Welcome to your weekly video meeting, InfoNews Hebdo, with this week’s recap of Meta’s Workplace shutting down, Huawei taking care of its warehouse, Europe not about to throw in the towel to Microsoft, tech investments from Select France and the first edition of the Cyber Sécu Expo .
As every week, Guy Hervier and Jean-François le Nilias analyze the IT news of the week.
For this new episode, our presenters decided to focus on a new scale TOP500 of the most powerful computers on the planet with a very American TOP 3, but Europeans well present in the Top 10. The most surprising presence is the first place in the ranking GREEN500 from EATthe prototype of the future European exascale supercomputer Jupiter, the construction of which was nevertheless delayed a year after the announcement of a postponement to 2025 of the French Rhea-1 processor from SiPearl.
Our presenters also return to stopping the one true service Target dedicated to businesses, its collaborative solution Working place.
Also in the news this week, Huawei’s storage refresh, AI coming to RHEL, big investments from American Tech in France (Microsoft, AWS, IBM) as part of Emmanuel Macron’s Choose France initiative, as well as birthdays and a brand new Paris trade show dedicated to cybersecurity, Cyber Security Expo !
BRIEFLY
Final round of applause for Workplace by Meta
>> Meta announces closure of Workplace in 2026
Huawei is renewing its data storage systems
Red Hat puts AI in RHEL
>> Red Hat Summit 2024: AI everywhere, even in RHEL!
Microsoft on the hot seat
>> Europe, China, Carbon… Gray clouds over Microsoft
>> Satya Nadella picks up the pen to instill a cyber culture within Microsoft
Choose a French full bag
>> Choose France 2024: 15 billion euros for AI and ecological transition
MAP
HPC continuity in the Top500
>> HPC: 63. TOP500 without much change
MEETING
Cyber Security Expo in Paris, June 11
>> Cyber Sécu Expo, the new cyber security meeting
UNUSUAL
IBM 360 celebrates its 60th anniversary and SQL 50
>> IBM System/360 is 60 years old!
>> 50 years of SQL