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Gartner says it’s time to think about moving beyond the network edge
Gartner Inc. says the constantly evolving nature of technology means that anyone who thinks the network edge is the last place to develop new services could be in for a shock. The rise of edge computing has been one of the hottest topics in information technology this year. Edge computing refers to data being processed ...
Google adds Istio to its Kubernetes platform to make microservices easier to manage
Software developers are adopting Kubernetes-based microservices architectures to build modern applications in droves. Now, Google LLC is trying to help developers manage those microservices more easily with the addition of Istio, an open source service mesh, to its enterprise-grade Google Kubernetes Engine platform. Google has been at the forefront of Kubernetes’ development since the project’s ...
AWS signs up new, expanded customers ahead of re:Invent cloud conference
Just hours ahead of its annual re:Invent customer conference, Amazon Web Services Inc. said it has signed up important new and expanded customers who will be using its public cloud computing infrastructure to run the bulk of their information technology operations. They include Ellie Mae Inc., which provides cloud software for the mortgage industry that ...
Israeli startup grabs $5.5M in seed funding to build a full ‘quantum stack’
Israeli startup Quantum Machines Co. has joined the race to build the infrastructure necessary to support quantum computing. The company, which is based in Tel Aviv, said today it has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round led by Battery Ventures and TLV Partners. Quantum Machines was founded this year by Chief Executive Officer Itamar ...
‘Hyperscale’ data center firms take infrastructure spending to new levels
Hyperscale data center operators spent a combined $26 billion on new infrastructure in the last quarter, up more than 53 percent from the third quarter of 2017. The data comes from Synergy Research Group’s latest report on hyperscale capital expenditure, which revealed that Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. ...
As iPhone sales falter, Apple supplier Foxconn to reduce operations costs by $3B
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, apparently is planning to cut operational costs by about 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) following what it said was a “very difficult and competitive year.” The company is intending to slash about 10 percent of its “nontechnical staff” from its roster over the next ...
Cloud security startup Alcide lands $7M in Series A funding round
Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., says it’s ready to play with the big boys now. Today, it announced it has landed $7 million in a Series A round of financing that it plans to use to fuel its expansion into the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. The round was led by ...
Amazon has built an AI system that can train robots to speak like a newsreader
Amazon.com Inc. has come up with a new artificial intelligence system that can train digital voice assistants such as Alexa to learn new speaking styles, similar to a newsreader for example, in a matter of hours. In a blog post today, Trevor Wood, Amazon’s applied science manager, said the new text-to-speech system could replace traditional methods ...
With Contextor acquisition, SAP jumps into hot robotic process automation market
SAP SE today became the latest enterprise company to jump into the white-hot robotic process automation market, acquiring a significant player called Contextor SAS for an undisclosed price. SAP said it was buying Contextor primarily to help accelerate the development of its Leonardo platform, which is used by enterprises to create automated machine-learning-based applications and ...
No surprise here, but Amazon continues to dominate the public cloud market
Amazon Web Services Inc. has retained its position as top dog in the public cloud infrastructure services market by some distance from its closest rivals, according to new data today from Synergy Research Group. The research firm said third-quarter data shows that Amazon’s lead stretches across all four of the world’s major regions, with Microsoft ...