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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
Intel, Microsft Partner on Machine Vision, AI
Intel and Microsoft are reuniting to support the chip maker’s vision processing unit on the software giant’s machine learning platform. The partners said the combination would allow AI inference ...Full Article
IBM Expands ‘Quantum Ready’ Effort
IBM has enlisted large banks and automakers along with electronics, chemical and materials manufacturers to its quantum computing initiative designed to explore enterprise applications if and when the technology ...Full Article
Microsoft Embraces Kubernetes for Cloud Backup
Microsoft is collaborating with Kubernetes specialist Heptio on a backup and disaster recovery tool for the Azure cloud as well as using the startup's Ark platform to move Kubernetes ...Full Article
DoD Looks to Break Cloud Security ‘Bottleneck’
The Pentagon is looking for ways to recast is its cloud security guidelines as a way to accelerate the department's slow migration to cloud computing. Meanwhile, key cloud providers ...Full Article
AWS, Microsoft Team on ‘Open AI’
Cloud services rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are collaborating on a deep learning library designed to accelerate development of models used to construct neural networks. The open source ...Full Article
Red Hat, Microsoft Extend Alliance to SQL Server
Red Hat continues to expand its ties with major cloud providers with the addition of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server on its flagship Linux platform. Separately, the ...Full Article
Huawei, Microsoft Partner on Public Cloud
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, is partnering with Microsoft to bring server, database and other enterprise applications to the Huawei cloud. The companies announced the public cloud partnership ...Full Article
Docker Gets Upgrade as Container Market Heats Up
As concerns grow over the slow migration of application container technology beyond backend development, container leader Docker is rolling out the latest release of its enterprise container service for ...Full Article
Microsoft Bolsters Azure With Cloud HPC Deal
Microsoft has acquired cloud computing software vendor Cycle Computing in a move designed to bring orchestration tools along with high-end computing access capabilities to the cloud. Terms of the ...Full Article