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Microsoft slims down Windows Server Core container operating system
Microsoft Corp. has managed to slim down the already slimmed down version of its operating system for virtualized and software container environments. Windows Server Core, as the operating system is known, does away with nonessential components such as a fancy user interface in order to use less system resources. This lightens the load on the ...
Cumulus Networks lands $43M funding as investors bet on shift to open networks
Open networking company Cumulus Networks Inc. has closed on a $43 million late-stage funding round as it bids to capitalize on an enterprise shift to more agile data center operations that can change quickly with shifting needs. The Series D financing round was led by Telstra Ventures, the venture capital arm of Australian telecommunications giant ...
AI research guru Yann LeCun shifts role at Facebook as new AI boss joins
Facebook Inc. is restructuring its artificial intelligence research teams, hiring a new leader to head up its research lab and Applied Machine Learning group, which implements AI tech into many of its products. Yann LeCun (pictured), a prominent AI expert who founded and led Facebook’s AI research lab, is stepping down to take on a ...
Facebook acquires online identity authentication startup Confirm
Facebook Inc. said today it has acquired Confirm Inc., a startup specializing in authenticating government-issued identity documents, for an undisclosed amount. The social media giant isn’t saying what it intends to do with the technology. But the acquisition comes amid broader efforts by Facebook to confirm the identities of its users to protect their accounts and ...
Rainforest QA lands $25M funding round to expand its human software testing platform
Software testing provider Rainforest QA Inc. is gearing up for expansion after landing a $25 million round of funding. The Series B round was led by SVB Capital, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Capital, Rincon Ventures and Initialized Capital, bringing the firm’s total funding to $41.2 million to date. Rainforest QA is ...
Megadeals propel venture capital investments to record high in 2017
The amount of money invested into startups hit a new annual high in 2017 as venture capital firms made big bets on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and automotive systems. KPMG Enterprise, a subsidiary of KPMG Services Pte. Ltd., said in its Q4 Venture Pulse report released today that $46 billion was invested in ...
Intel asks users to hold off patching Meltdown and Spectre security bugs
Intel Corp. has told its hardware and software partners to stop distributing a security patch intended to fix the Meltdown and Spectre bugs that affect the majority of computers using its processor chips. The chipmaker began rolling out the fix in December, even before news of the bugs was leaked. However, users have reported side ...
Portworx teams up with HPE to accelerate container workloads
Software container company Portworx Inc. is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. on a new approach to deploying and scaling containerized workloads faster. Portworx said in its pitch Thursday that the rise of on-demand applications such as ride-hailing apps is fueling a demand for cloud-native and container-based frameworks that can scale to meet growing performance requirements. Software ...
Enterprises say big data analytics and AI are their top IT priorities for 2018
Analyst firm 451 Research Inc. has dug up some interesting tidbits about how enterprises are embracing emerging technologies in its inaugural Voice of the Enterprise Digital Pulse survey released late last week. The finding with the biggest potential implications is that 60 percent of enterprises say they’ll be running the majority of their information technology ...
IBM expands AI partnership with Salesforce
IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are expanding their partnership on all things artificial intelligence by integrating Big Blue’s Cloud and Watson services with the Salesforce’s Quip and Service Cloud Einstein products. The company’s alliance was struck last March, when the pair announced they’d be integrating Watson with Salesforce’s relatively newer Einstein AI tech. At the ...