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Google and Albertsons to use AI and cloud to enable more convenient grocery shopping services
Google LLC said today it’s partnering with the grocery and pharmacy firm Albertsons Companies Inc. to try to make food shopping easier and more convenient. Yet another showcase for Google Cloud’s capabilities, the partnership will make use of a wide gamut of its technologies. For example, under the multiyear partnership, the companies will use Google ...
Replicated open-sources its Outdated container image alert tool
On-premises software delivery company Replicated Inc. is beefing up security for cloud-native applications with the launch today of a free and open-source image version alert tool called Outdated that helps enterprises ensure they’re running the most up-to-date versions of their container images. Replicated sells tools that help enterprises run cloud-native apps based on Kubernetes on ...
Google bets on ‘systems on chip’ to power its next-generation cloud compute infrastructure
Google LLC today outlined its vision for custom computing, revealing that it’s planning to embrace a “systems on chip” infrastructure to replace the traditional motherboard as a key integration point. Up until now, Google has relied on the venerable motherboard to integrate the various components of its compute infrastructure, including its central processing units, networking, ...
Domo’s BI platform gets a dose of multicloud and embedded analytics
Business intelligence platform provider Domo Inc. announced a major platform update today at its Domopalooza 2021 virtual user conference, with enhanced embedded analytics capabilities, more multicloud proficiency and an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. among the highlights. The new capabilities in Domo Everywhere, the company’s hub of embedded analytics tools, are supposed to ...
Developer cloud provider DigitalOcean’s stock drops on its public market debut
Developer-focused cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean Inc. launched its initial public offering today, but if it was expecting a stock pop it will have been sorely disappointed, as its shares lost almost 10% of their value on its first day of trading. The company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ...
Cisco and HashiCorp partner to bring infrastructure-as-code to on-premises environments
Cisco Systems Inc. said today that it’s integrating its cloud-based data center management service Intersight with HashiCorp Inc.’s multicloud infrastructure automation service Terraform. The integration will provide Cisco Intersight customers with an easier way to automate and provision multicloud infrastructure using “infrastructure-as-code,” the companies said. “Our goal is to bridge the gap between private and ...
Amazon Web Services partners with Hugging Face to simplify AI-based natural language processing
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s partnering with an artificial intelligence startup called Hugging Face Inc. as part of an effort to simplify and accelerate the adoption of natural language processing models. Hugging Face is a New York City-based startup that’s best known for its Transformers library, which makes it easy to access a ...
Adobe smashes earnings targets with double-digit cloud growth
Adobe Inc. ended its first quarter in a strong way, posting record sales, easily beating market expectations on earnings and revenue and raising its targets for the full year. The design software company today reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.14 per share on revenue of $3.91 billion, up 26% ...
ServiceNow buys Intellibot to bring robotic process automation into its toolbox
ServiceNow Inc. is getting into the robotic process automation game. The cloud automation company announced today it will buy the Indian RPA startup Intellibot for an undisclosed price. It said the deal should close by the end of the second quarter. ServiceNow, led by its Chief Executive Bill McDermott (pictured), announced the acquisition at a time ...
Haystack debuts a modern intranet platform for remote workers
Self-styled communications and information hub provider Haystack Inc. is exiting stealth mode today with a modern intranet platform that it says can help enterprises to provide better security for their remote workforces. Haystack said it’s launching its “employee experience platform” after raising $8.2 million from investors that include Coatue Management, Greycroft, BoxGroup and Day One ...