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SUSE ditches OpenStack to focus on applications
Linux company SUSE Group is killing off its OpenStack Cloud product, stopping development in order to focus more on application delivery. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is the company’s distribution of the open-source OpenStack platform that provides a framework to create and manage both public cloud and private cloud infrastructure. The surprise announcement comes just a few ...
IBM and MIT break new ground in video recognition model training
IBM Corp. has teamed up with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a new method for training “video recognition” deep learning models more efficiently. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to replicate how the human brain solves problems. It has led to major breakthroughs in areas such as ...
Nutanix and HPE team up on hybrid cloud management
Data storage company Nutanix Inc. is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to provide an alternative to Dell EMC and VMware Inc. when it comes to hybrid cloud management. The companies announced today at the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the general availability of a new hyperconverged infrastructure system that integrates HPE’s GreenLake hybrid ...
Arm aims to make it easier to customize its low-powered processor chips
British chipmaker Arm Ltd. today said it’s adding an “Arm Custom Instructions” feature set to its latest Armv8-M architecture. The idea is to give customers a way to add special instructions for specific embedded and “internet of things” applications to its central processing units. The Armv8-M architecture is the basis of Arm’s current family of M33 ...
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud service in preview
Microsoft Corp. and Pivotal Software Inc. are making it easier for developers to build microservices-based applications atop the Spring Boot framework. The companies today launched a private preview of a new service called Azure Spring Cloud. It’s a fully managed and production-ready Azure cloud service that can be used to build scalable microservices without worrying ...
‘Headless’ content management system firm Contentstack raises $31.5M
Content management system provider Contentstack LLC is hoping to build on its recent momentum after raising $31.5 million in a new funding round. The Series A round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital. Contentstack’s CMS is used by brands to create and manage digital content, with the ...
Samsung’s profits ‘bottom out’ on low demand for its memory chips
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it’s expecting to report third-quarter profits of 7.7 trillion won ($6.4 billion) on revenue of 62 trillion won at the end of the month. The profit forecast is well above market expectations of 6.99 trillion won, but would still represent a 56% decline from the same period a year ago, ...
Samsung announces 12-layer packaging technology for computer memory chips
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it has managed to squeeze an extra four layers onto its current eight-layer High Bandwidth Memory-2 products. High Bandwidth Memory-2 is a kind of memory interface used in 3D-stacked dynamic random access memory for graphics processing units, computer servers, high-performance computing and networking. The new packaging technology, called 12-layer ...
HP announces massive layoffs and a new printing business plan
Struggling computer and printer maker HP Inc. is planning to cut between 7,000 and 9,000 jobs over the next three years as part of a major new restructuring of its business. Enrique Lores, who is set to take over as HP’s new president and chief executive officer next month, announced the plan during the company’s ...
Intel and Brown University research will use AI to treat spinal cord injuries
Researchers from Brown University and Intel Corp. are working together to develop new artificial intelligence-based technologies aimed at helping victims of spinal injuries walk again. When someone suffers an injury to the spinal cord, the electrical signals from the brain can no longer pass to the muscles, which leads to paralysis. Such injuries are devastating ...