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Google’s Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep services now generally available
Google LLC today announced the graduation of two more cloud services from beta. As of today, Google Data Studio, a free business intelligence tool, and Cloud Dataprep, which is used to prepare data for analysis, are generally available. Data Studio has actually been around since May 2016. When it was launched in preview, Google said ...
Portworx adds data management capabilities to its container storage product
Container storage company Portworx Inc. today added a software development kit to its PX-Enterprise platform, giving enterprises a way to automate cloud-native storage and data management. PX-Enterprise is Portworx’s cloud-native storage product for Kubernetes, which is the most widely used tool for managing software containers. Developers are increasingly using software containers to build their applications inside ...
Alibaba and Intel team up to deliver better cloud, IoT and 5G services
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. might be busy developing its own computer chips for tasks such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, but those plans don’t seem to have put it off from relying on other chipmakers for other uses. In fact, Alibaba said today at its Yunqi Cloud Computing Conference 2018 in Hangzhou it’s actually ...
Alibaba outlines plans to build its own AI chips and quantum processors
China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has set up its own semiconductor manufacturing business and will soon begin building its own chips for artificial intelligence workloads, with further plans to build quantum processors down the road. The news was revealed Wednesday by Alibaba Chief Technology Officer Jeff Zhang during a press conference at the company’s Cloud Computing ...
Red Hat stock drops after miss on revenue targets and guidance
Updated: Red Hat Inc. endured a miserable after-hours trading session that saw its stock fall as much as 7 percent following a poor second quarter that saw it miss revenue targets and deliver guidance below forecasts. The company, which sells support for an array of open-source software and services for enterprises, reported earnings before certain ...
Google rolls out more cloud platform updates at Tokyo Next conference
Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo ’18 conference. The company made a raft of announcements early Thursday in Tokyo, including general availability of its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, new tools for developers, a vulnerability scanning feature for its Container ...
With support for Microsoft’s Power BI, Qubole powers more interactive data analytics
Qubole Inc. is giving its users another option to dig into their data and gain further insights through an integration with Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI business analytics service. Qubole sells a popular cloud-based platform that allows workers without coding skills to connect to and analyze big data. The Qubole Data Service, released today, provides a ...
Stormy weather for traditional IT: Cloud spending edges closer to ‘tipping point’
Cloud computing will account for more than $1.3 trillion worth of information technology spending by 2022, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The analyst firm, in its “Market Insight: Cloud Shift — 2018 to 2022” report published today, said that across key areas of IT spending, including application software, business process outsourcing and system infrastructure ...
Kong releases version 1.0 of its open source API management platform
Enterprise application programming interface management company Kong Inc. today announced the 1.0 release of its open-source technology platform. The company says Kong 1.0 is now “feature-complete” and ready to serve as a foundation for developers looking to build a cloud-native microservices information technology architecture that can leverage advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. ...
GTI launches a high-performance, low-power custom chip for IoT devices
Specialized computing chips that can be customized for modern workloads such as artificial intelligence processing are all the rage. Now, a startup called Gyrfalcon Technology, Inc. is joining in with a new application-specific integrated circuit for “internet of things” devices that enables high-performance and low-power AI at the network edge. GTI said today it’s taking ...