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Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato
Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com Inc.’s Lex. In a blog post today, Uber’s AI research team explained that Plato is designed for building, training and deploying prototype ...
Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing
British semiconductor design firm Arm Ltd. today pitched a new licensing option without any upfront costs for startups and other smaller companies that want to build central processing units and systems-on-a-chip using its chip blueprints. Intellectual property licensing isn’t the most exciting topic, but in an age when companies are increasingly looking at building their own silicon ...
With new application service, Pivotal lets developers go ‘all-in’ on Kubernetes
Pivotal Software Inc. is doubling down on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration service with the alpha release today of a new version of its Pivotal Application Service. Pivotal Application Service is a software application development platform based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provides a range of clouds, developer frameworks and app services to ...
Symantec beefs up its cloud access tools to support ‘zero-trust’ security
Cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. is enhancing the cloud access controls in its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform today, giving enterprises a way to enforce so-called zero-trust security policies that govern how their cloud-based information technology systems are accessed. Zero trust is a security model that’s proving to become more and more popular with enterprises. It allows them to shift ...
Cohesity launches Runbook app to automate cloud workflow migration
Data storage company Cohesity Inc. has created a new application that gives enterprises a better template for moving workloads between on-premises information technology environments and the public cloud. The new app announced today, Cohesity Runbook, helps companies automate the process of moving data and workloads via a drag-and-drop graphical interface that simplifies what has always been ...
IBM open-sources Kabanero tools for collaborating on Kubernetes apps
IBM Corp. today pitched a new open-source project intended to help architects, developers and operations teams collaborate more closely on building Kubernetes-based software applications. The project, introduced at the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference in Portland, Oregon, is called Kabanero. It comprises a number of new open-source tools, including Appsody, Codewind and Razee, combined with existing tools such ...
Behavioral data company Near lands $100M funding round
Big data analytics company Near Pte Ltd., which owns what it says is the world’s largest datasets on people’s behavior, is gearing up for expansion after landing $100 million in a new round of funding. The investment announced today was made by London-based private equity firm Greater Pacific Capital. It brings Near’s total funding to ...
Druva acquires CloudLanes to bring cloud-native data protection to the edge
Cloud data protection and management company Druva Inc. today said it’s acquiring CloudLanes Inc. to help it expand into edge computing. CloudLanes enables its customers to store data safely onsite while still benefiting from the business continuity, short recovery windows and mobility its software-as-a-service model provides. Founded in 2008 in Pune, India, Druva has carved out ...
Microsoft systems integrator Avanade to establish Adobe practice
Adobe Inc. says it’s teaming up with Microsoft Corp.’s and Accenture Plc.’s joint venture Avanade Inc. to establish an “Adobe practice” aimed at helping customers get more value out of its products and services. The idea behind the practice is to help customers better integrate Adobe’s and Microsoft’s cloud-based sales and marketing products, so they can ...
Microsoft reveals how it’s planning to make its Azure cloud even more reliable
Microsoft Corp. says the current 99.995% average uptime of its Azure public cloud infrastructure offering simply isn’t good enough, so it’s taking steps to improve it even more. In a blog post today, Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich noted how Azure’s availability was hurt by “three unique and significant incidents” in the last 12 months. Those ...
