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Taking on Nvidia and AMD, Intel says it will launch its first discrete graphics chips in 2020
Targeting rivals Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. today confirmed in a tweet that it’s entering the market for discrete graphics processing units, with its first products expected in 2020. The company didn’t provide any details except for the confirmation. Instead, it linked back to an earlier announcement about its hiring of ...
Google adds more devices to Android Enterprise Recommended program
Google Inc. is adding more devices to its Android Enterprise Recommended program, which establishes a set of best practices for smartphone makers that want to market those devices to business users. The company launched Android Enterprise Recommended back in February, detailing several common requirements for smartphone devices and services that are backed by a rigorous ...
Google adds support for Node.js on its developer App Engine platform
Google Inc. today announced support for Node.js on its App Engine cloud-based web framework for building software applications hosted on Google infrastructure. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for executing JavaScript code server-side that’s becoming increasingly popular for running data applications at scale. Google said that starting today, developers can now deploy applications built using ...
Online retailer Zulily moves to Amazon Web Services’ cloud
E-commerce company Zulily LLC said today that it’s moving the vast majority of its information technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services in another big customer win for the public cloud giant. Zulily, which sells clothing, kids’ toys and home products via its online platform, is the latest in a string of big ...
Rackspace offers colocation services as a bridge to the cloud
Managed cloud computing services company Rackspace Inc. today said it will offer colocation services for customers that wish to deploy their own hardware inside the company’s data centers. The data center colocation model offers enterprises an alternative to regular cloud computing. With colocation, data center operators simply rent out space within their facility and provide ...
AI-based supply chain company LevaData raises $12M in funding round
Artificial intelligence-based supply chain system provider LevaData inc. is eyeing new markets after closing on a new $12 million round. The Series B round, led by previous investor Tola Capital, brings its total funding to almost $20 million since 2014. LevaData has built the Cognitive Sourcing Platform to help organizations in a range of industries, ...
Google and Cisco tease hybrid-cloud play based on Kubernetes
Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. Monday revealed more details about a planned hybrid cloud offering designed to help customers build apps that span on-premises data centers and the public cloud. The companies announced the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud last year. At the time, they said the offering was designed to let companies ...
DevOps automation firm Puppet acquires Reflect for its data visualization tools
Cloud automation company Puppet Inc. will add data visualization capabilities to its list of services after acquiring a startup called Reflect Technologies Inc. Thursday. Founded in 2015, Reflect is based in Portland, Oregon, just like its new owner. The company previously raised $2.5 million in a seed capital funding round in 2016. The terms of the ...
IBM and H2O.ai join forces to speed up machine learning training
IBM Corp. is teaming up with the artificial intelligence startup H2O.ai Inc. in an effort to speed up the training of machine learning models by using its latest POWER Systems servers. The companies today announced a partnership that involves running H2O’s Driverless AI platform atop IBM’s servers, which have been fine-tuned for training and running ...
Red Hat’s Buildah makes it easy to build container images
Red Hat Inc. is making it easier to slot software applications into a container with the release of a new open-source shell program Wednesday. The program, called Buildah, lets developers create Open Container Initiative and Docker compliant container images quickly and efficiently, the company said. Red Hat said Buildah is useful because while it’s fairly easy ...