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Microsoft systems integrator Avanade to establish Adobe practice
Adobe Inc. says it’s teaming up with Microsoft Corp.’s and Accenture Plc.’s joint venture Avanade Inc. to establish an “Adobe practice” aimed at helping customers get more value out of its products and services. The idea behind the practice is to help customers better integrate Adobe’s and Microsoft’s cloud-based sales and marketing products, so they can ...
Microsoft reveals how it’s planning to make its Azure cloud even more reliable
Microsoft Corp. says the current 99.995% average uptime of its Azure public cloud infrastructure offering simply isn’t good enough, so it’s taking steps to improve it even more. In a blog post today, Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich noted how Azure’s availability was hurt by “three unique and significant incidents” in the last 12 months. Those ...
Intel unveils neuromorphic computing system that mimics the human brain
Intel Corp. today announced a neuromorphic computing system based on its prototype Loihi chips that aim to simulate how the human brain processes problems. At the DARPA ERI summit today, Intel Labs Director Rich Uhlig said the system, codenamed “Pohoiki Beach,” is comprised of 64 Loihi chips that he said have the equivalent computing power of ...
Gartner publishes first Magic Quadrant for robotic process automation market
Gartner Inc. this week published its first Magic Quadrant for the robotic process automation software market, shining a light on the leading players and key trends in the rapidly growing technology segment. RPA relates to the use of software with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to handle high-volume, repeatable tasks that previously required humans to ...
Rigetti Computing buys quantum application developer QxBranch
Quantum computing platform company Rigetti Computing Inc. is expanding into application territory with the acquisition of a startup called QxBranch Inc. Rigetti has built what it calls a “hybrid quantum-classical” computing platform that it claims is one of the world’s first genuine, working quantum computers. Available to use by researchers and organizations as a cloud service, ...
AWS makes the case for running Windows workloads on its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. is pushing to handle more of its customers’ Windows workloads, citing new data from International Data Corp. and various customer examples as proof that its public cloud computing infrastructure is one of the most cost-effective and agile platforms for doing so. In a blog posted on LinkedIn today, AWS Vice President ...
Nvidia sets new records in MLPerf AI benchmark tests
Nvidia Corp. says its solid performance in new benchmark tests released today show that its supercomputer hardware is one of the most suitable platforms for training artificial intelligence algorithms. The company’s DGX SuperPOD platform, which is powered by its latest Tesla V100 Tensor Core graphics processing units and runs on its CUDA-X AI software, set ...
Twilio adds email automation and testing tools to SendGrid
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. wants to help email marketers optimize their campaigns with new automation and testing features in its SendGrid platform. Twilio SendGrid was created following the firm’s $2 billion acquisition of SendGrid Inc. in October. The acquisition added cloud email support to complement Twilio’s existing communications software, including its popular voice-over-IP features. ...
OpenText and Google deepen cloud ties
Enterprise information management company OpenText Corp. is expanding its ties with Google LLC’s cloud in a deal that leverages Anthos, Google’s new platform for managing services hosted on-premises or in cloud environments. OpenText, which sells software for document management, record management, email management and web content management, said the expanded partnership announced today is based on the ...
ServiceNow’s software-as-a-service platform lands on Microsoft’s Azure cloud
Cloud automation platform company ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s making its software-as-a-service offering available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud, as well as its own private cloud infrastructure. The partnership builds on an earlier agreement between the two companies announced last October that enabled ServiceNow to deliver “digital workflows” through Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud platform. In ...