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Amazon launches $2B fund to back sustainable technologies
Amazon.com Inc. today said it’s setting up a $2 billion venture capital fund to support companies developing sustainable technologies and services. The investment vehicle, called the Climate Pledge Fund, will advance Amazon’s previously announced effort to become net carbon-neutral by 2040. Amazon said it will back companies whose solutions can help it and other organizations reach their ...
Red Hat upgrades Ansible Automation Platform to streamline IT tasks
Red Hat today released a new version of the Ansible Automation Platform, its suite of software products for automating information technology management tasks. The suite is based on Ansible, a popular open-source tool maintained by Red Hat that lets administrators create scripts called playbooks to handle repetitive IT chores automatically. The Ansible Automation Platform also ...
Nvidia teams with Mercedes-Benz to build self-driving cars
In a boost for its automobile chip business, Nvidia Corp. today announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to build “software-defined” autonomous vehicles powered by its Drive AGX Orin system-on-chip. Nvidia senior director of automotive Danny Shapiro touted the deal as the biggest collaboration in Nvidia’s history during a press briefing. “We’re bringing the car up to the ...
Nebulon emerges from stealth to disrupt data center storage
Nebulon Inc., a startup led by a group of storage industry veterans, today emerged from stealth mode with a product it bills as the “first ground-breaking innovation for server-based primary storage” since hyperconverged infrastructure. Nebulon is led by Chief Executive Siamak Nazari, a onetime principal engineer with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s 3PAR array business. Chief ...
Bamboo Systems’ new Arm server runs microservices with 75% less electricity
Server startup Bamboo Systems Ltd. today debuted its new B1000N flagship system, which runs on Arm Ltd. processors and is described as needing up to 75% less power than machines that use Intel Corp. silicon. The vast majority of servers today ship with Intel central processing units. Arm chip designs are typically used to make CPUs ...
Nvidia unveils new GPU accelerator and Selene, a homegrown supercomputer
Nvidia Corp. early today announced a new accelerator card for servers and unveiled Selene, a supercomputer it recently added to its internal research cluster that ranks as the seventh most powerful system in the world. The announcements were made during the virtual ISC Digital high-performance computing event. First, the server accelerator: It’s essentially a new ...
HashiCorp launches new multicloud automation platform after $5.1B valuation
HashiCorp Inc., the infrastructure automation startup that received a $5.1 billion valuation in March, early today launched a new flagship product designed to make it more practical for enterprises to build multicloud environments. San Francisco-based HashiCorp provides a set of open-source tools for managing cloud infrastructure. They were downloaded millions of times last year and ...
Palantir raises $500M amid IPO filing reports
Palantir Technologies Inc., the controversial big data company co-founded by Peter Thiel, has raised $500 million amid reports that it’s readying to file for an initial public offering. The entirety of the funding was provided by Tokyo-based insurer Sompo Holdings Inc. As part of their collaboration, Sompo and Palantir will introduce a data platform based ...
Apple stands by controversial rejection of Hey email app update
Apple Inc. has stood by its controversial decision to reject an update to the Hey email app, citing App Store rules around in-app purchases. Hey is a new email service launched earlier this week on iOS by Basecamp Development Ltd. The firm attempted to release bug fixes shortly after the initial release but was informed ...
Microsoft acquires data model maker ADRM Software
Continuing an acquisition streak that has seen it buy at least three companies so far this year, Microsoft Corp. today announced the purchase of ADRM Software Inc., a firm focused on helping large enterprises manage their data. North Carolina-based ADRM has been in business for three decades. The firm sells data models, the blueprints enterprises ...