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Google enhances the AI behind its computer vision services
As of this week, companies that rely on Google Inc.’s cloud platform to process their media assets should see a noticeable improvement in results. The search giant on Thursday announced several enhancements to its object recognition services aimed at increasing the accuracy with which they can identify and categorize items. Most of the changes affect Google’s Cloud ...
LinkedIn open-sources its internal tools for dealing with outages
LinkedIn’s tradition of sharing internal technologies with the developer community is going as strong as ever under Microsoft Corp.’s wing. Its latest contribution is a pair of incident management tools designed to ease the task of responding to technical issues. In a blog post published this morning, LinkedIn engineer Daniel Wang wrote that they were originally ...
Microsoft confirms it’s buying cloud automation startup Cloudyn
Three weeks after picking up Israeli cybersecurity specialist Hexadite Ltd. for a reported $100 million, Microsoft Corp. is marking yet another acquisition in the country. The technology giant today announced that it has entered an agreement to buy Cloudyn Software Ltd., a startup focused on helping organizations manage their off-premises infrastructure. Insiders first leaked word of the deal ...
Accenture doubles down on connected devices with Intrepid acquisition
Harnessing the countless connected devices that are expected to come online in coming years will pose a major technical challenge to enterprises. For Accenture plc, this represents an equally large consulting opportunity. The professional services giant stepped up its efforts to monetize the connected universe today by acquiring Intrepid LLC, a Boston-based digital agency that makes software ...
Salesforce debuts new AI services for developers
Salesforce.com Inc. is the latest tech giant looking to capitalize on the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence among developers. At an event in San Francisco today, the company unveiled a set of AI services designed to ease the creation of applications on top of its customer relationship management platform. They extend the Einstein lineup of machine ...
Demisto’s incident management bot can now learn from human security pros
Many modern security tools employ machine learning to identify patterns in hacker behavior and deploy appropriate countermeasures. Today, Demisto Inc. is taking it a step further with a new release of its incident management platform that also mixes in lessons from human network protection professionals. The capability, which the startup touts as an industry first, ...
Akamai harnesses its massive online reach to fight hackers
Akamai Technologies Inc. is working to expand its cybersecurity portfolio in a bid to address companies’ growing concerns about hacking. The newest addition to the lineup is Enterprise Threat Protector, a cloud-based platform aimed at fending off attacks that exploit the Domain Name System at the foundation of the web. As one of the world’s largest provider ...
Sumo Logic raises a hefty $75M to tame machine-generated data
A large portion of the data in companies’ possession comes from automated logging mechanisms deployed throughout their infrastructure, which raises the need for a different kind of analytics tool than those used to process information produced by people. Sumo Logic Inc. is one of the providers working to address this requirement. In a bid to ...
Box and Microsoft deepen partnership with a focus on data centers, AI
Over the years, the relationship between Box Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has evolved beyond pure rivalry to include a measure of cooperation as well. They still compete with one another in file-sharing, but at the same time they provide product integrations to support joint customers. The companies announced today that they have further deepened their partnership by ...
Cloudflare launches an app store for websites, plus a $100M developer fund
Cloudflare Inc. is increasingly looking beyond the content delivery market for growth opportunities. The provider today pulled back the curtains on Cloudflare Apps, a new marketplace where customers of its platform can access third-party services for enhancing their sites. It’s based on technology that the company obtained through the acquisition of a startup called Eager ...