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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. ...
In a shot at Oracle, Amazon touts 300,000 database migrations
In a new shot at rival Oracle Corp., Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that more than 300,000 databases have now been migrated to its cloud platform using the AWS Database Migration Service. Amazon DMS was launched way back in March 2016, giving Amazon’s customers an easy way to migrate their traditional relational databases, nonrelational ...
Europe unveils 4 new AI supercomputers based on Nvidia architecture
Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. said today the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking is using its accelerated computing platforms and architecture to build four new supercomputers that will propel Europe to the forefront of supercomputing research. EuroHPC is a joint collaboration among governments and the European Union aimed at building one of the world’s most ...
DOE, West Virginia adopt Google Cloud services
Google LLC today said it has forged a five-year deal to provide the U.S. Department of Energy access to a “broad range” of Google Cloud technologies, on top of another deal to have 22,000 state of Virginia employees use the newly rebranded Google Workspace tools formerly known as G Suite. The deals are more big customer wins for Google ...
Oracle launches high-performance cloud database service
Oracle Corp. today announced a new service that’s designed to help customers run their most challenging transaction processing and data analytics projects in the cloud, without making any changes to those apps. It’s an important development, Oracle says, because many of its customers have been reluctant to offload their most important workloads to the cloud ...
Cohesity partners with AWS on cloud-based data management
Data management software company Cohesity Inc. said today it’s creating a new cloud-based data management-as-a-service offering in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. The new offering is aimed at enterprises and midsized businesses that want an easier way to back up, secure, govern and analyze their data. Cohesity said it will manage the DMaaS offering ...
With Zapps, Zoom brings popular apps into its ubiquitous meetings
Zoom Video Communications Inc. said today it’s planning to enable users to integrate third-party applications within its video collaboration platform by the end of the year. The new “Zapps” are applications that can be used directly within Zoom, thereby eliminating the need to switch among multiple apps during meetings. The idea is to boost productivity and ...