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Google rents Nvidia graphics chips in its cloud for machine learning
Google Inc. is touting the beta test of a new cloud service that lets customers rent Nvidia Corp. graphics chips running in its data centers to do machine learning and other computing-heavy workloads. The program, launched Tuesday, allows Google cloud customers in three U.S., Asia and Europe regions to spin up Graphics Processing Unit-based instances, ...
Intel accelerates 5G push with new products, partners and platforms
Having been all but shut out of the first wave of the mobile computing revolution, Intel Corp. is moving to make sure lightning doesn’t strike twice. Ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company today is revealing a sweeping set of products, plans and partnerships that it hopes will position it at ...
Foundation’s ‘Open Innovation Pipeline’ aims to advance software-defined networking
The Open Network Foundation has announced a new development framework that aims to advance software-defined networks and network virtualization through open-source platforms, network device disaggregation and new network standards. The new initiative is called the Open Innovation Pipeline, which builds on earlier efforts to leverage SDN and network function virtualization, which aim to make networking ...
Report: Legacy software problems are driving new ‘low-code’ development approach
The rise of cloud computing has made enterprise software more accessible than ever before, but the quality of code and its ability to streamline daily business operations still falls short. That’s according to a new vendor survey, which finds that as a result of that shortfall, an emerging agile software development technique known as “low ...
Microsoft pushes DocumentDB database as sub for ransomware target MongoDB
Microsoft Corp. is hoping to capitalize on the recent spate of ransomware attacks on MongoDB database installations by pitching its alternative DocumentDB solution to developers. In a blog post titled: “Dear #MongoDB users, we welcome you in #Azure #DocumentDB,” the company reaches out to MongoDB developers who might have been hurt or just worried by ...
Microsoft brings AI to healthcare with new partner program
Already established as a major player in artificial intelligence, Microsoft Corp.. is aiming to make the technology a foundation of the healthcare industry with the launch Thursday of a new partnership program called Healthcare NExT. The program brings together Microsoft’s latest innovations in AI with its Azure cloud computing capabilities in an effort to advance ...
Report: Microsoft, Google gaining on Amazon in the public cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s rivals are gaining on it thanks to the rise of hybrid cloud adoption among enterprises, according to a newly published cloud report by RightScale Inc. RightScale’s annual State of the Cloud Report reveals that the shift to multi-cloud infrastructure away from on-premises hardware has resulted in significant gains in market share for Microsoft ...
Amazon updates tool to move data from Oracle and Teradata to its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. is hoping to win over more customers from Oracle Corp. and Teradata Corp. by allowing them to import data into its own cloud data warehouse, Amazon Redshift. The cloud giant announced an update Thursday to its Schema Conversion Tool, which can now migrate data stored in commercial relational databases offered by Oracle ...
Microsoft open sources VR-based simulator for drones and robots
Microsoft Corp. wants to make life easier for drone and robotics developers. On Wednesday, the software and cloud giant released an open-source software toolkit called AirSim that allows developers to test their new creations within the safety of a simulated world. The new virtual reality technology originates from a Microsoft Research project called the Aerial ...
Dell EMC brings Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution to VxRail appliances
Dell EMC is stepping up its hybrid cloud push by making its Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud available on VxRail appliances, which combine computing and storage in one server. EHC is Dell EMC’s engineered solution for hybrid clouds. It’s billed as an integrated and tested engineered solution that aims to deliver shorter time to value than ...