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Intel unveils new 32TB, ruler-shaped SSD hailed as the densest ever
Intel Corp. has unveiled a new ruler-shaped flash drive aimed at the data center market that it hails as the densest in the world. The SSD DC P4500 (pictured), introduced late Wednesday, packs a hefty 32 terabytes of capacity. It uses 3D NAND technology, a type of flash in which the constituent memory cells are ...
It’s graduation day for Prometheus, the open-source container monitoring system
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today officially graduated Prometheus from incubation, opening a new chapter in the popular open-source project’s evolution. Prometheus is one of the most widely used systems for monitoring software container deployments. As such, the project has taken on an important role in the rise of containers, which are increasingly used to ...
Samsung pledges to invest $22B in AI, 5G and other emerging technologies
Samsung Group today unveiled a grandiose plan to invest $22 billion in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence over the next three years. The effort will be driven primarily by the conglomerate’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. arm, which makes its popular mobile devices. Last quarter, the handset maker saw profits decline for the first time in nearly ...
Oracle formally challenges the Pentagon’s controversial $10B cloud contract
Oracle Corp. has filed a formal protest against the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract in a bid to change the structure of the controversial project. The complaint, reports of which emerged late Tuesday, focuses on the government’s plans to award the deal to a single company. Oracle is pushing for JEDI to be revised so ...
Intercom rolls out new chatbot builder to automate customer engagement
Intercom Inc., a customer engagement startup that achieved unicorn status with a big funding round in March, today launched a new tool to let brands automate their interactions with users. Custom Bots is a chatbot builder that enables companies to build tailored virtual assistants. It extends Intercom’s flagship Messenger platform, a chat service for websites that can be used to ...
RiskRecon bags $25M funding round backed by Accel and Dell to tackle outside security risk
Enterprises generally rely on countless different cloud service providers, suppliers and other third parties to support day-to-day operations. Recent history has shown that it can take just one such partner to be hit by a breach for sensitive data to get compromised. Salt Lake City-based RiskRecon Inc. is one of the players trying to mitigate ...
Mozilla’s new experimental Advance tool helps Firefox users explore the web
The Mozilla Foundation’s efforts to set Firefox apart from Google Chrome have moved into a new area: content recommendation. The browser maker today introduced Advance, an experimental feature that uses machine learning to suggest new websites and online content for users to explore. It’s available as an extension downloadable through Test Pilot, the early adopter program Mozilla uses ...
Dell EMC unveils new Ready Solutions for AI and machine learning
Hot on the heels of rival NetApp Inc. introducing a new hardware platform for artificial intelligence workloads, Dell EMC today unveiled two competing offerings that target the same market. The products are rolling out under the brand Ready Solutions for AI. According to Dell EMC, they’re prevalidated designs that bring together different hardware and software components ...
Google Cloud adds Nvidia P4 graphics cards for AI and virtual desktops
Google LLC today made a new graphics accelerator available in its public cloud to provide better support for artificial intelligence and virtual desktop workloads. The chip in question is market leader Nvidia Corp.’s P4. It brings the number of Nvidia graphics processing units that Google’s cloud platform supports to four, all of which have been added since February 2017. ...
AMD debuts new 32-core desktop processor that outperforms Intel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today refreshed its Ryzen Threadripper processor line for desktops, upping the ante against Intel Corp. in a key segment of the chip market. The company is releasing four new central processing units as part of the upgrade that are based on the 12-nanometer Zen+ architecture. Two of the chips are part of a “WX” ...
