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Microsoft beefs up Azure Site Recovery with Flash-based cloud storage options
Microsoft is enhancing its Azure Site Recovery service with a new disaster recovery option that relies on solid-state drives instead of traditional spinning disks. Azure Site Recovery is Microsoft’s chief business continuity offering, and existing customers can replicate their most critical workloads to Azure’s Premium Storage as a backup. Instead of storing that data on ...
Apixio’s $19.3m Series D round highlights the potential of Big Data in healthcare
What with the Affordable Care Act making health insurance more widely available, healthcare providers and other medical organizations are under growing pressure to accurately predict the costs of patient care. Apixio Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based data science company, is hoping to help healthcare providers do just that. The six-year old startup offers a cognitive computing ...
Salesforce discloses $75m investments on AI startups in Q1
Salesforce.com, Inc. has disclosed that it spent approximately $75 million on acquisitions in the last quarter, when it bought out three startups. The disclosure came via regulatory filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday. In its disclosure, Salesforce revealed it shelled out a massive $32.8 million to acquire artificial intelligence (AI)-based ...
Judges use biased, racist software to determine re-offending risk
It came as a mild surprise to learn that some U.S. courts actually rely on software to predict the likelihood of convicted criminals re-offending when considering the sentences they hand out. But even more surprising is that the software they use appears to be racist towards black people. ProPublica has just carried out a sweeping, thorough ...
U.S. government publishes “voluntary best practices” for drone use
Companies and individuals should refrain from using drones to spy on their employees or their neighbors, but for news organizations it’s well within their remit to do just that. At least, according to new guidelines published by the U.S. government on how to use drones, or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), as officials now like to ...
DriveScale launches scale-out infrastructure platform, announces $15M series A
China’s electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., more commonly known as “Foxconn”, is one of several investors in a new enterprise infrastructure platform developer called DriveScale Inc. DriveScale burst out of stealth last week, announcing a $15 million series A funding round as well as the launch of its “rack-scale” platform that ...
Microsoft steps up its ‘green’ data center campaign
Microsoft’s data center operations have been officially “carbon-neutral” since 2012, but that’s not nearly good enough for Redmond’s environmentally-friendly bods. They’re not satisfied, because legal loopholes mean that data center operators don’t actually have to use renewable energy directly in order to be considered carbon-neutral, and it’s a problem Microsoft wants to remedy. Microsoft said ...
Aqua Security intros a layered approach to container security & compliance
The container security landscape has seen some significant developments over the last year, with Docker Inc. releasing its Docker Security Scanning tool and CoreOS Inc. launching its own Clair security tool. Now, a new player is entering the container security game, aiming to go further than just scanning containers for known vulnerabilities. Aqua Security Software ...
Jenkins migrates its infrastructure onto Microsoft Azure
The open-source Jenkins Project has revealed it’s collaborating with Microsoft to utilize Azure cloud resources to meet its growing infrastructure needs. Jenkins, a continuous integration and delivery solution that’s extremely popular with developers, will move its entire back-end infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. The change comes less than a month after the release of Jenkins 2.0, in ...
Salesforce expands relationship with AWS as it claims “best ever” opening quarter
Salesforce.com, Inc., has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services, and will continue doing so, according to CEO Marc Benioff. The CEOs comments came in an earnings call that followed the release of Salesforce’s Q1, 2016 results on Wednesday. The company’s shift to AWS from its own data centers appears to represent a major strategic ...