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Converged infrastructure systems sales grow 19%
Enterprises are showing no letup in their demand for converged infrastructure systems, if International Data Corp.’s latest numbers are any indication. In IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker published today, revenue from the market increased by 19.3% year over year to $3.75 billion during the first quarter of 2019. Once again, Dell Technologies Inc. led the way ...
Google beefs up Gmail security with new tools for admins
Google LLC today strengthened G Suite with more security tools for Gmail. The new tools are designed for use by information technology administrators, and include a new sandbox feature, better protections against phishing and malware, and new controls to stop employees from forwarding, copying, downloading or printing messages they receive. In a blog post, G ...
Micron dodges Huawei ban to deliver stronger-than-expected earnings
American chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. surprised analysts today after reporting third-quarter results that easily beat expectations. The company’s earnings report comes as several media sources said it and other chipmakers have found ways to get around a U.S. government ban on sales to the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., which is one of ...
NeuVector adds container runtime security to AWS infrastructure
Container network security firm NeuVector Inc. today said it’s integrating its security tools with some of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud infrastructure services to help companies running Kubernetes workloads better protect those deployments. The integrations cover Amazon services including AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes, AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS App Mesh, the company ...
Gartner: Red-hot robotic process automation market leads enterprise software growth
Gartner Inc. today published new data on the state of the robotic process automation field, saying revenue for the red-hot market jumped 63% in the past year. The influx of money means the RPA industry is now the fastest-growing enterprise software segment, though with a total market value of $846.2 million, it’s still some way behind ...
As sanctions start to bite, Huawei tries to distance itself from its US research arm
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has reportedly been working to separate the operations of its research arm Futurewei Technologies Inc. from its parent company after U.S. President Donald Trump banned the firm from trading with U.S. businesses. Reuters reported today that Futurewei has banned employees of Huawei from entering its main offices, while Futurewei employees have ...
Google makes it easier to analyze machine learning data with BigQuery and Kaggle
Google is trying to foster more collaboration within the machine learning community, which is focused on a specific subset of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the way the human brain learns. To do so, it’s integrating its BigQuery cloud data warehouse and analytics service with Kaggle, an online community for data scientists and other machine ...
Platform9 extends its fully managed services to the wider Kubernetes ecosystem
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. is extending its fully managed Kubernetes service with a new offering called Kubernetes Managed Apps. Platform9 is a company that specializes in offering “managed” versions of some of the most popular open-source software used by enterprises today, offering what it calls “open-source-as-a-service.” It said it now wants to provide a ...
Facebook debuts PyRobot, an open-source framework for controlling robots
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to help AI researchers and students integrate deep learning models created using the PyTorch framework with the robots they build. The idea is that they can get their robots up and running ...
Microsoft doubles down on its educational tools for teachers and students
Microsoft Corp. today announced some updates to its educational tools ahead of the ISTE EdTech conference in Philadelphia next week. The updated products include Microsoft’s Immersive Reader tool and Teams for Education, which is a special version of its chat service that helps to foster more interaction between teachers and students. Immersive Reader, a “full-screen reading ...