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ServiceNow launches a cloud service for troubleshooting the Internet of Things
For a company that makes connected medical devices or industrial manufacturing equipment, handling support tickets takes much more than a help desk team trained in answering frequently asked questions. The troubleshooting process often requires performing complex technical analysis that is normally beyond the ability of the average care representative, an issue ServiceNow Inc. promises to ...
LinkedIn open-sources Ambry, its ultra-scalable object store for media files
Though the profile pictures, company logos and other images that litter LinkedIn often blend into the background without receiving much attention, they take up a significant portion of the user’s view. And added up across the many billions of pages that the social network hosts, the amount of media involved far exceeds the capacity of ...
Dell says its new AI-powered antivirus can block 99 percent of malware
Dell Inc. usually isn’t the first vendor that comes up when security is discussed, but it boasts a broad arsenal of endpoint protection tools that are widely used in the enterprise. And now the company hopes to win over small- and midsize organizations too with the introduction of a new specialized antivirus that incorporates artificial ...
What you missed in Big Data: Enter Parsey McParseface
There’s still a long way to go before complex human traits like humor can be properly emulated by artificial intelligence, but Alphabet Inc. is already starting to inject wit into the research effort. The company last week published a machine learning model called “Parsey McParseface” that can automatically map out the linguist structure of any ...
What you missed in Cloud: The competition reaches new frontiers
The fight for cloud dominance went global last week when Microsoft Corp. announced that it’s launching four new data centers in Canada and South Korea to better serve local Azure users. Redmond is targeting two groups in particular: Organizations with latency-sensitive applications that can’t wait for requests to travel back and forth from an offshore ...
AtScale raises $11M from Comcast and friends for its Hadoop BI platform
During funding negotiations, the ball is usually in the court of the startup at the receiving end of the transaction. But in the case of AtScale Inc.’s latest financing round, it was investors who came knocking on the door to buy a stake, according to founder and chief executive Dave Mariani. The firm announced today ...
Successful Acacia IPO raises new hope for tech startups eyeing stock market
Acacia Communications Inc.’s stock price is up more than 30 percent on its first day of trading in what marks the technology sector’s first successful public offering of the year. For the network equipment maker, the occasion is made all the more memorable by the fact that it managed to raise a hefty $103.5 million ...
Report: Amazon is investing in a new submarine Internet cable
It takes much more than a local data center to extend a public cloud like Amazon Inc.’s into a new market. The undertaking also requires a robust networking backbone capable of linking the facility to the rest of AWS reliably, securely and with as little latency as possible. As a result, it doesn’t come entirely ...
Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft expands Azure to Canada and South Korea
Since it committed to matching Amazon Inc. on infrastructure prices three years ago, Microsoft Corp. quietly broadened the effort by creating homegrown versions of advanced AWS services. And judging by the locations of the four new cloud data centers that were announced on the Azure blog this week, Redmond has been paying attention to its ...
Syncsort adds native support for Spark and Kafka to help users modernize their analytics environments
A 2015 survey from Databricks Inc. found that Spark is quickly replacing MapReduce in Hadoop deployments, but adoption could be increasing even faster if not for the difficulty of upgrading. Syncsort Inc. is moving to ease the task for users of its DMX-h tool today by adding native integration with the engine that removes the ...