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SWIM enables real-time edge data analytics on Microsoft Azure
Edge computing company SWIM Inc. wants to help enterprises bring all of their data-generating assets together within Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. By doing so, the data can quickly be analyzed in real-time, labeled appropriately and then put to use by any Azure-based applications that require it, the company said. SWIM is an interesting company that ...
LinkedIn debuts Skills Assessments for users to prove their expertise
LinkedIn. Corp. today added a new skills test feature to its website that lets users prove their expertise in a variety of fields. LinkedIn Skill Assessments, first previewed in May, is a series of short, standardized tests that rely on “adaptive testing,” which adjusts to people’s test performance by offering easier or harder questions based ...
Adobe stock falls on light guidance
Creativity software company Adobe Inc. beat expectations on third-quarter earnings today, but the strong performance was tempered by soft guidance for the next quarter. Adobe, which sells the popular Photoshop image editing tool and a range of cloud marketing technology services, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.05 per share ...
Pure Storage debuts ‘AI First’ infrastructure and new cloud services
Data storage company Pure Storage Inc. is making a play for more artificial intelligence workloads with a new “AI First” infrastructure offering announced today at its Pure//Accelerate 2019 event in Austin this week. The new AI Data Hub product is billed as an “end-to-end AI pipeline solution” that provides enterprises with the infrastructure they need ...
Oracle and VMware announce key hybrid cloud partnership
Oracle Corp. has become the latest public cloud platform provider to team up with VMware Inc. to advance the idea of running computing workloads in a similar way both in corporate data centers and in the cloud. The companies announced today a new partnership that will enable their joint customers to setup hybrid cloud environments that can ...
Nvidia’s TensorRT deep learning inference platform breaks new ground in conversational AI
Nvidia Corp. is upping its artificial intelligence game with the release of a new version of its TensorRT software platform for high-performance deep learning inference. TensorRT is a platform that combines a high-performance deep learning inference optimizer with a runtime that delivers low-latency, high-throughput inference for AI applications. Inference is an important aspect of AI. Whereas ...
Cloud security firm Lacework raises $42M
Cyberecurity startup Lacework Inc. is looking to grow its business faster after securing $42 million in funding from Sutter Hill Ventures and Liberty Ventures and hiring cloud security veteran Andy Byron as its new president and chief revenue officer. The Series C round brings Lacework’s total amount raised to date to $74.7 million. Lacework focuses ...
AWS Outposts, Amazon’s cloud for data centers, will launch by the end of the year
Amazon Web Services Inc. today revealed some more details about AWS Outposts, its forthcoming integrated data-center hardware product. Announced in November, AWS Outposts is essentially an on-premises data center system that will be an extension of VMware Cloud on AWS or a native AWS cloud environment. It’s somewhat similar to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack offering, ...
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Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd takes leave of absence for unspecified health reasons
Oracle Corp. co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd is taking a leave of absence from the company for health reasons, and his duties will be assumed by co-CEO Safra Catz and Oracle co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison. In a note to employees today, Hurd (pictured) said he’d requested time off to focus on his health. Neither ...
Explorium wants to play matchmaker with your AI training data
Data science startup Explorium Ltd. wants to play matchmaker for the enterprise after landing $19 million in funding to get its operation off the ground. The funding, announced today, consists of a $3.6 million seed round led by Emerge with participation from F2 Capital, plus a $15.5 million Series A round led by Zeev Ventures. ...