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Cisco eyes container workloads with expanded support for Kubernetes
Cisco Systems Inc. is integrating the popular container software orchestration manager Kubernetes further into its software stack. The networking giant today announced it’s adding Kubernetes support to two of its most important cloud tools, namely AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter. AppDynamics is Cisco’s cloud application performance monitoring tool, while CloudCenter is used to securely deploy and manage ...
Microsoft Ventures rebrands as M12
Microsoft Corp. has decided it’s necessary to change the name of its venture capital investment arm Microsoft Ventures: It’s now “M12.” Although the new moniker looks as though it might be more appropriate for a Latin American prison gang at first glance, it actually carries a lot of symbolism. “M12 is a promise to innovators,” ...
Google bumps up its cloud performance with Nvidia’s latest graphics chips
Google LLC’s public cloud is getting a little more oomph for more intensive workloads such as machine learning and high-performance computing with the launch today of a new batch of hardware accelerators from Nvidia Corp. Hardware accelerators are used to boost the performance of systems beyond what regular computer processors can do. The most common ...
Portworx adds new backup capabilities to its cloud container storage platform
Software container storage specialist Portworx Inc. today announced some significant updates to its platform designed to introduce greater reliability, better security and ease of use. PX-Enterprise 1.4 is Portworx’s cloud-native storage product for Kubernetes, which is the most widely used tool for managing software containers. Developers are increasingly using software containers to build their applications inside ...
RStor exits stealth with a multicloud network for deploying high performance applications
Startup RStor Inc. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $45 million in funding and a partnership with the global data center firm Equinix Inc. The company said it wants to tackle the challenges of running high-performance computing applications across multiple cloud infrastructures. RStor’s Series A round of funding was led by Cisco Systems Inc.’s ...
Microsoft brings serverless computing to software containers
Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Azure Container Instances on its cloud Wednesday, enabling developers to spin up Linux and Windows containers without needing to manage the virtual machines they run on. The ACI service brings the benefits of the emerging “serverless computing” trend to software containers. Serverless computing was pioneered by Amazon Web ...
Gartner: Enterprise AI market to hit $1.2 trillion this year
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is taking a bullish stance on artificial intelligence technologies, saying industry revenues will top $1.2 trillion by the end of this year, up 70 percent from the year before. The firm further projects in a report released today that AI-derived business value will reach $3.9 trillion by 2022. “AI promises to be ...
AMD stock jumps 12% on blowout first-quarter revenue gain
Updated: Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw its share price jump almost 10 percent in after-hours trading today after it beat Wall Street’s sales and earnings targets in its first-quarter results. The Santa Clara, California-based company posted earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation of 11 cents per share on revenue of $1.65 ...
Red Hat simplifies software-defined storage with Storage One platform
Linux company Red Hat Inc. is adding to its software-defined storage options with the release today of a new platform called Red Hat Storage One. The platform is designed to give enterprises a “plug-and-play” option for procuring and deploying SDN and tuning its performance. Storage One is available via a number of pre-engineered storage systems ...
Juniper revamps its software-defined network controller for a multicloud world
With more enterprises shifting workloads to cloud environments, Juniper Networks Inc. is updating its software-defined networking controller with new capabilities to improve control of these tasks across a range of information technology environments. Juniper envisions its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud platform as the foundation of its network automation efforts in a newly emerging multicloud world, in ...