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Microsoft’s new Lobe app lets anyone train AI models
Microsoft Corp. today released a free desktop application called Lobe that lets Windows and Mac users create customized artificial intelligence models without writing any code. The app is already being used by several customers for tasks such as tracking tourist activity around coral reefs, the company said. Lobe is based on technology that Microsoft obtained in 2018 ...
Cloudify upgrades its cloud ‘orchestrator of orchestrators’ with new release
Cloudify Ltd. today upgraded its infrastructure orchestration platform with features designed to make it easier to manage the large number of different components that make up an enterprise’s technology environment. Cloudify Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based startup that spun out of in-memory computing company GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. in 2017. Since then, it has raised at least $7 ...
Microsoft and Honeywell strike industrial IoT analytics partnership
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with Honeywell International Inc. to integrate the Honeywell Forge industrial analytics platform with the Dynamics 365 Field Service offering and Azure. The partnership, announced Thursday, is aimed at helping enterprises optimize they manage physical assets such as commercial machinery. Honeywell is a major manufacturer of industrial equipment and related products with ...
Microsoft, MITRE and partners release adversarial AI framework
Microsoft Corp. and the federally funded MITRE research organization today released the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, a framework designed to help cybersecurity experts prepare against attacks targeting artificial intelligence models. The framework is available on GitHub. Besides Microsoft Corp. and MITRE, it also includes contributions from a dozen other organizations, including Nvidia Corp., IBM, Corp. and ...
Managed security startup Arctic Wolf nabs $200M funding round
Arctic Wolf Networks Inc., a managed security startup that offers enterprises hands-on assistance with protecting their networks, today said it has closed a $200 million investment at a $1.3 billion valuation. The raise comes just months after Arctic Wolf announced its previous $60 million round in March. The last few years have seen a sharp ...
Puppet launches new tool to automate infrastructure security compliance
Puppet Inc. today introduced Puppet Comply, a software product that enterprises can use to ensure their cloud and on-premises infrastructure adheres to cybersecurity requirements. Portland-based Puppet is the maker of one of the market’s most widely used tools for automating infrastructure management. Several of the company’s main rivals including Ansible Inc., Chef Inc. and, most recently, SaltStack ...
Gartner’s IT predictions: DNA storage, expanding CIO roles and more
Research firm Gartner Inc. thinks traditional computing technologies will “hit a digital wall” by 2025. That’s just one forecast from Gartner that it released as part of a set of end-of-year predictions from its analysts exploring how enterprise technology could evolve in 2021 and beyond. The predictions were published against the backdrop of the firm’s virtual Gartner IT ...
Google Cloud will power Rhode Island’s new Virtual Career Center
Google LLC’s cloud unit has partnered with the state of Rhode Island to host a new career portal that will provide residents seeking employment with access to job openings and related resources. The portal will also include an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to help users find the openings that are most well-aligned with their skills. ...
HPE lands $160M+ deal to build 550-petaflop research supercomputer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has landed a contract to build a 550-plus-petaflop supercomputer that will support research initiatives across ten European countries. The project, announced today, is valued at more than $160 million. The supercomputer is dubbed LUMI and will be shared by Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and ...
MongoDB Atlas goes multicloud with new clustering capability
MongoDB Inc. has equipped its Atlas managed database service with a new capability that will enable customers to distribute a single database environment across multiple public clouds. It supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Google Cloud on launch. The multicloud cluster support, announced today, comes in a time when a growing number of ...