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Gartner’s IT predictions: DNA storage, expanding CIO roles and more
Research firm Gartner Inc. thinks traditional computing technologies will “hit a digital wall” by 2025. That’s just one forecast from Gartner that it released as part of a set of end-of-year predictions from its analysts exploring how enterprise technology could evolve in 2021 and beyond. The predictions were published against the backdrop of the firm’s virtual Gartner IT ...
Google Cloud will power Rhode Island’s new Virtual Career Center
Google LLC’s cloud unit has partnered with the state of Rhode Island to host a new career portal that will provide residents seeking employment with access to job openings and related resources. The portal will also include an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to help users find the openings that are most well-aligned with their skills. ...
HPE lands $160M+ deal to build 550-petaflop research supercomputer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has landed a contract to build a 550-plus-petaflop supercomputer that will support research initiatives across ten European countries. The project, announced today, is valued at more than $160 million. The supercomputer is dubbed LUMI and will be shared by Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and ...
MongoDB Atlas goes multicloud with new clustering capability
MongoDB Inc. has equipped its Atlas managed database service with a new capability that will enable customers to distribute a single database environment across multiple public clouds. It supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Google Cloud on launch. The multicloud cluster support, announced today, comes in a time when a growing number of ...
Justice Department sues Google for allegedly breaking antitrust law
The U.S. Justice Department today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google LLC accusing the company of harming the competition in the search and search advertising markets. Google has pushed back against the suit, calling it “deeply flawed” in a statement. The Justice Department is being joined by 11 state attorneys general in the litigation. Court documents seen ...
Microsoft launches Azure Space to power satellite projects
Microsoft Corp. today debuted Azure Space, a new portfolio of cloud products that will address use cases such as simulating satellite constellations and providing internet connectivity to edge devices. Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX Corp. to support parts of the portfolio. Azure Space is, as the name implies, aimed in large part at space sector customers. The portfolio ...
BetterCloud’s new Discover platform uncovers ‘shadow IT’ applications
BetterCloud Inc. debuted a new platform called Discover at its virtual Altitude event today that’s aimed at giving companies a clearer view of what software-as-a-service applications their workers are using. The platform is designed to combat so-called shadow IT, the phenomenon of employees using cloud services and other tech products without the information technology team’s ...
Startup Flex Logix launches ‘industry’s fastest’ edge AI inference chip
Semiconductor startup Flex Logix Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its InferX X1 artificial intelligence chip, which it says can provide up to 10 times more performance than Nvidia Corp. silicon in some scenarios. Flex Logix was formed in 2014 and has since raised $27 million from investors. The startup is led by Chief ...
Juniper Networks to buy virtual router maker 128 Technology for $450M
Juniper Networks Inc. today announced that it has inked a $450 million deal to acquire 128 Technology Inc., a Burlington, Massachusetts-based maker of a software platform for powering enterprise networks. The transaction is expected to wrap up in Juniper’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in late January. Founded in 2014, 128 Technology provides a software-based ...
The Citizen Browser Project launches to shed light on social media disinformation
A new initiative dubbed The Citizen Browser Project aims to use a custom-designed browser to illuminate how disinformation spreads on social media. The initiative, the Nieman Journalism Lab reported today, is being launched by The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how technology influences society. The Markup is teaming up with The New York Times to ...