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Puppet launches new IT infrastructure security compliance service
DevOps automation firm Puppet Inc. is pitching a new service that helps companies ensure the information technology infrastructure they use is compliant with Center for Internet Security benchmarks. Puppet sells tools that developers use to automate the delivery and optimization of modern software applications. It’s best known for its flagship Puppet Enterprise platform that’s used ...
Xs:code and Redis Labs team up to help open-source software developers get paid
Xscode international Ltd., which does business as xs:code, said today it’s teaming up with Redis Labs Inc., developer of the popular Redis in-memory data structure store, to provide financial incentives for software developers. Xs:code’s platform provides open-source software developers with a way to make money from their code by offering premium features and support. The idea ...
Altran’s Code Detect AI tool helps developers discover bugs faster
Altran Technologies SA, a provider of digital design services owned by the French consulting firm Capgemini SE, today released a new tool for developers that uses artificial intelligence to predict the likelihood of bugs being found in software source code. The tools is called Code Detect AI, and it works by applying machine learning to historical ...
New Relic’s stock surges on strong earnings results
Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. saw its stock rise more than 12% in after-hours trading today after posting strong fourth-quarter results that surpassed expectations. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 14 cents per share on revenue of $160 million, up 21% from the same period a ...
Apple acquires virtual reality startup NextVR
iPhone maker Apple Inc. today confirmed to Bloomberg that it has acquired the virtual reality startup NextVR Inc., which specializes in creating VR video content based on events such as sports matches and musical performances. Apple didn’t say how much it was paying to acquire NextVR, but Bloomberg said the deal is expected to be valued ...
Report: TSMC to build new $10B computer chip factory in the U.S.
Computer chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning to build its first major factory in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The new facility would be based in Arizona and make five-nanometer transistor chips that are among the smallest, fastest and most power-efficient currently available. The Journal said TSMC’s plans ...
Nvidia debuts the A100, its most powerful graphics processor yet
Nvidia Corp. today launched a new, high-performance graphics processing unit for artificial intelligence training and inference based on its new Ampere architecture. The new chip, called the Nvidia A100, is said to provide a 20-times performance boost compared to its predecessor, the Volta GPU, making it ideal for AI, data analytics, scientific computing and cloud ...
Long-awaited Google Cloud VMware Engine service rolls out
Google LLC today announced the debut of its long-awaited Google Cloud VMware Engine service, which makes it easy for customers run their on-premises VMware applications on the company’s public cloud infrastructure platform. In a blog post introducing the new service, Google Cloud General Manager June Yang said VMware installations form the basis of many of ...
Cisco Systems delivers strong earnings results despite revenue declines
Networking company Cisco Systems Inc. delivered a strong fiscal third-quarter performanc today, beating Wall Street’s expectations despite seeing its revenue decline from the same period one year ago. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 79 cents per share on revenue of $12 billion, down 8% from a year ago. Analysts ...
Amazon’s new Arm-based Graviton2 instances hit general availability
Amazon Web Services Inc. says its homegrown Arm-based Graviton2 instances are now ready for prime time. The public cloud services giant Monday announced general availability of its sixth-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud General Purpose instances. The instances are called M6g and they run on the company’s new Graviton2 processor, which is a purpose-built chip designed by ...