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SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Equinix delivers private connections to VMware Cloud on AWS
Data center operator Equinix Inc. is teaming up with VMware Inc. to offer private connectivity through its global infrastructure to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services via AWS Direct Connect. With the offering, enterprises will be able to access VMware Cloud on AWS through a private connection that bypasses the public internet. The benefits of doing so ...
Nvidia’s GPU cloud for deep learning can now be accessed via Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. today said it’s teaming up with Nvidia Corp. so that its Azure cloud customers can tap into the graphics chipmaker’s GPU Cloud in order to train deep learning models. Nvidia’s GPU Cloud offers developers preconfigured containers with software accelerated by its graphics processing units, which offer better performance than standard central processing units when ...
Despite solid earnings, Salesforce investors are less than impressed
Updated: Salesforce.com Inc. easily topped earnings estimates in a strong second quarter, but investors were far from impressed as it came up short on its third-quarter guidance, sending its share price down in after-hours trading. Salesforce, widely regarded as the leader in customer relationship management software, posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation ...
Object storage company Cloudian closes on $94M funding round
Cloudian Inc., a maker of data center storage appliances, today said it has raised a hefty $94 million in a Series E round of equity funding that brings its total amount raised to $173 million. Cloudian said it’s the largest fund-raising round ever by an object storage company. Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Facebook hits its green energy goal for data centers a year ahead of schedule
Embattled social media giant Facebook Inc. finally has some positive news to report. The company said Tuesday it has met its goal of using renewable energy sources to supply at least 50 percent of its data center energy a year ahead of schedule. The company, which has for months been beset with scandals centered on privacy ...
Intel announces eighth-generation chips for lightweight laptops
Intel Corp. today rolled out a new line of central processing units, including its eighth-generation U-series “Whiskey Lake” and its Y-Series “Amber Lake” chips, which are designed to power lightweight and thin personal computers such as two-in-one devices. The U-series comes in three varieties – the Core i7-89565U, Core i5-8265U and Core i3-8145U — while ...
Box stock drops as it provides weak revenue guidance
Updated: Cloud storage company Box Inc. beat Wall Street’s expectations in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report, but its stock fell almost 7 percent in after-hours trading on a combination of weak guidance and concerns over its future profitability. Box said it made a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 5 cents per ...
Google’s Cloud Text-to-Speech service exits beta
Google LLC continues to make progress on the machine learning front, announcing today the general availability of its Cloud Text-to-Speech service as well as improvements to its Cloud Speech-to-Text service, which remains in beta. Google’s Text-to-Speech service is intended to help companies develop better conversational interfaces for the services they supply. With the service, Google ...
Cloud cost optimization firm Spotinst raises $35M in new funding round
Israeli cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spotinst says it has “hyperexpansion” on its mind after raising a new funding round worth $35 million. The Series B round, led by Highland with participation from previous investors Leaders Fund, Intel Capital and Vertex Ventures, brings the company’s total funding to $52 million. That’s a considerable sum of money ...
AMD’s new Radeon Pro card offers high-end graphics visualization for cloud data centers
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is targeting mobile workers with the launch Monday of a new Radeon Pro graphics card for data centers that’s designed to deliver powerful visualization in the cloud for remote workloads. The Radeon Pro V340 graphics card for data center visualization workloads is aimed at jobs such as computer-aided design, desktop-as-a-service and graphics ...