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Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund will invest $400M in US tech startups
One of the United Arab Emirates’ largest sovereign wealth funds is establishing a base in California, with the intention of helping the Middle Eastern nation grow some of its oil profits into new technology-driven riches. That fund is the Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Co., and it has close ties to Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp., ...
IBM to add Docker Enterprise Edition to its public cloud
Software container company Docker Inc. is teaming up with IBM Corp. as it looks for ways to extend its reach into the enterprise. The companies said they’re planning to offer a special edition of Docker for IBM Cloud, with the main advantage being that they can tap into IBM’s cloud services to make applications smarter. ...
Cisco launches new predictive services to prevent IT system outages
Cisco Systems Inc. today launched a new set of artificial intelligence-powered predictive services aimed at helping customers anticipate failures in their information technology systems. The new tools include something called Business Critical Services, which can forecast system failures by leveraging an assortment of data analytics, automation, compliance and security tools. Cisco also announced a High-value ...
Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret service for handling classified data
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it’s expanding the availability of its most secure Azure Government Cloud services, making them available to other agencies besides the Department of Defense. The Redmond-based firm explained that in order to work with the DoD, it needs to satisfy a host of security requirements beyond what it does for its ...
Elasticsearch taps into Chinese markets with Alibaba Cloud
China’s leading public cloud company Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has said it’s to begin offering Elasticsearch services to software developers on its platform. Elasticsearch is a business-focused search engine for structured and unstructured data, developed by a Dutch-based company called Elasticsearch Global BV that usually goes by the name ...
Intel delivers Nervana Neural Network Processor chips for AI workloads
After pushing the concept of using Field Programmable Gate Arrays as accelerators for artificial intelligence and deep learning neural networks, Intel Corp. is taking the next step with the launch of its first batch of dedicated AI chips. The chip giant today announced it will soon ship what it says are the first processors built ...
Commvault debuts new data protection system for hybrid IT environments
Enterprise data management company Commvault Systems Inc. is debuting a new data management and protection system for companies looking for a safe way to scale out their hybrid information data center-cloud technology environments. Commvault says the new system is being offered in two ways: as an all-in-one appliance and also as a reference architecture for ...
Talend adds cloud-based data preparation tools to Data Fabric platform
Talend Inc. said today it’s updating its Integration Cloud platform to make it easier and faster for companies to extract and clean data so it can be used in their analytics operations. The main highlight of Talend’s release is the new cloud-based version of the Talend Data Preparation tool, which is designed to quickly make data available in a ...
Virtuozzo simplifies persistent data storage for Kubernetes clusters
Hyperconverged infrastructure software provider Virtuozzo Inc. has punted out a new persistent storage product for Kubernetes, which is a popular orchestration tool that’s used to manage software application containers. The move comes following this summer’s release of Virtuozzo Storage for Docker, a software-defined storage platform designed for managing Docker containers with persistent data in production. Persistent ...
Microsoft publishes new cloud map comparing Azure’s services with Amazon’s
Microsoft Corp. has published a new Azure Cloud Services Map for information technology personnel that lets them compare its range of cloud computing services against those of Amazon Web Services Inc. Like Amazon, Microsoft’s cloud services portfolio has grown in leaps and bounds over the years, and that makes it very difficult to compare the ...