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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
HPE launches IoT platform to help companies manage their connected devices
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making waves at IoT World 2016 in Santa Clara this week with a new management system designed to help companies process information from the connected universe. The Universal Internet of Things Platform, as the offering is called, promises …
Amazon says its new deep learning library is 2x faster than Google’s
Though Amazon Inc. doesn’t make a habit of sharing its internally-produced software with the outside world, the large number of fellow web giants that had open-sourced their deep learning technology in recent months has apparently prompted a change of heart. And so …