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Chipmaker Marvell buys Cavium for $6B to expand into networking gear
Updated: The semiconductor manufacturing industry is consolidating further with the news Monday that chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Cavium Inc. for $6 billion. The acquisition, expected to close in mid-2018, will enable Marvell to diversify from a large business selling chips for storage gear by expanding into networking equipment with the acquisition. “As networking ...
Amazon backs ONNX, an open-source tool that makes deep learning models more flexible
Amazon Web Services Inc. is throwing its weight behind an open-source tool that makes it easier for artificial intelligence developers to switch their projects to different software frameworks without having to rewrite them from scratch. The Open Neural Network Exchange project is a format for deep learning neural networks, which enable machines to learn tasks ...
Facebook open-sources its Open/R networking development platform
Facebook Inc. has made the network routing software it uses to build new network applications and functions available via an open-source license. The software is called Open/R, and Facebook currently uses it to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. “We have been working with external partners and operators to support ...
Big data indeed: Splunk shares leap 14% as earnings beat estimates
Big-data services provider Splunk Inc. saw its shares jump nearly 14 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after delighting Wall Street with fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ targets. The company also issued better-than-expected guidance for the coming quarter. Splunk is one of the leaders in big-data software, which is used by companies to analyze and gain ...
To speed up machine learning, Algorithmia adds an AI layer to the infrastructure stack
A startup called Algorithmia Inc. is pitching a new software platform for developers who don’t have the specialized infrastructure needed to run artificial intelligence technologies. The company said its new Algorithmia AI Layer can accelerate the deployment of AI and machine learning models inside software applications. Designed for companies that want to build large AI ...
NetApp shares jump 15% thanks to solid flash storage revenue growth
NetApp Inc.’s all-flash memory storage array business gathered new momentum during its fiscal 2018 second quarter, helping the company to beat Wall Street’s forecasts on profit and revenue. The data and storage management company posted earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation of 81 cents per share on revenue of $1.42 billion. Net income ...
Cisco stock rises 6% as newer businesses get more traction
Networking company Cisco Systems Inc. impressed shareholders Wednesday after reporting better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter revenue, driven by strong growth in its newer businesses such as applications and security. The technology giant posted a net income of $2.4 billion, or 48 cents per share. Profit after certain costs such as stock compensation came in at 61 cents per ...
Panoply accelerates data integration with its smart data warehouse
Startup Panoply Ltd. is making its cloud data warehouse into generally available to help companies access their data and analyze it more easily. Panoply said its autonomous Smart Cloud Data Warehouse essentially provides data management-as-a-service capabilities that don’t require any human input to turn data into actual insights. The company further claimed its smart data ...
Google debuts TensorFlow Lite to enable machine learning on mobile devices
Google LLC is launching a lightweight version of its open-source TensorFlow machine learning library for mobile platforms. Announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, TensorFlow Lite is now available for both Android and iOS developers in preview. TensorFlow is an open-source software library that was released in 2015 by Google to make it easier ...
Panzura aims to make data in software containers available anywhere
Unstructured-data management company Panzura Inc. is integrating its intelligent hybrid cloud storage platform with Docker, making data more available for applications deployed in software containers in any location. Software containers are an alternative to virtualization that abstract applications away from the underlying hardware, so they can be run on any computing platform. Docker Inc.’s Docker ...