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C3 IoT partners with Intel to bring AI to on-premises data centers
C3 Inc., popularly known as C3 IoT, has partnered with Intel Corp. on a new hardware appliance for artificial intelligence workloads that’s chiefly aimed at on-premises data center jobs. C3 IoT said today that its new appliance is a “full-stack turnkey system” that can be used to create and train deep learning and other kinds of ...
As NetApp guidance comes in weak again, shares dip and then recover
NetApp Inc. saw its share price initially dip once again after issuing disappointing guidance that eclipsed solid fourth-quarter earnings posted Wednesday. The data storage firm posted profits after certain costs such as stock compensation of $288 million, or $1.05 per share, on revenue of $1.64 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Wall Street ...
Google joins Amazon and Microsoft as a leader in cloud infrastructure, Gartner says
Google Inc.’s public cloud platform has finally entered into the big time, if Gartner Inc. is to be believed. The analyst firm has just named Google Cloud Platform as a leader in its latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, joining rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have had the ...
CloudHealth brings its monitoring capabilities to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service
Multicloud platform management provider CloudHealth Technologies Inc. is extending its product to customers using container orchestration services on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company is announcing general availability of its Container Module support for Amazon’s Elastic Container Service, which is used to run Docker containers on the AWS cloud. The idea is to ...
Microsoft and Accenture to deliver custom AI services for industry verticals
Microsoft Corp. says it’s building an array of custom artificial intelligence services for specific industries in partnership with Accenture Plc. Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial partner channels & programs, announced the initiative in a blog posted on LinkedIn. It said it builds on the customized virtual support agents it has built for ...
Facebook open-sources Katran, its latest network load balancing software
With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and technologies to do so simply don’t exist elsewhere. Not only that, but the company has a long history of sharing those developments, ...
Red Hat’s newest hyperconverged infrastructure links data centers to the network edge
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. is merging its Ceph Storage platform with its OpenStack distribution to create a new hyperconverged infrastructure product that combines compute and storage functions in a single, colocated private cloud environment. The new offering is called Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud, and it essentially bundles Red Hat OpenStack 13 ...
Cloudtenna debuts with new search software to tackle enterprise file sprawl
A startup called Cloudtenna Inc. is betting on its ability to tackle the problem of “file sprawl” in enterprises after landing $4 million in a seed funding. The round for the Sunnyvale, California-based company, announced today, was led by Blazar Ventures with participation from Citrix Systems Inc. Cloudtenna said its first product, called DirectSearch, is ...
Pivot3 aims to ease computing workload migration across AWS, Azure and Google clouds
Hyperconverged infrastructure company Pivot3 Inc. is adding new workload migration capabilities to its Intelligent Hybrid Cloud platform, a move intended to help companies move workloads among different public cloud providers more easily. In addition, the company is adding new disaster recovery capabilities for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Pivot3 said the ...
Tidelift lands $15M to deliver professional open-source support
Tidelift Inc. is raising $15 million as it looks to boost its unique open-source software model that sees companies pay for professional support of their favorite projects, allowing those that maintain them to get compensated too. The Series A round was led by the investment firms General Catalyst and Foundry Group, as well as former ...