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Dish to use Dell’s hardware and software to build its cloud-native Open RAN-based 5G network
Dish Network Corp. has chosen Dell Technologies Inc. as its primary hardware and software partner as it gears up to roll out what it says will be the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S. In an announcement today, the two companies said they have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement in which Dell ...
Google debuts new Tau VMs based on AMD’s 3rd Gen EPYC chips for scale-out workloads
Google LLC announced a new family of cloud virtual machines today that it said are ideal for customers operating the most demanding, scale-out workloads. The new Tau VMs are based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s latest 3rd Gen EPYC processors and Google reckons they provide a greater price-performance than any of its rival’s offerings. Scale-out ...
Google announces more partner apps and services at the edge of its cloud
Google LLC has announced a big expansion of a key initiative introduced at the tail end of last year to bring various partner services and applications to the network edge on Google Cloud. The company revealed today that more than 20 of its independent service vendor partners have agreed to deliver new apps and services ...
Facebook reverse-engineers deepfakes to detect the AI models used to create them
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has teamed up with Michigan State University on what the company says is a new and extremely accurate tool that can not only detect deepfakes but also understand how they were were built. Deepfakes is the name for fake, computer-manipulated images or videos that have been altered in hard-to-detect ...
Real-time analytics database startup Imply raises $70M in Series C funding
Self-styled “analytics-in-motion” database startup Imply Inc. has money to spend after securing a hefty $70 million in a new round of funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series C round, which included the participation of Tiger Global Management and existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital, bringing Imply’s total amount raised to $116 million. ...
Microsoft’s new West US 3 data center region is one of its most sustainable yet
Microsoft Corp. today said it has flipped the switch on what it says is one of its most sustainable data centers yet. The new West US 3 region located in El Mirage and Goodyear, Arizona, relies extensively on renewable energy sources and is said to be 100% carbon negative. The company said it chose Arizona for ...
Oracle’s stock falls on cloud investment plans despite solid earnings beat
Oracle Corp.’s stock is down today after the company offered lower quarterly revenue guidance stemming from a plan to make a massive increase in its cloud computing investment. The announcement followed a solid fourth quarter in which the database giant easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock ...
Box launches self-service content migration tools
Cloud content management provider Box Inc. is trying to welcome more enterprises into its fold by making its Box Shuttle migration tools more widely available. Box Shuttle, the company’s paid migration service, gives enterprises an easy way to move large amounts of content, together with its permissions and metadata, into the Box Content Cloud from ...
Edge data network startup Macrometa raises $20M in early-stage funding
Edge computing startup Macrometa Corp. said today it has closed on a new $20 million round of funding less than eight months after announcing its initial seed funding round. Pelion Venture Partners led the Series A round, which also saw participation from existing investors DNX Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, Partech Partners, Fusion Fund, Sway Ventures ...
Red Hat’s migration toolkit for virtualization helps move VMs into software containers
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. is getting into the application migration game with a new offering that helps companies move legacy apps based on traditional infrastructure to its container-focused Red Hat OpenShift platform. Most modern applications these days are built using software containers that host the components of those apps, enabling them to run ...