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Google LLC continues to make progress on the machine learning front, announcing today the general availability of its Cloud Text-to-Speech service as well as improvements to its Cloud Speech-to-Text service, which remains in beta. Google’s Text-to-Speech service is intended to help companies …
Cloud cost optimization firm Spotinst raises $35M in new funding round
Israeli cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spotinst says it has “hyperexpansion” on its mind after raising a new funding round worth $35 million. The Series B round, led by Highland with participation from previous investors Leaders Fund, Intel Capital and Vertex Ventures, brings …
AMD’s new Radeon Pro card offers high-end graphics visualization for cloud data centers
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is targeting mobile workers with the launch Monday of a new Radeon Pro graphics card for data centers that’s designed to deliver powerful visualization in the cloud for remote workloads. The Radeon Pro V340 graphics card for data center …
VMware buys CloudHealth to bulk out its nascent cloud services
While VMware Inc. was busy pushing its multicloud credentials with the announcement of a “digital foundation” of software and storage virtualization platforms, the company also made a notable acquisition designed to further that strategy. The company on Monday said it’s acquiring CloudHealth …
VMware’s new cloud services aim to automate operations across hybrid clouds
Updated: Building on plans to be announced today to build a “digital foundation” for companies using multiple cloud computing systems, VMware Inc. today unveiled a wide swath of new cloud services designed to help enterprises manage those operations. VMware Cloud Services is a …
At VMworld, VMware pushes a ‘digital foundation’ for hybrid cloud computing
Updated: Hoping to extend its hard-won leadership in corporate data centers into the cloud computing era, VMware Inc. is using its VMworld 2018 conference that opens today to showcase its growing cloud credentials — especially in managing operations on multiple clouds. During a …
Amazon adds new options and slashes the price of AWS Lightsail instances
Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small businesses and developers that either cannot afford to pay for, …
Big-data firm Splunk’s stock surges 17% on strong earnings
Updated: Big-data company Splunk Inc.’s share price is spiking again after another successful quarter. The company today posted a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 71 cents per share on revenue of $388.3 million, up 39 percent from the same period a year ago. …
Intuit replaces CEO Brad Smith with EVP Sasan Goodarzi
Finance software provider Intuit Inc. saw its share price take a hit today on the news that its chief executive officer and chief technology officer are both stepping down at the end of the year. Intuit CEO Brad Smith said on Thursday …
Red Hat aims to help companies migrate to a modern IT infrastructure
Business enterprises aren’t shy about their desire embrace “digital transformation,” and the companies that provide much of their information technology infrastructure are falling over themselves to help make it happen. Red Hat Inc., which supplies a wide range of IT tools and …