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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces its first certified Kubernetes providers
With Kubernetes steadily gaining traction among enterprises invested in application container development, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has named six companies among its founding class of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers. The CNCF said the KCSP designation means that Accenture Plc, Booze Allen Hamilton Inc., Canonical Ltd., CoreOS Inc., Giant Swarm GmbH and Samsung SDS are ...
Qualcomm loses bid to limit Apple lawsuits as patent royalties row rumbles on
Semiconductor company Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s latest bid to force iPhone contract manufacturers to resume royalty payments worth billions of dollars has been rejected by a federal judge who said they could continue withholding payments until its dispute with Apple Inc. is resolved. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego ruled on Sept. 8 that ...
Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle highlights emerging cloud security technologies
Technology industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. Thursday published its latest Hype Cycle for Cloud Security products, which is designed to inform security personnel about which technologies are ready for mainstream adoption and which are not quite ready for prime time. Gartner said rapid growth in the adoption of cloud technologies is driving huge interest in ...
Amazon plans to open machine learning research center in Barcelona
Amazon.com Inc. intends to hire more than 100 engineers and scientists to work at a new research and development facility for machine learning that it plans to open in Barcelona, Spain, early next year. The new R&D center will be housed in the same building as Amazon’s Seller Support Hub in Barcelona’s urban renewal startup area known ...
Tintri’s shares plunge following massive loss and a light sales outlook
Flash storage systems specialist Tintri Inc. is down in the dumps today after a disappointing second-quarter earnings report, its first since launching its initial public offering in June. The company reported a huge net loss of $51.7 million, or $2.05 per share, on revenue of $34.9 million. That was an improvement on Tintri’s $7.53 per ...
Google enables faster, more secure cloud connections with Dedicated Interconnect
In an effort to make its cloud services more competitive with rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, Google Inc. is announcing a new Dedicated Interconnect option for enterprise customers seeking higher availability or lower-latency connections. In a blog post, John Veizades, product manager for Dedicated Interconnect at Google, said the ...
John Deere buys a startup that uses AI to kill weeds while leaving crops intact
Tractor maker Deere & Co., more often known as John Deere, probably isn’t the first name that comes to mind when we think about artificial intelligence. But that could be about to change with the news Wednesday that it has just acquired an AI startup that has built robots that can identify unwanted plants in ...
Intel adds new programming tools to speed adoption of FPGA custom chips for AI
Intel Corp. has spent a lot of effort pushing the concept of its Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be used to accelerate various computing tasks such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. FPGAs are a special kind of microprocessor used in data centers that can be reprogrammed on the fly and in real-time, in ...
Microsoft’s Azure App Service lands on … Linux
Microsoft Corp. has made good on an earlier promise, announcing on Wednesday that its fully-managed Azure App Service platform for building web and mobile applications is now generally available on Linux. In addition, Microsoft said the Web App for Containers functionality is also being made available on the alternative operating system. As such, container images ...
Mesosphere integrates Kubernetes with its DC/OS software container platform
Container software company Mesosphere Inc. is updating its popular DC/OS platform for building and running containerized applications, featuring a beta integration of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. The integration means that users can now install and scale up production-grade Kubernetes clusters on the DC/OS platform. This was possible before, but the DC/OS 1.10 release is ...