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Microsoft unveils Bing for Business and other new services at Ignite conference
Lining up an extensive array of announcements for this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the enterprise-oriented event by unveiling several dozen feature additions for key products, along with a few brand-new services that will likely go down as the main highlight. Bing for Business One of the most noteworthy products that Microsoft unveiled this morning ...
Microsoft improves Azure’s resiliency with new infrastructure expansion
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and other leading cloud platforms have safeguards against outages, but the risk of downtime can never be eliminated completely, because a disruption may be caused by human error, a power cut or any number of other factors. To help Azure customers better deal with such situations, Microsoft on Thursday introduced Availability Zones. It’s ...
Cisco debuts Intersight, a new cloud-based data center management service
Cisco Systems Inc. is expanding its lineup of data center management tools with a new cloud service designed to take some hassle out of day-to-day operations. Dubbed Intersight, the platform works with the company’s Unified Computing System and HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances. It augments the traditional on-premises management software that Cisco has offered for the systems until now. ...
Baidu launches a $1.5B autonomous vehicle fund
A week after Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed plans to invest in companies pursuing autonomous driving and other emerging vehicle technologies, another of Asia’s tech titans is joining the fray. Chinese search provider Baidu Inc. today announced the launch of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) fund for supporting autonomous driving projects. The company is looking ...
Manifold exits stealth to simplify how developers buy cloud services
Development teams increasingly employ cloud-based tools as part of their work — so much so, in fact, that managing all the different services used for a project can often be a major hassle. Arigato Machine Inc., which conducts business under the Manifold name, has spent the past year and a half working on a solution. Today, ...
Amazon is reportedly developing Alexa-powered smart glasses
Amazon.com Inc. is actively working to get Alexa on more devices beyond its own Echo smart speakers. The company recently released a development kit to help other hardware makers make use of the voice assistant, and now it’s reportedly preparing to take the effort to a whole new level. Insiders have told the Financial Times that Amazon is building a ...
HubSpot acquires chatbot development startup Motion AI
Just two months after buying Kemvi Inc. to give customers access to better market intelligence, HubSpot Inc. has picked up another startup. The marketing automation giant this morning announced the acquisition of Motion AI Inc., a two-year-old chatbot development specialist. With the help of about $700,000 in seed funding, the startup has created a service ...
DigitalOcean launches Spaces, a much-needed object storage service
DigitalOcean Inc. is marking its seventh product launch in 18 months. Following an extensive beta testing phase, the well-funded cloud provider today rolled out an object storage service called Spaces. DigitalOcean Chief Executive Officer Ben Uretsky hailed it as “the most important product we’ve released since Droplet,” the startup’s flagship virtual machine family. The reason ...
HashiCorp’s new Sentinel tool creates corporate ‘policy guardrails’
Infrastructure automation provider HashiCorp Inc. is doubling down on policy enforcement. The startup, which counts Pinterest Inc. and Barclays PLC among its clients, today introduced a framework called Sentinel to help companies enforce internal compliance policies. It was developed to address the inherent risks involved in managing a firm’s technology infrastructure. Tools such as HashiCorp’s ...
Google’s natural language processing service gets smarter
Like other web giants, Google LLC is investing a lot of resources into recruiting artificial intelligence researchers. Improving its developer services is one of the ways in which the company has been putting that talent to use. Today, the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary released two new features for the Google Cloud Natural Language application programming interface to help customers ...