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Micron beats earnings forecast but shares fall on plans to hike production capacity
Flash memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. posted big gains in its latest earnings report Thursday and said it’s planning to spend some of its cash to build new production facilities. The company reported a profit after certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.82 per share on revenue of $7.35 billion in its fiscal ...
Facebook donates updated Big Basin server design to the Open Compute Project
Facebook Inc. has released an updated version of its open-source graphics processing unit-based server design “Big Basin” to the Open Compute Project. Facebook launched the OCP to help other companies build more efficient server and storage systems for their data centers based on so-called “white-box” hardware, which is cheaper and usually unbranded gear. The initiative ...
Google steps up cloud protection with more than 20 security enhancements
Google LLC is always on the lookout for ways to boost uptake of its public cloud computing services, adding new features and establishing partnerships to compete more effectively with rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. And these days, no aspect of the cloud is more important than security. As Google has ...
Paperspace launches Gradient, a new service for training AI models in the cloud
High-performance cloud computing startup Paperspace Inc., which offers virtual desktop services with a focus on media-rich applications and 3-D graphics, is now taking aim at machine learning. The company has just launched Gradient, a new cloud-based development platform designed for building, training and deploying machine learning models. The Gradient service runs on Paperspace’s graphics processing ...
IBM and Apple bring machine learning to business-focused iOS apps
IBM Corp. and Apple Inc. are expanding their existing four-year-old pact to bring business applications to iOS devices. The crux of the announcement Tuesday at IBM’s Think conference in Las Vegas is that the companies are integrating their respective artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in order to make iOS enterprise applications smarter. They’ve also built a ...
Microsoft announces preview of Windows Server 2019, with a release date set for late 2018
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Windows Server 2019 in preview, along with details of the most pertinent new features in the platform. In addition, the company said it will be released into general availability in the second half of this year, but it warned customers that they can expect to pay more for ...
Microsoft’s Project Denali bids to standardize flash storage in the cloud
Microsoft Corp. today announced more details of a new project called Denali, a new specification for managing solid-state flash memory storage drives in the cloud. At the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California today, the company also discussed Project Cerberus, which provides an additional security layer for data center services. Microsoft is one of the leading ...
Amazon adds ‘hotspot’ data anomaly detection feature to its Kinesis Analytics tool
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it’s extending the machine learning capabilities of its Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics tool to detect so-called “hotspots” in streaming data, enabling it to provide greater insights than before. Launched in 2016, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the public cloud giant’s real-time processing engine for streaming data. The service lets ...
Snowflake partners with Segment to analyze customer data rapidly
Cloud data warehouse company Snowflake Computing Inc. is integrating its platform with Segment.io Inc., a provider of data segmentation and analytics services. The companies say the idea is to provide a comprehensive data solution for enterprises to aggregate and analyze customer data at scale. With the integration, Segment’s customers gain access to Snowflake’s cloud-based elastic data warehouse, ...
Linux Foundation intros new hypervisor project Acrn for the internet of things
The Linux Foundation today released details of a new hypervisor reference project for scenarios such as the “internet of things” and other embedded devices. It’s called Project ACRN and it’s made of two central components: the hypervisor itself and also its device model. The creators of the project will also build a Linux-based Service operating system, and ...