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Databricks’ MLflow machine learning toolkit adds support for R language
Big-data company Databricks Inc. today updated its MLflow machine learning toolkit with support for the R programming language and other new features aimed at boosting its utility. Databricks had unveiled MLflow only in June in order to help to standardize the process of developing and moving machine learning applications into production. The company argues that the process ...
Oracle adds a NoSQL database to its autonomous lineup
Oracle Corp. is expanding its autonomous database lineup with the release of the Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database. Announced Tuesday, the new database is being offered as a fully managed service that’s optimized for NoSQL applications that demand lower latency, data model flexibility and elastic scaling, the company said. Those kinds of applications include advertising, gaming, ...
Xilinx unveils new breed of computer processor designed for AI inference
Chipmaker Xilinx Inc. today lifted the lid on the first product to come out of the adaptive compute acceleration platform project it revealed earlier this year. Xilinx’s proprietary seven-nanometer ACAP chips are said to have capabilities for artificial intelligence workloads that go far beyond its field-programmable gate array or FPGA chips, which are processors used in data ...
Facebook fleshes out its PyTorch AI framework along with new cloud partners
Facebook Inc. today launched a developer preview of its long-awaited PyTorch artificial intelligence software framework, which helps accelerate the deployment of AI-based applications. Announced in May, PyTorch was created by Facebook’s AI research group as a machine learning library of functions for the programming language Python. It’s primarily designed for use with deep learning, which ...
Smartsheet expands product capabilities as it eyes government sector
Collaboration software company Smartsheet Inc. is looking to spread its tentacles further after adding more than 20 new product enhancements to its cloud-based platform at today’s opening of its ENGAGE user conference. The company also said it’s on the road to achieving a very important certification that will enable it to serve federal government agencies ...
Platform9 adds another open-source tool to the Kubernetes ecosystem
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. is donating a new tool to the open-source community that makes it easier to deploy etcd clusters in the cloud, on-premises and in hybrid cloud environments. The tool, called “etcdadm,” is essentially a command-line interface that enables developers to configure, install and operate secure etcd clusters wherever they ...
Arcadia Data lands $15M Series B funding round to grow its visual analytics platform
Arcadia Data Inc., maker of a business intelligence platform that uses visualizations to make data analysis easier to understand, today said it has closed on a $15 million round of funding. The Series B round, led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Blumberg Capital, brings Arcadia Data’s total ...
Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, a framework to decentralize the internet and give back control to users
The founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has created an ambitious open source project called “Solid” that aims to decentralize the internet and restore power to the people. In a blog post on Medium Saturday, Berners-Lee (pictured) said the modern web has become “an engine of inequity and division,” with internet giants such as ...
Oracle’s Thomas Kurian has resigned, three weeks after taking extended leave
Oracle Corp. says one of its top executives, Thomas Kurian, has resigned from the company, three weeks after saying he was taking “extended time off” from the database and business software giant. “Mr. Kurian’s duties and responsibilities have been reassigned to other senior executives in Oracle’s development organization,” the company said in a filing with ...
Kubernetes 1.12 release introduces new security capabilities
One of the hottest open-source enterprise software projects got a major update today. Kubernetes version 1.12, announced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, comes with a host of new features, including a new TLS Bootstrapping security capability that developers have been working to implement for the past two years. Kubernetes releases are significant because the ...