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Report: Amazon Web Services to launch cloud database service next week
Reports are suggesting that Amazon Web Services will announce a PostgreSQL-compatible managed cloud service at its re:Invent conference next week. Fortune reports that the new PostgreSQL-compatible database engine will be similar to AWS’s Aurora service, the MySQL-compatible relational database engine it launched last year, which it now claims is the fastest-growing service in its history. ...
MapR intros new analytics and data scientist service for marketers
Companies can now seek the services of a data scientist to solve their marketing and sales analysis problems thanks to a new solution launched by converged data platform provider MapR Technologies Inc. The company has just released a new marketing service called the Customer 360 Quick Start Solution, which is powered by its Converged Data ...
Forrester names IBM as a leader in IoT platforms
IBM has put a huge emphasis on its Watson Internet of Things engine as it bids to become a bigger player in the public cloud market. Watson has been an ongoing project ever since 2006, and IBM has been working tirelessly to enhance its natural language processing and machine learning capabilities in recent years. Watson ...
Google’s DeepMind learns to lip-read better than humans
Google may have found a way to use machine learning technology to help millions of deaf and hearing-impaired people better understand what people are saying to them. Researchers from Google Inc.’s DeepMind artificial intelligence project, which built the boardgame-playing AlphaGo that managed to successfully defeat one of the top Go players in the world, have teamed ...
HPE launches managed services for Microsoft Azure cloud
After throwing in the towel on its own plans to build out public cloud services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has announced a portfolio of managed services for Microsoft Azure, aimed at helping chief information officers steer through their companies’ digital transformation. The move builds on a partnership HPE and Microsoft announced last year around cloud, ...
Google acquires cloud learning platform Qwiklabs
Google Inc. is furthering its cloud computing ambitions with the acquisition of Qwiklabs, which offers hands-on lab learning environments for training on major cloud and infrastructure software platforms. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Qwiklabs, which was launched in 2012, provides a virtual lab environment for developers to gain hands-on experience with Amazon ...
Alibaba Cloud extends global push with Middle Eastern, European data centers
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud has underlined its ambitions with the announcement that it’s planning to open no less than four new data centers by the end of the year, in a move it calls a “major milestone” in its global expansion. Alibaba Cloud said on Monday it’s planning to open ...
Gifts that keep on taking: Intel Security reveals most hackable devices of 2016
When it comes to Christmas gadget shopping, most of us are on the lookout for the coolest or weirdest-looking devices around, but few consider how “hackable” a gift might be. In the second edition of its “McAfee Most Hackable Holiday Gifts” list, Intel Security has the answers. The chipmaker’s security unit asked consumers what devices ...
Report: Decentralization of IT purchases widens security gaps
The rapid growth of information technology as a service is decentralizing the purchase of devices, apps and cloud services, leading to growing security concerns at large enterprises. That’s according to a new study from VMware Inc., which said its survey highlights growing concerns about IT fragmentation and the security gaps it creates. The company argues that ...
Hitachi adds content intelligence to its object storage platform
The Hitachi Data Systems unit of Hitachi Ltd. has rolled out a new object storage solution aimed at tackling the growing data volumes created by mobile devices at the edge of networks. HDS says its new solution, Hitachi Content Intelligence, can deliver data analytics and content search capabilities at the edge through the addition of ...