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AT&T announces Acumos, an open-source platform for sharing and reusing AI apps
Wireless carrier AT&T Inc. is joining with the Indian information technology services provider Tech Mahindra Ltd. to create an open-source artificial intelligence platform for developers to build, share and deploy AI applications. The Acumos Project, announced Monday, will be hosted by the Linux Foundation, which said the platform will also provide a marketplace for accessing, using ...
Raising $116M in IPO, cybersecurity startup ForeScout sees shares rise 16%
Marking a potential surge in initial public offerings for cybersecurity firms, ForeScout Technologies Inc. saw its shares rise by nearly 16 percent today in their first day of trading. The San Jose, California-based company’s shares rose from their initial public offering price of $22 a share to about $25.50 today. ForeScout, which has built a security platform to ...
Intel delivers blowout earnings on back of data center growth
Intel Corp. delivered third-quarter earnings that blew past analysts expectations, prompting Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich to crow that the chipmaking giant’s product lineup is the strongest it has ever been. Krzanich’s comments came as Intel delivered record third-quarter earnings that show the company’s renewed focus on areas such as programmable devices, non-volatile memory chips, the ...
Chaos Sumo aims to make Amazon S3 data easier to access and analyze
A startup called Chaos Sumo is touting a new data discovery, management and analytics service that sits on top of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 storage to make data more easily discoverable. The company said it has pioneered a concept called “smart object storage,” allowing data held inside S3 storage instances to be analyzed without the ...
QCT unveils Rackgo R infrastructure for optimizing data center environments
Data center hardware and software provider Quanta Cloud Technology is kicking off its Q.synergy 2017 event with the launch of new infrastructure offerings for cloud service providers and telecommunications firms. Taiwan-based QCT is a subsidiary of Quanta Computing Inc. that rivals established technology giants such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell Technologies Inc. with its data center products. ...
VMware rolls out new vSphere beta program
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. is announcing a new, perpetual beta program for its main vSphere platform. The company said the new vSphere Beta Program is different from its previous beta programs because “it’s not tied to a specific version or release only.” Instead, the company said, it’s moving to a new format that sees ...
ServiceNow acquires SkyGiraffe for its low-code app development platform
Workflow automation and service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. has said it’s acquiring mobile application development firm SkyGiraffe Inc. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. SkyGiraffe has built what’s popularly called a “low-code” or “no-code” platform for building mobile applications for enterprise systems. Low-code app development involves minimizing hand-coding of applications by ...
HPE debuts new hardware and software for deep learning projects
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is the latest technology giant to get into the artificial intelligence game, announcing a new platform and services that are designed to help companies adopt AI technologies more easily. HPE said the focus of its new platform and services is on deep learning, a subset of AI that relates to the ...
With Delta, Databricks aims to make data easier to extract and process
Databricks Inc. aims to make data easier to extract and process with the launch of a new service intended to eliminate many of the hassles of juggling multiple data lakes, warehouses and streaming ingestion systems. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Ali Ghodsi introduced Databricks Delta during his keynote at Spark Summit Europe 2017 on Wednesday. He ...
PredictionIO, open-source software for building machine learning apps, gets Apache top-level status
The Apache Software Foundation said today that it’s designating open-source machine learning software first developed by Salesforce.com Inc. as its latest top-level project. The project is called Apache PredictionIO, and is described as an open-source machine learning server that lets developers and data scientists create predictive engines and services to perform machine learning tasks. The idea is to democratize ...