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Shared Economy Start-up Uses AI-based Compatibility Testing for Online Rental Marketplace
Seeking the next big idea in the “shared economy” pioneered by Uber and Airbnb – while also incorporating compatibility matching capabilities of dating and social media sites – an ...Full Article
AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
A new instance type rolled out this week by Amazon Web Services is based on customizable field programmable gate arrays that promise to strike a balance between performance and ...Full Article
Exabytes Hit the Road with AWS Snowmobile
Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk ...Full Article
Amazon Adds AI, SQL to Analytics Arsenal
By any measure, Amazon Web Services is already a monster in the field of analytics via pre-built Hadoop, Redshift, Kinesis, and deep learning services. With today’s unveiling of its ...Full Article
One FinServe Company’s Strategy for Feeding the CCAR Beast
Before even addressing the devilish complexity of CCAR simulations, the first problem financial services industry (FSI) firms must solve is finding the compute capacity to run resource hogging CCAR ...Full Article
AWS, VMware Scale the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud market just got far more competitive with an alliance between the leading public cloud vendor and an entrenched datacenter supplier. Along with preserving existing datacenter investments, ...Full Article
U.S. Cloud Shift Advances
U.S. government agencies' slog to the cloud, a journey that has lately been complicated by a new set of security requirements designed to fend off an outbreak of "nation-state" ...Full Article
AWS Beats Azure to K80 General Availability
Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family ...Full Article
Google Buys Cloud Software Startup
In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the ...Full Article
