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The start of a new era? Google natively integrates its public cloud with OpenStack
Linking on- and off-premise infrastructure will become much easier for OpenStack adopters once they upgrade to the new version of the platform that launched last week, at least if they plan on using Google’s public cloud. The Alphabet Inc. subsidiary has contributed a homegrown block storage driver to the release that makes it possible to ...
What you missed in Big Data: The rise of deep learning
The artificial intelligence craze continues to spread in the enterprise market. Last week saw Nvidia Inc. add its name to the long list of vendors trying to monetize the trend by introducing a new graphical processing unit specifically designed to run deep learning algorithms. The Tesla P100, as the chip is called, is the biggest ...
What you missed in Cloud: The operating systems of the future
Since the initial launch of OpenStack in 2010, the cloud ecosystem has taken a small break from its usual hustle and bustle every six months to welcome the platform’s newest bi-annual release. Last week saw the tradition repeat itself once again following the introduction of Mitaka, the 13th iteration of the project, which brings a ...
LinkedIn releases its internal Hadoop optimization tool
Less than two weeks after open-sourcing its internal application testing system, LinkedIn Inc. is expanding its open-source software portfolio once again with the release of Dr. Elephant, a performance optimization engine designed to help speed up Hadoop queries. The software was developed to spare the social networking giant’s data science team from having to manually instruct ...
Rackspace bolsters private cloud lineup with new on-premise OpenStack offering
Six years after its initial release, OpenStack is proving to be an attractive alternative to traditional data center management software for many organizations. But not every enterprise that would potentially be interested in adopting the platform can put together an implementation by itself, a segment Rackspace Inc. set out to tap this week by introducing the option ...
In blow to Intel’s data center reign, Google endorses IBM’s Power chips
Seeing how a large number of today’s most important data center trends originated from the web-scale crowd, Intel Corp. better take note of Google’s newly publicized interest in IBM Power chips. At an event hosted by Big Blue in San Jose yesterday, the Alphabet Inc. division revealed that it’s teamed up with Rackspace Inc. to ...
Sequoia Capital leads $15M round into marketing analytics startup Mintigo
It’s not easy being a marketer in the business-to-business world. Whereas effectively promoting a consumer product only necessities an understanding of the major demographic groups that make up a brand’s customer base, achieving the same success in the corporate world requires knowing the specific needs of every single target organization. Private equity heavyweight Sequoia Capital ...
IBM to bring Watson’s cognitive capabilities to SAP customers
IBM Corp. is turning to its partners for help with widening the adoption of Watson in the enterprise. As part of the effort, the company this morning announced an alliance with SAP SE that will see the capabilities of the cognitive computing platform made available for users of the latter’s flagship S/4HANA business software suite. The bundle includes ...
Ericsson buys hyperscale startup NodePrime to accelerate its data center push
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson AB is not the first vendor that comes to mind when thinking about the hyperscale movement, but that may change in the coming years if its push into the data center market succeeds. The company kicked its effort into high gear today with the acquisition of NodePrime Inc., a low-key ...
Oracle’s new Exadata X6 Database Machine breaks the petabyte barrier
Following closely behind announcements from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Dell Inc., Oracle Corp. today introduced an upgraded iteration of its hardware based on the latest-generation Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 chip series that was announced last month. The new Exadata X6 Database Machine can also be fitted with the eight-terabyte helium hard drives that hit the market ...