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Amazon S3 Object Lambda makes it easy to process same data for different apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new tool for customers that makes it simple to prepare the same dataset for multiple application requirements. The S3 Object Lambda tool works by retrieving data from the Amazon S3 Simple Storage service and automatically processing and transforming it for each app that needs to use it. AWS Chief ...
Google debuts A2 VMs powered by Nvidia A100 GPUs, its largest cloud instances yet
Google LLC announced general availability of a new family of Compute Engine A2 virtual machines today that are based on Nvidia Corp.’s Ampere A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units. The new VMs are the first in the world to pack 16 of Nvidia’s A100 GPUs into a single VM, making them the largest single-node GPU ...
PagerDuty reports solid earnings but stock falls on wider projected loss
Shares of incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. fell almost 5% in after-hours trading today after it projected a net loss for the next year that’s larger than Wall Street’s view. That came despite a strong fiscal fourth-quarter performance that saw the company beat expectations on earnings and revenue. The company reported a loss before certain ...
Samsung may not launch a new Galaxy Note this year as chip supply problems bite
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has become the latest technology giant to voice its concerns over a global shortage of semiconductor chips. The company, which is one of the largest chipmakers and consumer electronics firms in the world, said Wednesday that it’s struggling to address a “serious imbalance” in its chip supply. Samsung may even decide ...
In new developer preview, Android 12 gets more performance and security improvements
Not even a month after Google LLC released the first developer preview of Android 12, the company is sharing its second, updated preview of the mobile operating system. Announced today, the Android 12 Developer Preview 2 is said to be the next milestone build in this year’s release. It will give developers a chance to ...
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse release brings machine learning to the masses
Database giant Oracle Corp. announced a new release of its cloud-based Autonomous Data Warehouse service today, adding new capabilities that analysts say will help democratize machine learning. Overall, the release transforms Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse from a complex ecosystem of products into an “intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop experience” for data analysts and business users alike, the company ...
AI model optimization startup OctoML raises $28M Series B round
Machine learning acceleration startup OctoML Inc. has secured yet more funding with a new $28 million round that brings its total amount raised to $47 million. Today’s Series B round was led by Addition, with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners. It follows a $15 million Series A round in March ...
Dell debuts refreshed PowerEdge server line based on AMD’s new EPYC processors
Hot on the heels of the Monday launch of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s new, third-generation “Milan” EPYC 7003 processors for data center servers, Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a refreshed line of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers based on those new chips. The new Dell EMC PowerEdge servers will enable adaptive compute capabilities in a broad ...
Amazon Web Services debuts new Graviton-powered EC2 computing instances
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding to its family of Graviton-powered EC2 instances that serve as workhorses for high-performance computing demands. Announced today, the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances are said to pack twice as much memory per virtual CPU as Amazon’s older, memory-optimized R6g instances. That makes them ideal for “memory-hungry ...
PatSnap lands $300M late-stage round for AI-based innovation intelligence platform
A self-styled “innovation intelligence” platform provider called PatSnap Ltd. is looking to capitalize on enterprises’ unquenchable thirst for artificial intelligence-powered analytics and insights after closing on a huge $300 million round of funding. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment led the Series E round, which also saw the participation of existing investors CITIC ...