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Seattle Seahawks will use AWS to shape NFL game strategy
The Seattle Seahawks football team is looking to Amazon Web Services Inc. to give it a competitive edge in the NFL. The team said Monday it intends to make use of Amazon’s extensive cloud computing services to inform its game strategy and achieve more positive results. The Seahawks become the latest marquee customer for AWS, saying ...
Google’s Explainable AI service sheds light on how machine learning models make decisions
Google LLC has introduced a new “Explainable AI” service to its cloud platform aimed at making the process by which machine learning models come to their decisions more transparent. The idea is that this will help build greater trust in those models, Google said. That’s important because most existing models tend to be rather opaque. ...
Splunk’s hot streak continues as earnings top estimates
Updated: Data analytics company Splunk Inc. has delivered another strong quarter, beating Wall Street’s forecasts on earnings and revenue and posting strong guidance for the next three-month period. The company, which sells software that helps enterprises to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, today reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs ...
Pure Storage tanks after missing revenue forecasts – again
Updated: Pure Storage Inc.‘s stock took a huge beating today after the data storage company reported third-quarter revenue that missed estimates by some distance. And if that wasn’t enough, the company’s revenue guidance for the next quarter also came up short. Pure Storage, which sells a range of flash memory-based data storage hardware and software products, ...
Google’s Migrate for Anthos service is now generally available
Google LLC announced at its Cloud Next UK 2019 event the general availability of a new tool that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos hybrid cloud platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos runs atop the Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed to host ...
AWS updates its storage portfolio with a raft of new features
Hosting its inaugural Storage Day in the run-up to its annual re:Invent cloud computing conference in early December, Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a number of updates to its portfolio of storage services. Fast Snapshot Restore in Amazon EBS Top of the list is the new Fast Snapshot Restore feature in Amazon Elastic Block Store. Amazon ...
Intel warns of ‘extremely tight’ chip supply despite building up production
Computer chipmaker Intel Corp. took the rather unusual step Wednesday of providing an update on its ongoing chip supply issues. In a letter to its customers and partners, the company said it’s increasing its reliance on contract chip manufacturers to try to expand production to meet demand for its products. Even so, Intel warned that ...
Google adds more security features to its cloud services
Google LLC wants its cloud customers to have more control and visibility over their data, so today it announced a raft of new capabilities around data encryption, network security and security analytics. The most significant of the updates, which were announced at Google’s Cloud Next UK event in London today, is a new External Key ...
Big tech firms join the Open Invention Network to fight against patent trolls
IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and the Linux Foundation are teaming up with the Open Invention Network to help protect open-source software projects from so-called patent assertion entities, more colloquially called “patent trolls.” The OIN is a “patent non-aggression community” that cross-licenses patents to its members on a royalty-free basis. It also has its own patents, ...
Google launches a more predictable pricing model for its BigQuery analytics service
Google LLC today announced a new reservation system for its BigQuery service that helps ensure more predictable pricing for enterprises that use it regularly. BigQuery Reservations helps enterprises to predict their analytics spending more easily because they can purchase capacity in bulk and then allocate it as desired. Google said that should appeal to many ...