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Nvidia’s A100 GPU sets new performance records in MLPerf benchmarks
Nvidia Corp.’s latest artificial intelligence platforms have once again set new performance records in the latest MLPerf benchmarks. MLPerf is an industry benchmarking group that was set up in May 2018 and is backed by companies that include Amazon.com Inc., Baidu Inc., Facebook Inc., Google LLC, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., as well as Harvard ...
Dell simplifies its ‘as-a-service’ offerings with Project APEX
Dell Technologies Inc. is expanding and unifying its “as-a-service” offerings with the launch of Project APEX, making it easier for customers and partners to access its hyperconverged infrastructure products, personal computers, networking, servers and storage products on-demand. Project APEX, announced late Tuesday night, unifies Dell’s existing Dell Technologies On Demand and Dell Technologies Cloud offerings under ...
Microsoft brings Kubernetes to edge devices with Project Akri
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new open-source project it has created called Akri that aims to make it easier to use Kubernetes with network edge devices. Akri, which stands for “A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the edge” and also means “edge” in Greek, is designed to expose what Microsoft calls lightweight “leaf devices” such as ...
Cybersecurity intelligence firm 4iQ raises $30M in new funding round
Cybersecurity intelligence startup 4iQ Inc. said today it’s planning to ramp up its investment in go-to-market activities after hiring Kailash Ambwani as its new chief executive and landing $30 million in a new round of funding. ForgePoint Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures led the Series C round, with participation from C5 Capital, Adara Ventures and ...
Splunk takes aim at multicloud, machine learning and observability
Splunk Inc. said during its annual Splunk .conf event today that it’s beefing up its suite of data analytics products so customers can accelerate their cloud transformations. Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform is an all-encompassing suite of analytics tools that help enterprises to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, available through its ...
Salesforce adds more apps to Work.com to help people work safely from anywhere
Salesforce.com Inc. said today it’s expanding its suite of Work.com tools that are designed to help companies get back to work safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Work.com was launched in May, providing technology tools and resources for businesses to reopen for work safely and get their employees accustomed to practicing social distancing in the work ...
NetApp updates its data management software for more ‘cloudlike’ experiences
Data storage provider NetApp Inc. is updating its software services to help its customers take better advantage of their hybrid information technology infrastructure. The company said today it’s adding new capabilities to its NetApp ONTAP data management software that provide deeper cloud integration, greater consolidation and continuous data availability, helping to simplify and improve the ...
Intel sells NAND flash memory business to SK Hynix for $9B
Intel Corp. late today announced a dea to sell its NAND flash memory business to South Korean firm SK Hynix Inc. for about $9 billion. The sale also includes Intel’s Solid State Drive business and its NAND flash factory in Dalian, China, but not the 3D Xpoint-based Intel Optane memory modules that make up the ...
Facebook open-sources its M2M-100 multilingual model to improve translation accuracy
Facebook Inc. said today it has made substantial progress in using machine learning to generate more accurate translations between any two languages without relying on English-language data. The company is open-sourcing its latest creation, M2M-100, which it says is the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages. Up until now, ...
Google’s Lending DocAI service uses AI to fast-track mortgage applications
Google LLC is jumping into the mortgage industry with the launch of a new artificial intelligence-driven cloud service aimed at helping lenders reduce the time it takes to process loan applications. Announced today, Lending DocAI is the latest addition to Google’s suite of Document AI tools that read and extract insights from various business documents. ...