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The artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI says it has developed software to build faster and more efficient neural networks that take up less memory on the graphics processing units that power them. OpenAI is a nonprofit research firm founded by Tesla Inc. …
Identity software firm Okta’s shares jump almost 5% on solid earnings
Enterprise software firm Okta Inc. delivered solid third-quarter earnings Wednesday, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus. Okta, which makes identity management software that allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each of them, said it pulled in …
Cloud computing will drive $554B in revenue by 2021
Up until now, most cloud revenue forecasts have focused on specific segments of cloud computing, but that changed today when International Data Corp. released its first report on the “whole cloud.” The new forecast encompasses just about every possible cloud service one …
Google applies machine learning to make its Sheets spreadsheet software smarter
Google LLC is building on the machine learning technology that was integrated into its spreadsheet software last year. The company said today that it’s enhancing the “Explore” feature in Sheets with new capabilities including formula suggestions and pivot tables powered by machine learning …
Alcide emerges with $5.2M seed funding to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments
Hoping to address some of the security problems inherent in what it calls the “modern data center,” a startup called Alcide is emerging from stealth mode with a new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments. The company today …
Microsoft launches preview of ‘low code’ service for building ‘internet of things’ systems
Microsoft Corp. today announced the public preview of a new service that’s designed to help enterprises easily build large-scale “internet of things” systems. The software giant said Microsoft IoT Central, which is powered by its Azure cloud, is a software-as-a-service offering that’s meant …
VMware updates NSX-T network software to support software container development
VMware Inc. took to the stage at Pivotal Software Inc.’s SpringOne Platform conference in San Francisco today to announce an updated version of its NSX virtual networking software. The virtualization giant offers two different versions of its software-defined networking software. NSX is …
Google launches new machine learning services for analyzing video and text content
Google LLC is moving forward with its effort to help developers add more layers of intelligence into their software applications, announcing general availability of two new machine learning services. The new releases pertain to Google’s Cloud Video Intelligence and Cloud Natural Language …
Pivotal Software adds serverless compute, software containers to Cloud Foundry
Software and services company Pivotal Software Inc., a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., today announced a major update to its Cloud Foundry product during its annual SpringOne Platform conference. The update adds new serverless computing capabilities to the popular developer platform, and …
CoreOS adds open-source infrastructure services to its Tectonic Kubernetes platform
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is updating its popular Tectonic platform, adding a number of open-source services that serve as alternatives to proprietary infrastructure components from public cloud companies. CoreOS’s Tectonic platform is essentially an enterprise-grade version of the Kubernetes container orchestration …