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Microsoft enhances voice recognition with Custom Speech Service tool
Developers have a new machine learning tool for improving speech recognition to play around with courtesy of Microsoft Corp., which launched the public beta for its Custom Speech Service on Tuesday. Custom Speech Service is designed to overcome some of the most common problems in speech recognition systems, such as people’s different accents and vocabulary, ...
Report: AWS still owns a third of the cloud infrastructure market
Amazon Web Services continues to enjoy a commanding lead over its rivals in the cloud infrastructure market, pulling in just over a third of worldwide revenues in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the research firm Canalys. Assuming Canalys’ latest figures are correct, it also means that AWS’s revenues are greater than those of ...
Taking on Apache Spark, Hazelcast launches faster data processing engine
A little-known startup called Hazelcast Inc. is hoping to steal some of the limelight from popular open-source projects Apache Spark and Apache Flink, launching what it claims is a faster and lower-latency distributed processing engine for big data. The new open-source solution Hazelcast Jet, announced today, is designed to work with the company’s flagship in-memory data grid, ...
ZeroStack uses AI to create autonomous, ‘self-driving’ clouds
Cloud computing startup ZeroStack Inc. is hoping to make the process of managing and automating hybrid clouds easier with the addition of new artificial intelligence-powered “self-driving” capabilities to its information technology management software. ZeroStack sells software that organizations can load onto their own servers, or third-party servers, thereby transforming them into what is essentially a ...
Mozilla kills off Firefox OS to double down on emerging tech
The Mozilla Foundation said it’s shutting down the remains of its connected things division, which is responsible for the failed Firefox OS and other projects. “We have shifted our internal approach to the IoT opportunity to step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial products to one focused on research and advanced development,” ...
Survey finds 90 percent of organizations struggle to optimize data centers
An overwhelming majority of data center operators believe their information technology infrastructure is unsuitable for their organization’s digital business strategy, according to a new vendor-sponsored survey on IT optimization. The survey, conducted by IDG Research and sponsored by Datalink Corp., an IT services provider that helps companies to modernize their data center infrastructure, reveals that ...
VMware extends software-defined networking push with new NSX tools
VMware Inc. is continuing to hedge its bets on the rise of software-defined networking with the release of two new versions of its NSX virtual networking software. The company on Thursday announced the release of NSX for vSphere 6.3, together with a brand new product, NSX-T 1.1, aimed at cloud native environments. The latter release is ...
Tableau shares spike 14 percent after it blows past earnings target
Tableau Software Inc. saw its share price shoot up 14 percent in after-hours trading following a fourth-quarter earnings report that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The data visualization software maker posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 26 cents per share, down 7 cents from last year, on revenues of $250.7 million, up 24 ...
AT&T donates its software-defined networking code to the open-source community
The Linux Foundation announced on Wednesday that it’s creating a new open networking automation project for virtual network functions using code donated by telecommunications provider AT&T Inc. Virtual network functions refers to virtualized tasks done in software that were formerly carried out by proprietary, dedicated hardware. With VNF, network functions are moved away from dedicated hardware ...
Report: Insider trading finds a lucrative home on the dark web
Insider trading has found a prosperous breeding ground in the so-called dark web, as a number of marketplaces have emerged to sell corporate secrets to dodgy traders. U.S. risk management firm RedOwl Analytics and Israeli threat intelligence company IntSights said in a new report published Wednesday that the dark web marketplaces enable insider trading by selling ...