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AMD challenges Intel with Bristol Ridge Pro chips for business PCs
Even if workers are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to be productive, there’s still plenty demand for business PCs that can handle more advanced tasks — most powered by Intel Corp. chips. Now, the chip giant can expect serious competition. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched the newest iteration of its enterprise-oriented PRO processors. The ...
Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft announces new data centers in France
Microsoft Corp. Satya Nadella (above) today revealed the next step of his company’s plan to expand its cloud computing ambitions, this time in Europe. At a press event in Dublin today, the software giant said it intends to open a set of cloud data centers in France that will provide Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 services ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop and more AI
Organizations are moving more and more of their analytics workloads to the cloud in a bid to reduce operating expenses. One of the vendors trying to capitalize on the trend is Microsoft Corp., which last week rolled out a set of major improvements to its managed Hadoop service in an effort to attract more enterprise ...
What you missed in Cloud: Google, Amazon chart global expansion
After years of trailing Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in the cloud market, Google believes that it’s time for a change of strategy. The search giant last week launched an ambitious reorganization effort that is set to see its infrastructure- and software-as-a-service portfolios move under a dedicated division along with several other related products. The ...
Demandbase launches AI-powered tool to help marketers find new leads
Salesforce.com Inc. isn’t the only cloud vendor that is infusing artificial intelligence functionality into its offerings. Today, Demandbase Inc. is following the software-as-a-service giant’s lead and launching a new business graph for its business-to-business marketing platform that uses machine learning algorithms to help users to find leads faster. Dubbed DemandGraph, the tool is based on ...
What you need to know about Nutanix’s blockbuster IPO
Technology firms that have been holding off their initial public offerings of stock for fear of lackluster investor interest may be rethinking those plans today. The latest tech company to go public, the cloud computing company Nutanix Inc., saw its shares jump 66 percent from their initial offering price when trading opened today. Originally expected to ...
Aiming to supercharge AI, Amazon launches cloud service powered by graphics chips
Confirming rumors rumors from a few weeks ago, Amazon.com Inc. today unveiled a new cloud computing service for artificial intelligence and other data-intensive applications. The new addition to Amazon Web Services’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is based on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from Nvidia Corp., which increasingly are used in the branch of AI called deep learning neural networks ...
Cloudflare launches two new services for dealing with traffic surges
A few days after Akamai Technologies Inc. launched a service for speeding up media-heavy websites, CloudFlare Inc. is upping the ante by rolling out two new administrative tools to its rivaling content delivery network. The first addition is a security system called Traffic Control that promises to help companies make their online properties more resilient ...
Unicorn sighting: Apttus raises $88M at $1.3B valuation, launches AI called Max
It’s a big day for Apttus Corp. and its cloud-based billing automation. The company, which helps organizations prepare invoices and contracts, today raised a hefty $88 million investment from a group of backers led by UAE-based fund GII. The funding brings its valuation to $1.3 billion, making it a new unicorn. Apttus will now shift gears ...
Contrast Security raises $16M to help applications defend against attacks
By their nature, the traditional security tools that organizations use to protect their in-house workloads don’t lend themselves too well to modern services deployed in the cloud or inside containers. As a result, chief information officers are turning to new-generation breach prevention providers such as Contrast Security Inc., which raised $16 million in funding today ...