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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is getting into the hybrid cloud management game, launching a set of professional services today called HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. The offering is designed to help customers manage and optimize workloads hosted in both public and on-premises clouds, …
Nvidia releases Kubernetes on graphics chips to accelerate deep-learning jobs
Graphics processing units are becoming increasingly popular in the data center to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as machine learning and deep learning. Now, Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest maker of GPUs, is pushing another use case, pairing them with Kubernetes clusters as …
Database startup Crate.io lands $11M funding round
Crate.io Inc., developer of the specialized CrateDB database for real-time machine data and “internet of things” applications, said today it has raised $11 million in a funding round led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity. In addition to the Series …
MIT researchers create a neural network that can process MRI scans in under a second
Researchers at MIT say they’ve developed an algorithm capable of processing magnetic resonance images in less than a second, in what could be a crucial development for the healthcare industry. Currently, doctors need to compare two separate MRI scans taken at different …
Senate votes to block President Trump’s deal to save China’s ZTE
The Senate voted Monday to block a deal by President Donald Trump’s administration that would have removed crippling sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. Senators voted to pass an annual defense policy bill that comes with a provision ensuring that penalties …
Lacework study highlights software container vulnerabilities
New research shows that hundreds of organizations are deploying software containers in the public cloud without securing them first. Software containers, which are used by developers to build applications once that can run in any computing environment, provide benefits such as agility, …
Report: Public cloud infrastructure spending keeps surging
Synergy Research Group today popped out its latest report on the public cloud infrastructure market, revealing a relentless surge in hardware and software spending from the leading service providers. Synergy’s data shows that spending rose by 32 percent in the first quarter from the …
HPE is building the world’s most powerful ARM-based supercomputer yet
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is teaming up with Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop what will be the world’s largest and most powerful supercomputer based on an ARM chip architecture. The supercomputer, called Astra, will be used …
Cloud tax software company Avalara’s shares jump 87% on first day of trading
Cloud-based tax software company Avalara Inc. beat all expectations with its initial public offering Friday, raising $185 million as its share price jumped by 87 percent. The company priced its shares at $24 after hiking the price from an initial range of …
Adobe’s stock takes a knock despite strong earnings
Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. saw its share price take a hit late Thursday despite posting better-than-expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter. The company, best known for its creative design software products such as Photoshop, reported earnings before certain costs such …