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AI takes center stage: AWS debuts SageMaker Studio, CodeGuru, Kendra and more
Kicking re:Invent into high gear, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled a massive array of artificial intelligence solutions spanning more than a half-dozen product categories, from code debugging to cybersecurity and contact center automation. And that’s on top of a formidable lineup of infrastructure announcements. The new AI offerings fill in key pieces of the ...
AWS wins multiyear cloud and machine learning deal with Fox
Media giant Fox Corp. will use Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, as well as managed offerings such as the provider’s SageMaker machine learning platform, to support broadcast operations. AWS announced the deal at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today alongside a raft of new product releases, many focused on machine learning. The contract ...
AWS brings Nvidia T4 GPUs to Outposts for AI inference and rendering
Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its AWS Outposts platform with the addition of G4 instances powered by Nvidia Corp.’s T4 graphics processing unit. Outposts enables organizations to deploy AWS infrastructure in their own data centers and have the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary manage the hardware on their behalf. It’s aimed at companies that wish to ...
Cerner taps AWS to power new AI healthcare platform
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that Cerner Corp., one of the world’s biggest providers of information technology for healthcare organizations, is standardizing machine learning workloads on its public cloud. Missouri-based Cerner has about 24,000 employees and closed 2018 with $5.4 billion in sales. The company sells an electronic health record management system called Millennium, ...
Pitching open-source monitoring, Logz.io debuts Cloud Observability Platform
The open-source ecosystem has a wealth of free monitoring tools that companies can use to track the health and security of their infrastructure. But deploying those tools at scale is sometimes complex to the point of being a barrier to adoption, an issue Logz.io Inc. is trying to solve. The recently funded startup today debuted the ...
After merger, Sisense brings more Periscope Data tech into business intelligence platform
Well-funded business intelligence startup Sisense Inc. absorbed peer Periscope Data Inc. this year in a merger that bumped its annual revenues above the $100 million mark. Today, the company is continuing the corporate integration story by bringing more of Periscope’s technology into its platform. Sisense’s platform enables business users to turn information like sales records ...
AWS goes quantum: New Braket service offers on-demand quantum hardware
In 2010, Amazon Web Services Inc. marked April Fools Day with a tongue-in-cheek blog post announcing it had developed a technology seen as science fiction at the time: a quantum computer. Fast forward to 2019, the company is preparing to roll out a real quantum computing service for its cloud customers. The newly unveiled Amazon ...
Musical keyboards and AI on Kubernetes: AWS fires off first salvo of re:Invent updates
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s big re:Invent conference officially kicked off today in Las Vegas and the cloud giant has wasted no time today, announcing an array of services and features headlined by new artificial intelligence offerings. Amazon Transcribe Medical First up is Amazon Transcribe Medical, an AI transcription service that enables medical professionals to dictate notes ...
PagerDuty doubles down on AWS with Cloud Operations services
PagerDuty Inc. joined the crowd of tech firms announcing new solutions at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today by introducing PagerDuty for Cloud Operations, which promises to help AWS customers catch issues in their cloud infrastructure faster. San Francisco-based PagerDuty went public in April. The company provides a cloud service that ...
Blaming Qualcomm, Intel reveals it took multibillion-dollar loss on modem unit sale
Intel Corp. took a swipe at Qualcomm Inc. in a court filing today, blaming the company’s controversial business practices for forcing it to exit the mobile modem market. Intel sold its mobile chip unit, related intellectual property and equipment to Apple Inc. in July for $1 billion. The transaction came shortly after the iPhone maker struck ...