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Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business users
Baidu Inc. today announced the availability in beta test of a new “speech-to-speech simultaneous translation service” designed to facilitate communication at business events. The Chinese technology giant said the service can provide highly accurate, real-time translation of speaker presentations at events in both audio and text. The way it works is interesting, too, as the translations are ...
Microsoft launches Ultra Disk cloud storage service for data-intensive workloads
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of its new Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive storage service in three of its cloud regions. Azure Ultra Disk is what the company calls a next-generation distributed block storage service, designed to cater to high-throughput and high-input/output Azure virtual machines. It’s currently available in the East US 2, North Europe ...
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Graphic turnaround: Nvidia posts solid revenue gains thanks to AI, graphics chip sales
Updated: Things are looking up at Nvidia Corp., which easily beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its second quarter thanks to growing demand for its artificial intelligence and graphics chips. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.24 per diluted share. Revenue topped $2.58 billion for the quarter, down ...
Dell and AT&T collaborate on open-source 5G network edge infrastructure
Dell Technologies Inc. and AT&T Inc. said today they’re working together to develop open-source infrastructure necessary to enable the “network edge” ahead of the transition from 4G to 5G wireless networks. The network edge refers to a concept known as “edge computing,” where data produced by mobile devices is processed closer to its source instead ...
NetApp beats estimates two weeks after revising its outlook
Data storage company NetApp Inc. managed to beat its own expectations on earnings and revenue in its first quarter, but that was only because it slashed its original forecast two weeks ago. The company, which sells a mix of data storage hardware and software for hybrid cloud information technology environments, reported a profit before certain ...
Cisco falls on poor guidance and plummeting sales in China
Even after the stock market bloodbath today, networking company Cisco Systems Inc. took even more of a beating later after posting weaker-than-expected guidance in its fourth-quarter earnings report. In the three months just gone, Cisco did surprisingly well. It delivered a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 83 cents per share on revenue ...
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All in the Dell family: VMware in talks to acquire Pivotal Software
Pivotal Software Inc. is looking to reunite with its parent company VMware Inc., which spun it out in 2013. The companies, which are both majority-owned by Dell Technologies Inc., said they’re holding talks regarding an acquisition priced at $15 per share, which represents an 80% premium to Pivotal’s stock price at close of trading today. ...
Virtual Instruments acquires Metricly to help customers optimize cloud spending
Infrastructure performance management firm Virtual Instruments Inc. is adding cloud cost optimization to its repertoire of skills through the acquisition today of Metricly Inc. Virtual Instruments provides tools that help companies to understand, manage, optimize and automate their hybrid information technology environments. The company has been steadily expanding the types of services it offers. Last year, ...
Canada’s Globe and Mail adopts Amazon’s AI services to promote its content
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s artificial intelligence and machine learning credentials have gotten a boost from Canada’s most popular newspaper, The Globe and Mail. The newspaper said today it has chosen AWS as its “standard” platform for AI and machine learning workloads after experimenting with a range of its services, including AWS SageMaker, AWS Comprehend, AWS ...
Cray lands $600M Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer contract
Cray Inc. has signed a $600 million contract to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration with its first exascale supercomputer. The new machine, called El Capitan, will be delivered in 2022 before going online the following year. It’s expected to have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops, meaning it can perform an impressive 1.5 ...