Startup Netifi Eyes ‘Reactive’ Microservices
A microservices startup built upon open-source software designed to replace the HTTP data transfer protocol has attracted seed funding from early investors led by Dell Technologies Capital. Netifi, founded ...Full Article
Facebook to Build 970,000 Square Foot, 100% Energy Renewable Data Center
Pop Quiz: What type of building is essential to the daily operations of a global business, is nearly a million square feet in size, but has only a few ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning into Datacenters, IoT
Nvidia upped the ante on GPU acceleration for deep learning with the latest release of inferencing engine that supports a range of machine intelligence applications running in datacenters as ...Full Article
Machine Learning Fuels U.S. Patent Surge
Technology innovators intensified efforts over the last year to secure intellectual property rights on transformative technologies ranging from AI to blockchain platforms. While IBM maintained its overwhelming lead in ...Full Article
Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach
Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims ...Full Article
Facebook Unleashes Open/R Networking Software
Facebook's network routing software is now available as an open source tool for developing new network applications and functions, the company announced this week. Open/R is currently used in ...Full Article
Intel Heads List of Strong 3Q Tech Results
Intel Corp. reported strong revenue growth during its third quarter as its "data-centric" strategy begins to take hold in key technology sectors like all-flash storage. Meanwhile, it is readying ...Full Article
Facebook Expected to Move WhatsApp Off IBM SoftLayer
In a potential blow to IBM’s efforts to carve out a major share of the intensely competitive public cloud services market, Facebook is reportedly in the process of moving ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Get ‘Express Backbone’
Hyper-scalers are being forced to become more creative in breaking network bottlenecks as they cope with greater bandwidth demand for storage backup of video and other "rich" content along ...Full Article
Facebook Open Sources Caffe2; Nvidia, Intel Rush to Optimize
From its F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., today, Facebook announced Caffe2, a new open-source, cross-platform framework for deep learning. Caffe2 is the successor to Caffe, the deep ...Full Article