The New $10B ‘Secret’ NSA Cloud Contract Awarded to AWS Is Already in Dispute
A $10 billion ‘secret’ cloud computing contract that was recently won by Amazon Web Services from the U.S. National Security Agency quickly came under fire from Microsoft Corp., which ...Full Article
AWS Shuffles Execs, 23-Year Veteran Charlie Bell is Out as New Leadership Takes the AWS Reins
A month after Andy Jassy left the CEO’s post at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in July to replace Jeff Bezos as the CEO of Amazon, some notable changes are ...Full Article
Snorkel AI Gets $85M in Round C Funding to Grow Its Programmatic Data Training Mission
For many enterprises using AI, one of the biggest bottlenecks continues to be the difficulty in getting all their critical data into clearly sorted and labeled groups so it ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: August 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Shekar Ayyar AI ...Full Article
Spell Bringing MLOps to Deep Learning to Ease the Deep Learning Path for Enterprises
Making machine learning operations easier to use, manage and organize for enterprises has always been the goal of the series of best practices known as MLOps. But while MLOps ...Full Article
Dataiku Captures $400 Million Series E Round Funding to Grow Its Data Science and ML Platform
Data science platform maker Dataiku has reeled in another $400 million in venture capital, giving it nearly $647 million in funding since it was founded in 2012. This latest ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Proposed $40B Acquisition of Arm Faces Possible Opposition from UK Official: Report
The proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm by GPU powerhouse Nvidia continues to be under review by regulators in the United States, China, the European Union ...Full Article
Enterprises Needing Accelerated Data Analytics and AI Workloads Get Help from Nvidia and Cloudera
In April, Nvidia and Cloudera unveiled a new partnership effort to bring together Nvidia GPUs, Apache Spark and the Cloudera Data Platform to help customers vastly accelerate their data ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Base Command On-Demand Platform for AI Training Now Generally Available in North America
Nvidia’s hosted AI development hub, Nvidia Base Command Platform, was unveiled in May as a way for enterprises to take on complex AI model training projects on a subscription ...Full Article
Pliops’ Extreme Data Processor Aims to Help Enterprises Make SSD Storage Faster, More Efficient
Solid state drives (SSDs) are plenty fast, but Pliops thinks they can be even faster for enterprise users with heavy data workloads. To help speed up the processing of ...Full Article
