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Cisco Systems Inc. is throwing its weight behind Google Cloud’s hybrid cloud services platform, newly rebranded as Anthos. The networking giant is integrating some of its core hardware platforms and software products with Google Cloud’s Anthos, formerly called Cloud Services Platform. It’s …
Google Cloud Run brings serverless infrastructure to software containers
Hoping to steal a march on its bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC is shaking up its stack of serverless software that enables developers to building applications in a more automated way. It’s doing so with a new offering called Cloud Run …
Google to expand cloud infrastructure with new regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City
Google LLC today said it’s adding to its cloud infrastructure with new data center facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seoul, South Korea, that will help it scale up its capacity to cater for its growing customer base. The new cloud …
Google brings the cream of open-source software to its cloud
Google LLC today revealed that it’s teaming up with a raft of prominent open-source software companies in a massive expansion of the number of “first class” services available on its public cloud. Opening its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, …
AMD launches its second-generation Ryzen Pro mobile chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is keeping up the pressure on rival Intel Corp. with the launch of new additions to its Zen-based microprocessors. The company Monday unveiled its second-generation AMD Ryzen Pro mobile processors, alongside its first batch of Athlon Pro mobile …
Cloud security company Bitglass raises $70M in late-stage round
Cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. is in a confident mood after landing a $70 million round of financing. The Series D round, led by new investor Quadrille Capital, with participation from existing investors FutureFund, New Enterprise Associates, Norwest and SingTel Innov8, brings its …
Nvidia spins up its GPUs to accelerate AI-driven medical diagnosis and drug discovery
Nvidia Corp. reckons artificial intelligence has evolved to the point where it can be reliably used to help diagnose diseases and discover new drugs. To enable these new capabilities, the maker of graphics processing unit chips and computers, today announced it’s collaborating …
Samsung is mass-producing 5G modem chips, but it won’t sell them to Apple
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it has finally begun mass-producing 5G modem chipsets to be used in the next generation of mobile devices. Samsung’s 5G modems are extremely important for the company, which besides being the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer …
AWS to boost its presence in Asia with new Indonesia cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. is building a new cloud region in Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta as it looks to beef up its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The public cloud computing giant revealed its plans Wednesday, saying the new facility will open …
LinkedIn’s newly open-sourced Avro2TF preps data for TensorFlow
LinkedIn Corp. Thursday donated yet another internally built tool to the open-source community: a conversion tool that transforms data from Apache Spark into a format that can easily be consumed by TensorFlow for machine learning purposes. TensorFlow is one of the most popular …