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Amazon partners with satellite communications firm Iridium to deliver IoT services from space
Satellite communications company Iridium Communications Inc. wants to enable connectivity for “internet of things” services from space in a new partnership with public cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. The company said it’s hoping to connect Amazon’s IoT services with its satellite network by next year. The idea is that Iridium’s constellation of telecommunications ...
Amazon rolls out High Memory Instances for in-memory databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE’s HANA. The new High Memory EC2 instances offer a choice of 6, 9 and 12 terabytes of memory, with 18TB and 24TB options to arrive next year. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr said in ...
IBM adds AI-powered features to its Cognos Analytics business intelligence platform
IBM Corp. today updated its Cognos Analytics suite with new artificial intelligence capabilities, including natural language dialogue, automatic pattern detection and storytelling features. Cognos Analytics is a cloud-based business intelligence platform that allows business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports. IBM said it’s updating the platform in order ...
Google’s DeepMind partners with Unity to train AI agents in virtual worlds
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence group DeepMind Technologies Ltd. said today it will research AI agents with 3-D game development company Unity Technologies Inc., which made the engine for the popular Pokemon Go game. The two companies plan to create a virtual test ground for AI agents that may eventually be used in fields such as autonomous ...
Flexera acquires cloud management and cost optimization firm RightScale
Flexera Software LLC says it wants to help enterprises keep a lid on their cloud spending, acquiring RightScale Inc. for an undisclosed price today to beef up its ability to do that. Flexera is a software asset management provider that sells tools that help enterprises to automate many of the tasks required to maintain compliance ...
New working group aims to bring Kubernetes to IoT edge networks
The Kubernetes project has emerged as the default container orchestration tool in many DevOps scenarios, but teething problems still exist when it comes to “internet of things” deployments in the cloud and at the network edge. With that in mind, the Eclipse Foundation, an organization that’s working to standardize on open source technologies for IoT, ...
Mesosphere says Kubernetes adoption is driving hybrid cloud shift
One in four companies now relies on multiple cloud providers, up 50 percent from two years ago. That’s according to Mesosphere Inc.‘s latest survey published Tuesday on the state of the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems. The company, which sells a data center operating system based on Apache Mesos, said this shift to the cloud is reflected in enterprises’ growing ...
LinkedIn launches Talent Insights to aid recruitment planning
LinkedIn Corp. is trying to cash in on the data it has gathered from its 575 million worldwide members, 20 million companies and 15 million job listings with a new service for companies to learn more about themselves, their competitors and the talent they want to attract. The Talent Insights service, launched Tuesday, essentially marks LinkedIn’s first foray ...
Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its mobile chip designs, giving them to Intel
Qualcomm Inc.’s long-running legal battle with Apple Inc. has taken another twist, with the chipmaker accusing its rival of intellectual property theft on a grand scale. Qualcomm said in an amended complaint Tuesday that Apple has been stealing its modem chip designs and providing them to Intel Corp. for several years. Intel, it’s alleged, then used those ...
Google and Salesforce integrate their platforms with new data connector
Google LLC stole a march on its public cloud rivals last year when it announced it was teaming up with Salesforce.com Inc. to help customers get more actionable insights from their marketing, sales and service data. One of the major aspects of that partnership was that Salesforce would integrate its marketing, sales and advertising data ...