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Nvidia brings its Tesla T4 GPUs for machine learning to Google’s cloud
Google LLC today announced it’s making Nvidia Corp.’s low-power Tesla T4 graphics processing units available on its cloud platform in beta test mode. The move is significant because Nvidia’s GPUs are the most popular hardware used for machine learning. That’s a subset of artificial intelligence that uses software to emulate roughly how the human brain ...
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty files for IPO
Incident response startup PagerDuty Inc. has just filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a report late today in Bloomberg. The report cites “two people familiar with the matter” as saying that PagerDuty has chosen Morgan Stanley to lead the IPO. What isn’t clear is when PagerDuty plans to launch its offering, since the ...
Google to update G Suite apps with Material Design theme
Google LLC’s G Suite web apps are getting a shiny new makeover along the lines of its Material Design theme. The update, affecting Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, will be rolled out to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, G Suite for Education, G Suite Enterprise for Education and G Suite ...
Loon hires advisers to commercialize its balloon-based internet technology
Loon LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc., has appointed a new advisory board as it looks to commercialize its stratospheric balloon technology that delivers internet connectivity to remote areas. In order to do that, the company has decided that the best way is to partner with mobile network operators or MNOs ...
Micron to buy Intel’s stake in 3D XPoint joint venture for $1.5B
Computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. Monday confirmed plans to buy out rival Intel Corp.’s stake in their flash memory joint venture company IM Flash Technologies for $1.5 billion. The IM Flash joint venture owns a foundry in Lehi, Utah, which was setup in 2005 and is the world’s only producer of 3D XPoint memory technology. It’s a nonvolatile or ...
Google extends Android Enterprise Recommended program to mobility management firms
Google LLC today expanded its Android Enterprise Recommended program to so-called Enterprise Mobility Management providers that help large businesses manage and enable Android services at large scale. The Android Enterprise Recommended program was opened to smartphone makers last year, detailing several common requirements for devices and services deemed essential for business users, which are backed ...
Kong adds new AI-powered tools to ease API management
Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. today updated its platform with new artificial intelligence- and machine learning-powered tools designed to help automate the management of API lifecycles. The new tools, Kong Brain and Kong Immunity, will be integrated into the Kong Enterprise API platform, which serves as a foundation for developers looking to build a ...
Intel could choose a new CEO before the end of the month
Intel Corp. may be close to naming a new chief executive officer to replace its former chief Brian Krzanich, who left the chipmaking giant more than six months ago. Bloomberg today quoted anonymous sources as saying that the new CEO could well be a “nontraditional candidate,” which suggests that a figure from outside the company is ...
Microsoft wins $1.76B contract to supply cloud services to Pentagon
Microsoft Corp. has landed a huge $1.76 billion cloud computing contract from the U.S. Department of Defense under which it will provide an array of services to several agencies over the next five years. The contract, which runs until January 2024, calls for Microsoft to supply cloud services to the DOD, the U.S. Coast Guard and ...
Choice Hotels moves its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a big customer win in the hospitality industry, with Choice Hotels International Inc. going “all-in” on its public cloud infrastructure. Choice Hotels, which owns well-known hotel brands such as Ascend Hotel Collection, Cambria Hotels, Comfort, Sleep Inn and Quality Inn, said it’s planning to migrate its entire information technology ...