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HPE adds container service tricks to its OneSphere hybrid cloud manager
Software containers have emerged as a useful tool to build cloud-native applications that can be built just once and run anywhere, while Kubernetes software has zoomed to prominence as the way to deploy those apps at large scale. But those tools both require very specialized skills to implement, so infrastructure companies believe enterprises will benefit ...
Amazon claims better price performance with its new ‘burstable’ T3 instances
Always looking to stay ahead of its rivals, Amazon Web Services Inc. has updated its “burstable general-purpose instances” for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service in order to provide better performance for next-generation software applications. Amazon’s new T3 instances are the successor to its previous-generation T2 instances. The company describes them as “burstable” because they’re ...
C3 IoT’s industrial ‘internet of things’ platform lands on Google’s cloud
Industrial “internet of things” startup C3 Inc., usually known as C3 IoT, is teaming up with Google LLC to deploy its platform-as-a-service on Google’s public cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2009 by Chairman and Chief Executive Thomas M. Siebel, C3 IoT offers an enterprise platform-as-a-service for artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, big data and other IoT software ...
After landing $17M round, Robin Systems launches first hyperconverged Kubernetes platform
Container-based cloud infrastructure provider Robin Systems Inc. is marking a new round of funding with a major new product release focused on the Kubernetes orchestration tool. The company today announced what it says is the industry’s “first hyperconverged Kubernetes platform.” It enables companies to run big-data software such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, an ...
Gartner says AI and biohacking will shape the future of tech
Artificial intelligence and “biohacking” will be among the key trends guiding the future of technology, according to one of Gartner Inc.’s most eagerly anticipated reports. The report, released Monday, is based on Gartner’s famous “hype cycle,” which plots the lifespan of new technologies as they emerge from mere concepts, all the way through to their ...
Google intros Cloud HSM encryption key management service module
Google LLC is updating the Cloud Key Management Service for its Google Cloud Platform with an easier-to-implement and lower-cost option that allows customers to protect workloads without worrying about the operational overhead. Available in beta test mode starting today, Cloud HSM (pictured) is a managed and cloud-hosted “hardware security module” service that customers can use to ...
Survey highlights AI’s growing importance in tech infrastructure
Digital operations infrastructure company OpsRamp Inc. is highlighting the growing trend toward using artificial intelligence to help monitor information technology operations, a practice that’s often referred to as “AIOps.” The company early Monday posted the findings of a survey showing AIOps has great potential in helping enterprises to cut through the overwhelming amount of “noise,” ...
Intel buys deep learning portability startup Vertex
Intel Corp. made another artificial intelligence acquisition Thursday, buying a company called Vertex.AI that sells tools for developers to add deep learning capabilities to their applications. Vertex, a three-year-old startup based in Seattle, leads the development of the open source PlaidML platform. That’s a “portable deep learning engine” first released in October last year that ...
Western Digital backs software-defined storage startup Excelero
Things are looking up for software-defined storage startup Excelero Inc., which today received a strategic investment from data center giant Western Digital Corp. that brings its total funding to $35 million. The companies didn’t say exactly how much Western Digital is investing, but its previous total funding amounted to $30 million, so its safe to assume ...
Google launches the first of its prepackaged AI services
Google LLC has delivered on one of the promises it made at its recent Cloud Next conference to make its artificial intelligence services easier to implement. The cloud company today launched the first of what it calls “prepackaged AI services,” which as the name suggests bundle prebuilt AI tools for specific business tasks. Google’s thinking ...