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VMware picks up infrastructure automation provider SaltStack
VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the backdrop of VMware’s virtual VMworld event today, where the company debuted a number of new products. The terms of the acquisition aren’t being disclosed. SaltStack is ...
Arm rolls out new hardened chip designs for robots and smart cars
Arm Ltd. today introduced three new chip designs aimed at industrial robots and smart vehicles, including cars with fully or partially autonomous driving features. The products will put more wind behind the firm’s efforts to capture the growing market for so-called “internet of things” chips. Executives estimate that the auto and industrial automation segments alone ...
Arista Networks buys well-funded AI threat detection startup Awake Security
Arista Networks Inc. today said that it has entered into an agreement to buy Awake Security Inc., a network threat detection startup backed by nearly $80 million in funding. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Awake likely isn’t selling for lack of financial runway: It raised its latest funding round, a $30 million Series B investment, less ...
Veritas acquires Globanet to simplify Zoom and Slack data governance
Data management heavyweight Veritas Technologies LLC today said it’s acquiring Globanet, a Los Angeles firm whose software is used by enterprises to archive employee correspondence for legal purposes. The deal could cement Veritas’ position in the archiving software market, where Gartner Inc. ranks it as the largest player by revenue as of 2019. The terms of ...
Google makes AI Platform Prediction generally available with expanded features
Google LLC today announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service that allows companies to host machine learning models on its public cloud without having to worry about infrastructure management. Setting up a production-grade machine learning environment manually can be technically challenging even for large enterprises. With AI Platform Prediction, Google promises to ...
Report: Google will push for more major app developers to use its payment system
Google LLC is readying an update to the Play Store’s guidelines that will put more pressure on app developers to use its payment system, Bloomberg reported today. The report comes at a time when both Google and rival Apple Inc. are facing scrutiny over their rules concerning in-app purchases. Apple, which also requires developers to ...
Amazon builds custom AZ1 ‘neural edge’ processor into its new Echo speaker
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a new iteration of its bestselling Echo smart speaker with a custom-made artificial intelligence processor for processing voice commands. The Echo is the flagship device in Amazon’s eponymous family of smart speakers. Since introducing the product line in 2014, the company is estimated to have sold tens of millions of devices ...
Facebook’s Dynabench tool fools neural networks to advance AI research
Facebook Inc. today debuted Dynabench, a research tool it hopes will allow computer scientists develop more powerful natural-language processing models. To build cutting-edging neural networks that advance the state of the art, researchers need a way of comparing their models with those developed by peers. Accurate comparisons are a prerequisite to verifying that a new model is ...
Nuvia, led by Apple veterans, raises $240M to build better server processors
Nuvia Inc., a new chip startup with high-profile founders and investors, today said that it has picked up an additional $240 million in funding to support its effort to develop a “leading-edge” server processor. Nuvia exited stealth mode last year without a working product. Nevertheless, the launch attracted significant industry attention on account of the startup’s ...
Attentive nabs $230M round for its customer communications platform
Attentive Mobile Inc. today said that it has secured $230 million in funding to support the growth of its namesake cloud service, which enables businesses to communicate with customers via text messages. The startup closed the round at a $2.2 billion valuation. Lead investor Coatue was joined by more than a half-dozen other institutional backers, ...