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PagerDuty’s incident response platform can now learn from operations teams
PagerDuty Inc. today unveiled new automation features for its incident response platform that can learn from the administrators who use them. The platform, which has been adopted by Google Inc., Comcast Corp. and other large companies, is designed to help customers better deal with urgent incidents such as a data center outage. Organizations can configure ...
With new chips, AMD ratchets up competition with Intel and Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted two new chips, one for the enterprise and another targeting consumers, that will each one-up the competition in their respective markets. The company made the announcements at the Computex computing trade conference in Taipei. The event had earlier seen the introduction of new chips from Nvidia Corp. and Intel ...
Microsoft has deployed an underwater data center off the Scottish coast
Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick. The 40-foot-long capsule (pictured) holds 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. According Microsoft, the hardware inside is cooled by specialized radiators that use technology originally developed ...
BlackRock leads $93M round into scale-out storage startup Qumulo
Qumulo Inc., a fast-growing storage startup that counts three of the world’s five largest companies as customers, today announced that it has nabbed a sizable $93 million funding round to keep expanding. The investment saw the participation of several high-profile backers. Wall Street giant BlackRock Inc. led the round with participation from the Goldman Sachs ...
On-demand scooter startups Lime and Bird reportedly raising $450M
The on-demand transportation market is slowly but surely expanding beyond traditional ride-hailing to other modes of travel. One of the most promising new frontiers is app-based scooter sharing, a new but already fiercely competitive segment. A number of separate reports from today indicate that Bird Rides Inc. and LimeBike Inc., two of this segment’s leading ...
Intel teases a mammoth 28-core chip and new display technology at Computex
Following Nvidia Corp.’s introduction of a new robotics chip at Computex yesterday, Intel Corp. this morning gave attendees of the closely watched computing event a look at several of its own upcoming products. The announcement was headlined by a yet-unnamed, single-socket central processing unit for personal computers. It packs no fewer than 28 processing cores ...
Microsoft debuts supersized Azure instances for memory-hungry applications
Microsoft Corp. today previewed new Azure cloud instances geared towards large, demanding analytics applications that require a lot of memory to store the data they’re crunching. The update centers on the company’s M family of RAM-optimized virtual machines, or computers emulated in software. Microsoft is expanding the lineup with new instances that offer as much as 12 terabytes ...
Nvidia debuts Jetson Xavier, a versatile new AI chip for robots
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang today introduced Jetson Xavier, a new artificial intelligence chip developed with robots and drones in mind. The system-on-chip, debuted at the Computex conference in Taiwan, is touted as capable of punching well above its weight. According to Nvidia, a single Jetson Xavier provides the same amount of computing power as a “$10,000 workstation” ...
Report: Lyft on the verge of acquiring bike sharing startup Motivate for $250M
It appears that Lyft Inc. wants to follow Uber Technologies Inc. into the hotly contested bike sharing market. The Information reported today that the company is in talks to acquire Motivate Inc., a leading player in the nascent industry. The two sources who spoke to the publication said that the transaction could be worth upwards ...
Box buys automation startup Progressly to make enterprises more productive
Box Inc. this morning announced that it has acquired Progressly Inc., a low-key startup focused on helping companies become more productive through automation. The startup’s brand of automation is different than that of more familiar workflow tools such as IFTTT. Whereas the latter product and others like it are built to coordinate cloud services, for ...