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Packet provides more oomph for IoT deployments at the network edge
Bare-metal server infrastructure company Packet Hosting Inc. today said it’s forging a partnership with a networking company called Netronome Systems Inc. on a hardware platform designed to power cloud-native workloads at the network edge. Packet is an interesting startup that’s gaining attention with enterprises for its developer-friendly hosting service that provides highly customizable infrastructure for ...
AI brain builder Neurala automates video annotation to speed up deep learning
Artificial intelligence software company Neurala Inc. is boosting its Brain Builder deep learning platform with a new automated video annotation tool it says can significantly speed up the time it takes to prepare data used to create neural networks. Neurala has gained lots of attention in recent months with its AI platform, which attempts to mimic the ...
Import.io lands $15.5M to make public data more usable for enterprises
Web scraping company Import.io Corp. is hoping to establish itself as a leading player in a somewhat unheralded niche that involves analyzing publicly available data and using it to provide businesses with all manner of useful insights. Import.io’s optimism stems from its $15.5 million Series B funding round, announced today, which it says will be ...
Virtustream adds automation tools to help migrate apps to the cloud
Enterprise cloud and managed services company Virtustream Inc. says the new capabilities in its latest platform release make it easier than ever to migrate on-premises software applications to the cloud. The company, which is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., said the new version of its Virtustream Enterprise Cloud released today comes with significant cloud ...
Impending IBM acquisition overshadows Red Hat’s earnings
Open-source software company Red Hat Inc.’s stock remained flat today after posting its first earnings call since IBM Corp. announced it intends to buy the firm for $34 billion. Once that deal is completed, likely in the latter half of next year, Red Hat will no longer be a publicly traded entity, which perhaps explains ...
Oracle stock rises on solid earnings beat, but long-term concerns remain
Oracle Corp. gave its investors a bit of temporary relief today with a fairly solid fiscal second-quarter performance that came in just above expectations. The database giant reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.33 billion, or 61 cents per share, up from $2.21 billion, or 52 cents per share a year ...
Facebook open-sources PyText framework for building natural-language systems
Facebook Inc. wants to help make it easier for developers to build and deploy artificial intelligence-based natural language processing systems. To do so, today it’s open sourcing a new NLP modeling framework called PyText that it said helps to bridge the gap between experimenting with such systems and getting them up and running in production. ...
IBM rolls out new platform to address bias in AI decision making
IBM Corp. is trying to mitigate the problem of bias in artificial intelligence-based decision-making with a new platform released early today that can inform people how AI models come to their conclusions. The company said AI OpenScale is needed because a significant portion of businesses simply don’t trust AI enough when it comes to making ...
GE to spin off digital business as a standalone industrial IoT company
General Electric Co. ended months of speculation about the fate of its digital business unit today, saying it plans to spin it off as a standalone industrial “internet of things” company. GE has also decided to sell a majority stake in its ServiceMax field service management software, which was a part of the GE Digital ...
Microsoft creates an A/B testing tool called Clarity
Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new web analytics tool called Clarity that’s designed to help developers understand user behavior at large scale. The tool can help developers to work out why website users struggle or run into problems and why they abandon a site altogether. The so-called A/B testing tool works by comparing two versions of ...