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GE Healthcare speeds up medical image processing with help from Nvidia and Intel
General Electric Co.’s healthcare business is teaming up with chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. to speed up the time it takes to process medical images by taking advantage of their latest artificial intelligence systems and graphics processing unit chips. GE Healthcare said on Sunday it’s partnering with Nvidia to update more than 500,000 medical ...
Samsung to open new research center focused on AI and machine learning
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is stepping up its artificial intelligence game with the opening of a new research center focused on machine learning. The move doesn’t come too soon, because Samsung is generally perceived to be trailing its rivals when it comes to AI. The plan is for the new AI research center to be operated ...
VMware says it won’t support its virtualization software on Microsoft Azure cloud
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. has lashed out at Microsoft Corp.’s effort to steal some of its customers away, saying it won’t provide support for those that run its software stack on the Azure cloud. The statement follows Microsoft’s launch of the Azure Migrate service this week, which the software giant touted as an easy way ...
Big-data company Qubole brings Apache Spark to AWS Lambda
Big-data company Qubole Inc. is beefing up Apache Spark, making it more flexible and easier to use by giving its customers the ability to run Spark applications on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Lambda service. Apache Spark is one of the most popular big-data processing engines around, designed to execute streaming, machine learning or SQL ...
Dome9 brings context-aware security to public cloud environments
Cybersecurity firm Dome9 Security Ltd. is adding a new module to its Arc cloud security platform for public clouds. The Mountain View, California-based company said Dome9 Magellan brings “game-changing” capabilities to its platform, including enhanced threat intelligence, deep event correlation and policy-driven intrusion detection and forensics for cloud environments. Dome9’s Arc platform is a software-as-a-service offering ...
Amazon advances machine learning with new AI lab, image recognition services
Machine learning is the name of the game for Amazon Web Services Inc. this week, as it spills out a couple of major announcements ahead of its big re:Invent conference next week in Las Vegas. The public cloud computing giant said Wednesday it’s planning to open a new machine learning laboratory, called the ML Solutions ...
Qubole claims $140M in savings for AWS customers this year
Big-data-as-a-service company Qubole Inc. is making some big claims ahead of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS re:Invent conference next week, saying its data service platform has helped AWS users to save a serious $140 million in information technology costs. The announcement came as Qubole introduced what it calls “optimized support” for AWS’s per-second billing that ...
Box combines its content management services with Microsoft Azure’s cloud storage
Content management service provider Box Inc. is strengthening its partnership with Microsoft Corp with a new offering called Box Using Azure, which combines its services with Microsoft’s cloud storage. Box and Microsoft have been partners since 2016, when the pair announced a product integration that enables users to save Office files directly to Box from ...
Apache Spark rival Hazelcast Jet adds new APIs to boost developer productivity
Hazelcast Inc. is pitching an updated version of its open-source Hazelcast Jet big-data platform for stream processing. The headline feature is a new application programming interface for its in-memory data grid, which is a data structure that resides entirely in memory and is distributed among multiple servers. The company said the feature can help make the platform more accessible ...
Red Hat integrates its OpenShift container platform with AWS services
Red Hat Inc. is adding native integration with many of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services to its OpenShift Container Platform. The OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s on-premises private platform-as-a-service product, built around a core of application containers powered by Docker, with orchestration and management provided by Kubernetes, on a foundation of Red Hat ...