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Baidu announces Quantum Leaf, a cloud-based quantum infrastructure service
China’s Baidu Inc. announced a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf today that it says is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. Baidu is one of a number of big technology firms racing to develop quantum computing, which relies on quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. The ...
Granulate debuts software that uses AI to speed up data center server performance
Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. said today it’s debuting a real-time optimization solution for computer servers that enables companies to get more performance and higher throughput from their data center infrastructure at much lower costs. The company, which raised $12 million in a Series A round of funding in April, says it’s trying to tackle the problem ...
Intel launches new chips to boost AI performance at the edge
Intel Corp. announced a new series of processors today that it says will provide more advanced artificial intelligence, real-time, security and functional safety benefits for “internet of things” and edge workloads. The company said its new 11th Gen Intel Core processors, the Intel Atom x6000E Series and the Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J ...
Microsoft expands Azure Arc’s hybrid cloud capabilities for better communications
Microsoft Corp. said today at its Ignite 2020 virtual conference that it’s extending the hybrid cloud capabilities of its Azure cloud platform to make it easier for customers to run their applications and workloads in any environment, across on-premises data centers, multiple clouds and the network edge. In addition, the company announced a new communications service built ...
Microsoft fuels low-code app development with Power Platform updates
Microsoft Corp. announced today at its Ignite 2020 virtual event a host of new capabilities in its Power Platform that are designed to help companies become more resilient and weather today’s coronavirus-related economic challenges. Microsoft’s Power Platform is a suite of three products, namely Power BI, PowerApps and Power Automate. They can be used to ...
Microsoft aims to enable the future of work with new Teams features and devices
Microsoft Corp. is doubling down on what it says will be the “future of work” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At its Ignite 2020 virtual event today, it announced a host of new products and services it says will help people to become more productive, whether they’re working remotely or simply being careful to maintain social ...
Google brings Anaplan’s business planning tools to its cloud platform
Google LLC said today it’s teaming up with the business planning software provider Anaplan Inc., in a partnership that will help that company’s customers take advantage of its unique cloud capabilities. Anaplan sells an enterprise platform of the same name that’s used for business planning. Its platform is centered on an in-memory database and calculation ...
Deep learning accelerator DeepCube raises $7M in new round
Israeli deep learning startup DeepCube Ltd., which has built software to accelerate the process of running machine learning models in the data center and on edge devices, said today it has raised $7 million in a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by Awz Ventures with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies ...
PagerDuty gets a dose of automation to help resolve issues more proactively
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. said today it’s adding new machine learning and automation capabilities to its digital operations management platform in what it calls its biggest set of upgrades in years. The updates will enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by proactively preventing service interruptions and reducing the time it takes ...
Ionir exits stealth with the promise of instant data mobility for Kubernetes apps
Container-based storage and data management provider Ionir is exiting stealth mode today with a new platform it says can better support Kubernetes workloads in private cloud and multicloud deployments. The company is backed by an $11 million Series A funding round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners, with participation from C5 Capital. Ionir has built a ...