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Google enables faster, more secure cloud connections with Dedicated Interconnect
In an effort to make its cloud services more competitive with rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, Google Inc. is announcing a new Dedicated Interconnect option for enterprise customers seeking higher availability or lower-latency connections. In a blog post, John Veizades, product manager for Dedicated Interconnect at Google, said the ...
John Deere buys a startup that uses AI to kill weeds while leaving crops intact
Tractor maker Deere & Co., more often known as John Deere, probably isn’t the first name that comes to mind when we think about artificial intelligence. But that could be about to change with the news Wednesday that it has just acquired an AI startup that has built robots that can identify unwanted plants in ...
Intel adds new programming tools to speed adoption of FPGA custom chips for AI
Intel Corp. has spent a lot of effort pushing the concept of its Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be used to accelerate various computing tasks such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. FPGAs are a special kind of microprocessor used in data centers that can be reprogrammed on the fly and in real-time, in ...
Microsoft’s Azure App Service lands on … Linux
Microsoft Corp. has made good on an earlier promise, announcing on Wednesday that its fully-managed Azure App Service platform for building web and mobile applications is now generally available on Linux. In addition, Microsoft said the Web App for Containers functionality is also being made available on the alternative operating system. As such, container images ...
Mesosphere integrates Kubernetes with its DC/OS software container platform
Container software company Mesosphere Inc. is updating its popular DC/OS platform for building and running containerized applications, featuring a beta integration of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. The integration means that users can now install and scale up production-grade Kubernetes clusters on the DC/OS platform. This was possible before, but the DC/OS 1.10 release is ...
Report: Internet of Things data boom drives storage, networking and server hardware
The Internet of Things has contributed to an explosion in the amount of data being stored by enterprises. Now, those same enterprises are beginning to invest heavily in their infrastructure to extract value from that data. That’s the biggest takeaway from analyst firm 451 Research Inc.’s latest report, Voice of the Enterprise: IoT Workloads and ...
Oracle layoffs signal end of life for Sun SPARC and Solaris products
Oracle Corp. apparently has made a fresh round of job cuts, this time affecting its Solaris and Scalable Processor Architecture business units. The layoffs were revealed a few days ago by a number of employees who took to the anonymous forum The Layoff to vent their frustration at their former employer. According to some posts, ...
With new $90M funding round, Lilium aims to get electric flying taxis aloft
German aviation startup Lilium GmbH has taken an important step forward in its plans to deliver a five-seater airborne taxi called the Lilium Jet, after closing on a $90 million Series B funding round. The company said on Tuesday it was backed by investors including the royal family of Liechtenstein’s investment fund, China’s Tencent Corp. ...
Huawei expands public cloud partnership with Microsoft in China
Chinese networking giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. in an effort to grab a bigger share of the public cloud market in its home nation. The new partnership will see Huawei host more of Microsoft’s services on its public cloud. Huawei announced the expanded partnership on Tuesday at an event in ...
BT launches cloud-based platform for digital service delivery
U.K.-based telecommunications firm BT Group Plc is touting a new cloud-based “business platform as a service” offering that aims to help businesses speed up the delivery of digitized services. BT’s new Personalized Compute Management System enables customers to buy, access and bring digital services to market within just 12 weeks, the company said. It added ...