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Harness integrates its continuous software delivery platform with Amazon ECS
Continuous software delivery startup Harness Inc. said today it’s integrating its platform with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Container Service in a move that will enable users to run applications in Docker containers with less scripting and redundancy. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that rivals the better known open-source Kubernetes service. ...
In shot at Microsoft, Amazon announces open-source Babelfish database translation tool
Amazon Web Services Inc. declared war on its rivals Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today with the launch of a new service that makes it easier to migrate Structured Query Language databases to the AWS cloud. Announced during Amazon’s virtual AWS re:Invent 2020 event, the new service is called Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. It’s meant ...
Amazon brings machine learning to industry, developers and contact centers
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s trying to embed more intelligence into the industrial sector with a number of new machine learning tools and services aimed at helping customers monitor their workers, the machines and equipment they operate, and the environments they work in. The new machine learning services, plus a range of others, were ...
HPE and NetApp surprise Wall Street with strong earnings
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and NetApp Inc. both managed to surprise Wall Street today, posting strong quarterly financial results that beat analysts’ expectations, even as the market for data center hardware continues to decline. HPE also raised a few eyebrows with the news that it’s planning to relocate its corporate headquarters from San Jose, California, to ...
To battle Red Hat, SUSE completes its acquisition of Rancher Labs
Open-source enterprise software giant SUSE Group today said it has completed the acquisition of Kubernetes management startup Rancher Labs Inc. The deal should put SUSE in a better position to take on rival IBM Corp.’s Red Hat in the fast-growing Kubernetes market, and it may also help it on its way toward its goal of doubling its ...
As AWS re:Invent opens, Amazon debuts first-ever macOS instances on its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. late Monday night introduced what it says are the first natively run, cloud-based macOS instances on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud platform. The new macOS instances were announced during the opening night of AWS re:Invent 2020 virtual event by Amazon EC2 Vice President Dave Brown (pictured), and they give Apple developers a way ...
Google Anthos now available on bare-metal servers
Google LLC announced today that its hybrid cloud application development platform Anthos is now available on bare-metal servers, giving customers more choice on how and where to run their hybrid cloud workloads. Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud application development platform that went live last year. Running atop the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration software, it’s designed ...
Google’s DeepMind solves the ‘protein folding problem,’ one of biology’s biggest challenges
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind Technologies said today it has solved a 50-year-old “grand challenge” in biology by creating software that can predict the atomic structure that proteins will fold into in a matter of days. The breakthrough could pave the way for a better understanding of diseases and new drug discoveries. DeepMind’s software, known ...
Nvidia launches Monai framework to speed up AI healthcare training
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up its efforts in healthcare with today’s launch of its Medical Open Network for AI, or Monai, an open-source framework that’s used to train artificial intelligence-powered models for medical imaging. Monai is based on the open-source PyTorch framework that was first created by Facebook Inc.’s research group. PyTorch is a framework ...
Iguazio’s data science platform achieves ‘AWS Outposts Ready’ designation
Data science company Iguazio Systems Ltd. hit a new milestone today, announcing that its platform has been certified to run on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, AWS Outposts. Iguazio sells a “serverless” data platform-as-a-service product that creates real-time intelligence for applications that run at the network edge or on public clouds and ...