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VMware buys CloudCoreo to improve cloud application security
VMware Inc. is stepping up its cloud security game, acquiring a company called CloudCoreo that sells configuration management software. The virtualization software giant said Wednesday that CloudCoreo’s team of less than 10 employees will be joining its Cloud Services business unit. Meanwhile, CloudCoreo’s products will be integrated into VMware’s much bigger portfolio. The companies didn’t reveal ...
MIT researchers develop neural network chip that’s 95% more energy efficient
Many of the recent breakthroughs made in artificial intelligence, such as facial recognition and natural language processing systems, simply wouldn’t be possible without the help of neural networks. Neural networks refer to the tightly bound connections of processors that can ingest massive amounts of data and make sense of it. But the growth of these ...
OpenText acquires cloud collaboration platform provider Hightail
Enterprise information management company OpenText Corp. today announced the acquisition of Hightail Inc., which offers a cloud-based collaboration and file sharing service, for an undisclosed price. Hightail might not be a big name, but the company has been quietly doing its stuff for 14 years. It began its life as YouSendIt Inc., offering a tool for ...
Cloud-native group seeks interoperability for serverless computing
Serverless computing is rapidly emerging as a viable option for enterprises looking to run cloud-native workloads, according to a new whitepaper published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation this week. The CNCF defines serverless computing as a framework for building and running applications that do not require server management. With serverless computing, the cloud hosting provider ...
RightScale’s State of the Cloud report shows Microsoft Azure gaining on Amazon
Enterprises are showing no signs of slowing down in their race to move applications and data into the cloud, challenges around security and spending remain. But the battle among cloud providers for the top spot is getting more interesting, with Microsoft Corp. making inroads on leader Amazon Web Services Inc. and others gain ground as ...
Gartner: Almost half of all CIOs are planning to pilot AI projects soon
Artificial intelligence may still be seen by some companies as something of an emerging technology, but that won’t be the case for long: Almost half of the chief information officers quizzed in a new survey by Gartner Inc. say they plan to deploy AI systems in the future. Gartner’s latest CIO Agenda Survey, released today, ...
Twilio breezes past earnings target as CFO bids farewell
Twilio Inc. saw its share price rocket by more than six percent after reporting fourth-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The cloud communications platform-as-a-service company reported a net loss of $20.2 million, or 20 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. Earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation amounted to a loss ...
Qubole teams up with Snowflake Computing to enable faster training of AI models
Having tackled the challenge of making the big-data management software Hadoop easier to user and providing more organizations with access to comprehensive data analytics, Qubole Inc. now wants to do the same with the streaming data management software Apache Spark. To that end, the company today said it’s teaming up with cloud data warehouse firm ...
Deepfence pitches ‘security as a microservice’ to shore up container defenses
Application security startup Deepfence Inc. is pitching a novel way to protect software containers with the launch today of a new “Security-as-a-Microservice” product. Software containers are an emerging technology increasingly popular with developers and large enterprises in general, because they provide an easy way to build applications that can run on any hardware or operating ...
Google brings its Accelerated Mobile Pages feature to email
Google LLC is expanding the capabilities of its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages framework that’s designed to make mobile web pages more interactive and faster to load. The AMP framework was initially targeted at publishers as a way of making their content more accessible, and now Google wants to bring its features to email as well. ...