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Report: Google to integrate Titan security chips with its cloud services
Google Inc. is set to announce additional details about its new hardware-focused security chip for its public cloud that it believes can help it differentiate its offering from rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. The new chip is called Titan, and Google will announce full details in a blog post due out on ...
Big data firm Databricks raises massive $140M funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
Big data specialist Databricks Inc. has just landed a massive late-stage funding round of $140 million to fund its expansion into artificial intelligence. The company, which was founded by the creators of the Apache Spark big data engine, said today that the Series D round brings its total capital raised to $247 million. The latest ...
Microsoft’s speech recognition systems achieve parity with humans
Microsoft Corp.’s artificial intelligence research team said it has made a significant breakthrough with its natural-language speech recognition technology. The company announced on Monday that it has finally achieved a human-parity word error rate of 5.1 percent in a conversational speech recognition task known as Switchboard, which is a collection of recorded phone conversations used ...
IT organizations are struggling to recruit skilled server staff
Information technology firms are finding it difficult to hire staff for roles across traditional servers and converged infrastructure due to a decline in the number of applicants with the necessary skills, a new report from 451 Research Inc. reveals. Because of the need to reduce costs associated with storing data in public clouds, many companies ...
Rackspace announces private cloud capabilities on VMware
Managed services company Rackspace Inc. has said it’s expanding its private cloud capabilities through VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation. The company on Monday confirmed the general availability of its Rackspace Private Cloud on VMware’s Cloud Foundation, which is a software-defined data center platform that incorporates VMware’s vSphere, vSAN, and NSX products. VMware’s Cloud Foundation can be ...
Uber sets its sights on former GE CEO Jeff Immelt
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey R. Immelt has emerged as the top candidate to take over the CEO job at Uber Technologies Inc. Recode reported over the weekend that a majority of board members at the ride-hailing company favor Immelt, citing “numerous” unnamed sources. However, there are at least two other candidates who ...
The Daily Stormer retreats to the dark web after being booted offline yet again
Neo-Nazi hate site The Daily Stormer briefly reappeared online for a few hours on Friday, only to be dumped a few hours later by its new web hosting provider. Dubbed as the “top hate site in America”, the Daily Stormer was at the center of controversy last week after a blog posted to the site ...
Flash shortage continues with no end in sight
Big chip makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. are raking in record revenue, thanks to a global shortage of flash memory, and the long-running shortage of memory chips is set to continue indefinitely, dragging down the profits of companies that make products such as smartphones, computers, networking gear and flash ...
Alibaba’s cloud computing revenue almost doubles
Chinese online retail giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. said its public cloud computing business hit 1 million paying customers for the first time and revenues nearly doubled from last year. Cloud revenue jumped 96 percent, to 2.43 billion yuan ($359 million), in its first quarter as the company said today it welcomed aboard 137,000 new customers. These ...
CoreOS brings its Tectonic Kubernetes platform to Microsoft Azure
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is making its technology more accessible with the general availability of its “self-driving Kubernetes platform” Tectonic on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The move comes as CoreOS announces the simultaneous release of Tectonic 1.7, which comes with improvements such as automated operations enabling one-click updates of Kubernetes, and monitoring alerts. CoreOS said ...