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HPE intros a software stack for building supercomputers
Building supercomputers is complicated even by the standards of the research institutions and other tech-savvy organizations that most commonly use them. As a result, the implementation process is often incredibly time-consuming. But Hewlett Packard Enterprise believes that it doesn’t necessarily have to be. The vendor today unveiled a toolkit called Core HPC that attempts to ...
Zokets exits stealth to simplify large-scale container clusters
The show floor at this week’s DockerCon in Seattle is teeming with vendors promising to ease the development and maintenance of containerized services. Among them is Zokets Inc., a new upstart that aims to automate not one but several of the most tedious tasks involved in the application delivery cycle. First on its checklist is ...
Red Hat launches a Docker Compose rival for running containers
Vendors are hard at work adapting their products to support the containerized workloads that are starting to appear in enterprise environments. One of the companies at the forefront of the push is Red Hat Inc., which today introduced a new native Docker management tool for Ansible, the popular automation framework it acquired last year. Users ...
What you missed in Big Data: Predicting the weather with machine learning
Thanks to modern analytics technology, weather forecasts are becoming more useful than ever before. Much of the credit goes to IBM Corp. and the researchers at its budding meteorology business. The vendor last week unveiled a service called Deep Thunder that uses machine learning to help companies optimize operations based on short-term changes in temperature ...
What you missed in Cloud: The blockchain rises
If the major infrastructure-as-a-service providers have their way, many of tomorrow’s blockchain applications will run in the public cloud. Last week saw Microsoft Corp. bring this goal a step closer by introducing a set of development tools designed to ease the implementation of distributed ledger functionality on Azure. One of the main components is an ...
Dataloop raises $5M to make IT monitoring less of a pain
Infrastructure monitoring tools have grown immensely sophisticated over recent years, but they can still be difficult to deploy and manage on a large scale. The issue is driving organizations towards providers with a more user-friendly approach like Dataloop Software Inc., which raised $5 million today from Battery Ventures and Finald’s Open Ocean to fuel its ...
IBM teams with in-flight WiFi provider GoGo to tackle air turbulence
Air turbulence is not only an aviation safety risk but a major resource drain as well: IBM Corp. estimates that airlines lose $100 million every year as a result of related maintenance costs and operational disruptions. The vendor set out to reduce the price tag this week by partnering with in-flight WiFi provider Gogo Inc. to ...
Microsoft buys bot startup Wand Labs to boost its AI chops
Many of the tech industry’s biggest players are currently working to address the chatbot trend, but few are investing more into the effort than Microsoft. The company joined the fray early on with Cortana and is now doubling down by acquiring a low-called startup called Wand Labs Inc. that has developed its own virtual assistant ...
Monitoring startup LogicMonitor joins the big leagues with $130M funding round
Nine-figure funding rounds are not unheard of in the infrastructure monitoring space, but it’s been a while since investors felt confident enough to make such a large bet. LogicMonitor Inc.’s newly announced completion of a $130 million funding round indicates that the flow of venture capital into the segment is starting to pick up again. The financing ...
Cisco’s new 39-node monitoring appliance promises “complete data center visibility”
Organizations are moving more and more of their analytics workloads to the cloud in a bid to cut costs, but a lot of data is still processed behind the firewall due to logistical reasons. Network logs, for instance, are so numerous that transmitting them to a remote third party facility is often impractical. Cisco Systems ...