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Watson chatbots on the way? IBM and Cisco enter AI-focused collaboration alliance
After years of cooperation in the data center market, IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are extending their partnership to enterprise collaboration. The vendors today announced plans to link their respective communications products with one another and add artificial intelligence functionality from Watson into the mix to automate certain tasks. Ed Brill, the head of ...
Red Hat’s monitoring service can now peer inside your containers
Containers are the main focus at Red Hat Inc.’s customer conference in San Francisco this week. The company kicked off the event yesterday by launching a tool for finding security issues in Docker instances, and is following up this morning with a new iteration of its IT monitoring service that can similarly identify maintenance issues. ...
AWS launches its ultra-scalable file storage service into general availability
After more than a year of testing and tweaking, Amazon Inc. is finally making its Elastic File System (EFS) generally available. The service is designed to provide an easy-to-use storage backend for the growing number of on-premise workloads that organizations are migrating to AWS. More specifically, Amazon built EFS to provide interoperability with traditional network-attached ...
Axcient targets non-production data with new converged storage service
For every important application in an organization, there are dozens of snapshots, clones and other non-production workloads bogging down the storage team. An estimated 70 percent of the enterprise IT budgets goes towards maintaining such information, a burden that Axcient Inc. promises to reduce considerably with its newest service. Fusion, as it’s called, is a cloud-based storage platform that provides ...
AWS finally comes to India
Better late than never. Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. and a month behind DigitalOcean Inc., Amazon Inc. has finally brought its cloud platform to India. The company will now provide infrastructure services to local organizations from two Availability Zones in busy Mumbai, which was incidentally also one of the first regional expansion destinations for Redmond. There ...
MongoDB Atlas is a new database management service for developers
MongoDB Inc. has a new plan for monetizing cloud-based deployments of its free document store. At a customer event in New York today, the company unveiled a managed service called Atlas that promises to help users to automate the administration of their off-premise database clusters for an affordable hourly rate. It’s a successor to MongoDB Cloud Manager, a ...
IoT PaaS startup Ayla bags $39M to supercharge connected devices
Bringing a smart appliance or an industrial sensor to market involves much more just assembling the hardware. Connected devices also require a server backend to handle management tasks such as diagnostics and patching, functionality that can be tremendously difficult to deliver on a large scale. As a result, manufacturers are recruiting the help of platform-as-a-service ...
Orbital Insight raises $20M to make satellite imagery more accessible
The commercial satellite industry captures a tremendous amount of imagery from the Earth’s surface, but there aren’t enough people to manually go through every picture. As a result, organizations miss out on a lot of valuable intelligence that could potentially help their executives make better decisions. The issue inspired former NASA engineer James Crawford to strike ...
What you missed in Big Data: Tech giants double down on analytics
Barely a week seems to pass without a web company open-sourcing some new tool for building artificial intelligence software. Last Thursday, it was Facebook Inc.’s turn. The social networking giant released a framework called Torchnet that contains five ready-made modules for training and testing deep learning algorithms. The modules are implemented in the form of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Acquisitions and APIs
M&A returned to the cloud ecosystem’s agenda last week after Red Hat Inc. bought a low-key outfit called 3scale Inc. that helps companies regulate how their web services are used. Its API management software makes it possible to control who can interact with an application, enforce usage restrictions and scan activity patterns for insights that ...