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What you missed in Big Data: Gaming meets AI
More and more companies are starting to explore the potential applications of artificial intelligence in their markets. Last week saw Chinese gaming titan Beijing Kunlun Technology Co. Ltd. join the fray with the launch of a new subsidiary in Palo Alto that will be tasked with researching how neural networks can increase the appeal of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Upping the ante
Despite the fact that organizations are increasingly opting to rent hardware from cloud providers instead of purchasing their own, Moore’s law is still very much factoring into infrastructure spending. The latest example of its indirect influence came last week when Rackspace Inc. introduced a new generation of bare-metal servers that promise to provide a significantly bigger bang for the ...
Bad patch leaves Java susceptible to remote exploitation
As if the possible presence of undiscovered exploits in their applications wasn’t enough cause for worry, Oracle Corp. customers will now also have be mindful of known faults that are supposedly already fixed. A new report from Polish consultancy Security Explorations that was picked by PCWorld this morning reveals how a vulnerability patched back in ...
HPE goes after IBM’s Watson with new cloud-based deep learning platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise may have given up on competing in the infrastructure-as-a-service market, but the other elements of its plan to expand beyond the data center are coming along on schedule. After nearly a year and a half of testing, the company this morning launched a managed analytics platform that attempts to challenge IBM Corp.’s Watson Developer ...
Tableau acquires German database startup to enable real-time visualization
It’s always an exciting sign of things to come when a big-name vendor rushes to buy a promising new startup before its technology even has a chance to hit the market. EMC Corp.’s purchase of DSSD Inc. two years ago resulted in the development of the world’s fastest flash array, and now Tableau Software Inc. ...
HPE debuts “highest-performing” converged flash array on the market
The enterprise storage market appears to be witnessing yet another round of vendor one-upmanship, this time on the performance front. Less than two weeks after EMC Corp. pulled back the curtains on an all-flash system described as the fastest of its kind on the market, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is introducing a platform that claims the same ...
Salesforce and Microsoft try to mend rocky relationship with Outlook integration
It’s shaping up to be an exciting week for Salesforce.com Inc. users. Three days after introducing new security functionality designed to combat data theft, the customer relationship management giant is integrating its popular inbox add-on with Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook. The move appears to mark a thaw in the up-and-down relationship between the two technology giants. Salesforce.com ...
Plexxi wants to bring the network into sync with the rest of the data center
The centralized manner in which a software-defined network can be managed makes it much faster to perform configuration changes than traditional setups that require every affected piece of hardware to be updated individually. But the task often still necessitates a great deal of manual tinkering, which can lead to delays that have the potential to ...
IBM opens its first cloud data center in Africa
African organizations that rely on IBM Corp.’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform will no longer have to keep their applications in another continent from now on. The vendor is inaugurating a new data center in Johannesburg today that aims to address the growing infrastructure demands of the region’s budding private sector. The market for cloud services in South ...
Watch out, Slack! Cisco launches $150M fund to boost rivaling collab service
Cisco Systems Inc. may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of enterprise collaboration software, but it’s starting to make big waves in the segment. The technology giant this morning launched a $150 million program designed to encourage the development of third party functionality for its Spark communications platform. The move is ...
