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Efficient Compute Corp. Inc. launched today with a new central processing unit that it claims is up to 100 times more energy-efficient than leading general-purpose CPUs. The company also said it raised a $16 million seed funding round led by Eclipse Ventures LLC. …
NetApp bulks up ransomware protection for AI workloads
NetApp Inc. is announcing new security features in its data storage and management systems that improve data protection and security in artificial intelligence use cases, focusing on ransomware. Citing its NetApp 2023 Data Complexity report, NetApp said 87% of senior executives ranked …
Nutanix CEO sees opportunity in VMware’s turmoil
Since hitting a low of just over $14 a share in mid-2022, Nutanix Inc.’s stock price trajectory has been mostly up and to the right. Shares closed at over $64 on Friday, nearly doubling over the past six months. The company’s fiscal …
Dell shares soar on strong earnings and growth forecasts
Dell Technologies Inc. gave its shareholders a welcome dose of good news today, reporting a surprise increase in fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter earnings and edging out analysts’ revenue expectations. The company reaffirmed earlier forecasts that it expects revenue growth to resume in the …
Oracle’s autonomous database goes distributed and global
Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of regulations, the product has all the features of the Oracle Autonomous Database with additional controls over data distribution …
StarCoder2 AI code generator released with support for 619 programming languages
ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation. The companies said StarCoder2 is faster and more flexible than its predecessor and includes features …
Broadcom/VMware targets telecom network modernization and security at the edge
Broadcom Inc.’s VMware subsidiary is rolling out new features across its 5G, software-defined wide-area network, secure access service edge and edge computing products today that are aimed at helping communications service providers modernize their networks and create new services. They include a …
Geofencing helps construction firm avoid $2.5M in equipment theft
When your business is installing the infrastructure needed to deliver network services over miles of often unpredictable territory, you need a lot of heavy equipment in the field. And sometimes that equipment gets stolen. Until four years ago, theft had been a …
Dell bids to ease cloud transformation for network service providers
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced a range of new products for communications service providers that are intended to facilitate network cloud-based operations and simplify the deployment, automation and support of disaggregated network cloud infrastructure. Citing decades of experience working with telecom providers, …
Observability startup SigScalr plans to revolutionize log search
SigScalr Inc., developer of an open-source observability application designed to process large volumes of data, is emerging today with $1.76 million in pre-seed funding. Founded by a former Salesforce Inc. observability engineer, the company’s Siglens platform is a columnar analytical database that …