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An industry group called the Confidential Computing Consortium, which aims to standardize the way that data is encrypted while in use, said today it’s adding 10 more members to its community. The Linux Foundation-backed project said it’s welcoming a raft of big …
AMD latest chips smash power efficiency goals set in 2014
Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it has met a target it set for itself back in 2014 to boost the power efficiency of its Accelerated Processing Units by 25 times by 2020. In fact, the company said, it has beaten that …
Gartner says container adoption will grow rapidly, but it won’t be that profitable
Gartner Inc. today delivered its first-ever forecast for the software container management software and services market, saying that although adoption of the technology will be widespread, it’s unlikely to generate massive amounts of cash. Software containers have enjoyed massive growth in recent years. …
Databricks hands its MLflow machine learning platform to the Linux Foundation
Databricks Inc., the big-data and machine learning company that leads the commercial development of Apache Spark, today put its MLflow project into the hands of the Linux Foundation. MLflow is a machine learning operations or MLOps platform that the company first open-sourced two …
As pandemic drags on, venture capitalists place bets on healthcare – and profits
The COVID-19 pandemic has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of venture capital investors, with the vast majority reporting they’re still investing at normal or near-normal levels. That’s according to a new survey released today by the financial technology firm Pitchbook Data Inc. …
Apple buys mobile device management startup Fleetsmith
Apple Inc. has bought a company called Fleetsmith Inc., which makes tools that help companies to deploy iPhones, iPads and Mac computers to their workers more easily. The announcement was made in a blog post today on Fleetsmith’s website. Although Apple primarily sells phones …
AWS for everyone: Amazon jumps into low-code app development with Honeycode
Amazon Web Services Inc. is getting into the low-code software development game with today’s launch of its latest new service, Amazon Honeycode. It’s a fully managed service that enables enterprise employees to build mobile and web-based applications without any programming skills. Amazon said customers …
Databricks buys Redash and debuts Delta Engine, a fast query tool for data lakes
Big-data company Databricks Inc. wants to help enterprises dig into their vast troves of data even faster, so today it launched a new, high-performance query engine for cloud-based data lakes. The company also announced the acquisition of an Israeli startup called Redash …
Nutanix delivers a way for companies to manage cloud infrastructure remotely
Data center company Nutanix Inc. today introduced some new services that can help pandemic-affected companies to deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure from anywhere, in order to support their remote workforces. The company said that with many employees now being forced to …
Salesforce and Siemens partner on post-pandemic, touch-free office technology
Salesforce.com Inc. and Siemens AG are teaming up to deliver new, touch-free office products for employees returning to the workplace. Announced today, the partnership combines Salesforce’s Work.com products with smart infrastructure services delivered by Siemens, including its Comfy and Enlighted “internet of …