Intel sets its crosshairs on artificial intelligence
Intel has set its targets on the world of artificial intelligence, as it continues to bolster its armoury to capitalize on the potentially lucrative IoT segment.
Intel has set its targets on the world of artificial intelligence, as it continues to bolster its armoury to capitalize on the potentially lucrative IoT segment.
Virtual reality may well have been capturing the imagination of the industry in recent months, but Intel’s $400 million of AI start-up Nervana highlights it’s not all fun and games.
Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire data analysis specialist Coolan, following numerous data centre outages in recent months.
Intel has reported 3% growth, including a 5% boost in its data centre business, though the client computing unit continues its slow decline.
Microsoft has reported 5% revenue growth to $22.6 billion as the Intelligent Cloud business unit led the charge, with the Azure cloud offering more than doubling in revenues and compute usage.
Oracle and Fujitsu have announced a partnership to deliver Oracle cloud application and platform services to Japanese customers.
Equinix has announced the sale of eight data centres across Europe to Digital Realty Trust for approximately $874 million.
A consortium of tech giants including Google and NEC has completed the construction and end-to-end testing of a new trans-Pacific submarine cable system.
US data centre chip maker Cavium is to acquire networking infrastructure company QLogic to drive scale in the data centre and storage markets.
Verizon has completed the launch of its NFV OpenStack cloud deployment project across five of its US data centres, alongside Big Switch Networks, Dell and Red Hat – according to BCN.
Ericsson has announced the total acquisition of data centre management platform NodePrime in a bit to drive its software defined networking and infrastructure capabilities.
The Telstra/Pacnet acquisition story which broke towards the end of last year has now come to fruition, with the Australian telco today announcing the completed acquisition of the Cloud, managed services and data centre provider. As reported by Telecoms.com in December, the valuation of the deal came in at $697 million.
Telecoms.com caught up with AT&T’s Chief Marketing Officer of Business Solutions, Steve McGaw, at Mobile World Congress 2015 to discuss the US operator’s biggest focus areas, particularly on the enterprise side. The telco said it is on track with its plan to transform the large majority of its network to software-defined by 2020.
Australia’s former state-owned telco, Telstra, has confirmed discussions are underway over a potential acquisition of data centre and undersea cable operator Pacnet. At this stage, the cost of any possible transaction has not been announced.
Alcatel-Lucent’s software defined networking (SDN) specialist subsidiary, Nuage Networks, has announced that it will be providing its Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) to global hosting firm OVH. The deployment of VSP across data centres across Europe and North America will deliver “OpenStack as a Service” to OVH.
The business arm of American telco CenturyLink has announced the expansion of its managed services availability into the Chinese market. The announcement marks a potentially significant step for Western businesses moving into the worlds’ second-largest economy.
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