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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Frontegg debuts its ‘SaaS-as-a-service platform’
Frontegg Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with the launch of a platform designed to help companies fast-track software-as-a-service development and innovation, backed by $5 million in seed funding. The seed funding round was led by Pitango, with participation from i3 Equity …
Nokia is moving its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud
Google LLC has landed a major customer in the shape of the Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia Corp., which said today it’s migrating its entire on-premises information technology infrastructure onto Google Cloud, including all of its data centers, servers and software applications. Nokia …
Facebook’s Open Catalyst Project uses AI to find new ways to store renewable energy
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit said today it has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Chemical Engineering on a collaborative project to use AI to accelerate quantum mechanical simulations. The idea is to discover new “electrocatalysts” that can provide …
With an app for small farmers, Agrolly wins IBM’s Call for Code Global Challenge
IBM Corp. said today the creators of an application that helps to connect and provide support for small farmers around the world have won the grand prize of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. Call for Code is an annual contest …
Xilinx and Spline.ai use AI to enable COVID-19 detection at the edge
Chipmaker Xilinx Inc. said today it has teamed up with an artificial intelligence startup called Spline.ai to create a medical X-ray classification model that it says can improve prediction rates for COVID-19 and pneumonia using AI at the edge. The model was …
Google adds new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance
Google LLC said today it’s adding a bunch of new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance, which brings together various security firms and data management providers to help extend its concept of the “zero-trust” security model. BeyondCorp is a security framework that involves …