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Cloud switch: GitLab migrates from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud
Google LLC has scored a small victory over Microsoft Corp. with the news Monday that GitLab Inc. is moving the entirety of its code repositories from the Azure cloud to Google Cloud Platform. GitLab provides a central code-control repository, issue-tracking environment, collaboration forum and documentation hosting service for open-source software developers. It’s probably the biggest ...
Data protection startup BigID lands its second major funding round this year
Data protection and privacy startup BigID Inc. today announced its second dose of funding this year, landing $30 million more in funding just five months after completing its $14 million Series A round. The Series B round was led by new investor Scale Venture Partners and saw participation from previous investors ClearSky Security, Comcast Ventures, BOLDstart ...
IDC report: Global spending on information and communications technology to slow
International Data Corp. said Thursday that worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications gear will rise by 3.7 percent to $4 trillion by the end of the year. But that represents a slight decline from growth of 4.2 percent in 2017, the analyst firm said. It also warned that growth will slow even further, to ...
Micron posts record profit as demand for flash memory stays strong
Chipmaker Micron Technologies Inc. posted record revenue and profits for its fiscal third quarter today as it rode a wave of continued demand for its memory products. The company reported a profit after certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.15 per share, ahead of Wall Street’s projections. The company’s revenue totaled $7.8 billion for the ...
Google’s digital assistant gets better at handling multiple requests
Google LLC is improving its digital assistant’s capabilities, adding a new feature that’s meant to enable more fluid and open-ended conversations. Continued Conversation for Google Assistant, announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, is designed to make follow-up questions feel more realistic, company officials said. “For the Google Assistant to have a natural conversation, it ...
Rackspace and HPE team on pay-as-you-go Kubernetes and VMware private clouds
Managed services company Rackspace Inc. is adding the ability to pay-as-you-go to its Kubernetes and VMware private cloud services. The pay-as-you-go pricing options, which have long been available with public cloud services, are being made available thanks to a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Rackspace customers will now be able to pay for only ...
Senzing uses real-time AI to hunt for insider threats
IBM Corp. spinout Senzing Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s first “entity resolution” software for fraud detection that uses artificial intelligence to detect bad actors accessing corporate data. Senzing’s bad guy hunting software is designed to identify “bad actors” who have managed to gain unauthorized access to company data in an attempt to ...
Lenovo unveils Neptune, a new liquid cooling system for data centers
The vast majority of data centers are kept cool using air-based data center cooling systems, but China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. is betting that things won’t always be that way, as it reckons water-based cooling tech will soon be a thing. Water-based cooling systems are nothing new, but up until now, they’ve been primarily used with ...
HPE launches GreenLake, a new hybrid cloud management service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is getting into the hybrid cloud management game, launching a set of professional services today called HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. The offering is designed to help customers manage and optimize workloads hosted in both public and on-premises clouds, the company said. HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud, which supports Amazon Web Services Inc., ...
Nvidia releases Kubernetes on graphics chips to accelerate deep-learning jobs
Graphics processing units are becoming increasingly popular in the data center to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as machine learning and deep learning. Now, Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest maker of GPUs, is pushing another use case, pairing them with Kubernetes clusters as way to accelerate training for deep-learning models. The company on Tuesday said it’s ...