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Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down

By Mike Wheatley Apr 2, 2018

Google LLC is shaking things up at the executive level amid reports that its search and artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea is stepping down. Computer scientist Giannandrea (pictured) took over the unit when Google’s…

Cloud

Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud

By Mike Wheatley Apr 1, 2018

Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in Iowa and Paris. The…

Infra

No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2018

The global semiconductor industry recorded its best year in more than a decade in 2017, with annual revenue jumping by 22 percent over the previous year, to $429.1 billion. That’s according to new data…

Cloud

CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime…

Apps

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users…

Apps

IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

IBM Corp. is reaching out to software coders with a new application development environment called Microclimate that supports multiple cloud platforms. IBM reckons that Microclimate has everything a developer needs to simplify and speed…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers

By Mike Wheatley Mar 28, 2018

Microsoft Corp. has posted an update about how its Project Brainwave deep learning acceleration project is being used to power Bing’s search service. Project Brainwave is an extension of Microsoft’s development work on field…

Infra

Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’

By Mike Wheatley Mar 28, 2018

Juniper Networks Inc.’s open-source OpenContrail project to create a software-defined network is being rebranded. The project, housed by the Linux Foundation, has been renamed as “Tungsten Fabric” in an effort to encourage more outside…

Infra

Cisco and Microsoft fight for dominance in enterprise collaboration software

By Mike Wheatley Mar 28, 2018

The worldwide market for enterprise collaboration software hit a new all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2017, growing by just under 10 percent for the year, according to new data from Synergy Research…

Cloud

Google adds 3 free application monitoring tools to its cloud platform

By Mike Wheatley Mar 28, 2018

Google LLC is making the same software it uses to test the performance of its internal applications in production available on the Google Cloud Platform. The new products, introduced today, are designed to help…

Mike Wheatley

Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down

No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps

Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers

Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’

Cisco and Microsoft fight for dominance in enterprise collaboration software

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