The interface is evolving. What has long been dominated by screens of all shapes and sizes is now being encroached upon by the voice. And while many companies are building voice interfaces — Apple with Siri, Google with Assistant, and Microsoft with Cortana — none are quite as dominant as Amazon has been with Alexa.
At the AWS reinvent conference, Amazon will announce Alexa for… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/diczYfXVf-U/
Amazon FreeRTOS is a new operating system for microcontroller-based IoT devices
Amazon FreeRTOS is, as the name implies, essentially an extension of the FreeRTOS operating system that adds libraries for local and cloud connectivity. Over time, Amazon will also add support for over-the-air updates. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/oxbzSJ72zyo/
AWS Fargate lets you run containers without managing infrastructure
At the AWS re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, the company introduced AWS Fargate, a new service that lets you run containers without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. This is a fairly remarkable idea. You can launch your containers, let Kubernetes or other orchestration engine act as the manager and AWS will handle all of the underlying hardware requirements for you.… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/x50LEJ62XuE/
AWS announces two new EC2 instance types
At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a generalized EC2 instance designed for developers who are trying to get a feel for the kinds of resources their application might require. These new M5 EC2 instances offer a set of typical resource allocations with optimized compute, memory… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/lWz7hPqfbQI/
AWS launches new partner programs for networking and machine learning specialists
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division is launching a number of new programs for its partner ecosystem today. These include a new networking competency program for companies that focus on advanced networking features, as well as the new AWS Machine Learning Partner Solutions program that highlights partners that have demonstrated expertise in (can you guess it?) running machine… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/mYViUUl80_Q/
Time-Warner’s Turner opts for AWS as its preferred cloud provider
All of the hyper-scale cloud providers love to tout their new customer acquisitions: Google talking about Spotify; Microsoft signing up various Adobe services for Azure; or AWS working with the likes of GE. That’s a sign of how competitive this market is, despite AWS’s continuing market share leadership. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s cloud… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/l7RVnVOrEaA/
VMware expands AWS partnership with new migration and disaster recovery tools
Remember how VMware was supposed to be disrupted by AWS? Somewhere along the way it made a smart move. Instead of fighting the popular cloud platform, it decided to make it easier for IT to use its products on AWS. Today, at the opening of the AWS re:invent customer conference, it announced plans to expand that partnership with some new migration and disaster recovery services. As Mark… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/q_Tam0KlfO0/
Mapping company Here buys ATS to boost its over-the-air tech
Here, the mapping company that powers location services in 100 million cars, is today announcing an acquisition to vastly improve how it distributes and updates its data. The company is buying Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS), a Berlin-based developer of secure over-the-air (OTA) technology, the basis for how wireless devices — including not just cars but smartphones and other… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/2UEOlgZTykc/
Amazon debuts Elemental-based AWS Media Services for video app creation
Video is what consumers are paying attention to these days, and Amazon’s AWS is hoping to capitalise on that with one of its latest launches. Doubling down on its video services for media companies, app publishers — and actually any other organization that has considered launching a video service — Amazon today announced a new suite of five video processing tools as part of… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/KIU1gPgBIK8/
AWS launches Amazon Sumerian to build AR, VR and 3D apps quickly
We’d heard months ago that Amazon would be using its Re:Invent AWS event to roll out some a new service related to building in mixed reality — augmented reality and virtual reality. And on the eve of the conference kicking off, it’s done just that. Today the company announced Amazon Sumerian, a new platform for developers to build and host VR, AR and 3D apps quickly and… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/bQ3mj-cMsJA/
How bad decision making could undermine good innovation
Here’s a scary thought for decision makers inside large organizations grappling with digital transformation. You can actually be innovative and have mechanisms in place to react to disruptive forces, and still get steamrolled as layers of internal management turn your creative ideas into something unrecognizable. Kodak is a company that’s always held up as the poster child for… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Fcy0glWC1Jg/
AWS ramps up in AI with new consultancy services and Rekognition features
Ahead of Amazon’s big AWS division Re:invent conference next week, the company has announced two developments in the area of artificial intelligence. AWS is opening a machine learning lab, ML Solutions Lab, to pair Amazon machine learning experts with customers. And it’s releasing new features within Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s deep learning-based image recognition platform. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/iJ_XiG1Bya4/
Salesforce keeps rolling with another monster quarter, as it sets $20 billion revenue goal
Ho hum, Salesforce announced its quarterly earnings yesterday and the news was all good once again with revenue up 25 percent to $2.68 billion. The company has blown through its $10 billion yearly revenue goal and has boldly set one for $20 billion by FY2022. I wouldn’t put it passed them.
The company also announced some big executive moves. More on that later
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Salesforce appoints Bret Taylor as chief product officer
Salesforce has named Bret Taylor, the former chief technology officer at Facebook and founder of Quip, as president and chief product officer. Taylor first joined Salesforce in 2016, when Salesforce acquired word processing app Quip for $750 million. As chief product officer, Taylor will be tasked with leading Salesforce’s product vision, design, development and launches. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/RKMwHRXTesI/
Meg Whitman out as CEO of HPE early next year
Six years after taking the helm as head of HP, Meg Whitman will step down from her role as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in February 2018. Whitman’s spot will be filled by the company’s current president, Antonio Neri. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/p3k0V1jw7mw/
Capital One begins journey as a software vendor with the release of Critical Stack Beta
If every company is truly a software company, Capital One is out to the prove it. It was one of the early users of Critical Stack, a tool designed to help build security into the container orchestration process. In fact, it liked it so much it bought the company in 2016, and today it’s releasing Critical Stack in Beta. This is a critical step toward becoming a commercial product, giving… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/u_DvynReHzc/
HPE adds recommendations to AI tech from Nimble acquisition
When HPE acquired Nimble Storage in March for a cool billion dollars, it knew it was getting some nifty flash storage technology. But it also got Nimble’s InfoSight artificial intelligence capabilities that not only monitored the underlying storage arrays, but all of the adjacent datacenter technology. Today, the company announced it has enhanced that technology to provide… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Qln42Pyw2S0/
Google launches a paid enterprise edition of its Dialogflow chatbot builder
Google today announced the beta launch of its enterprise edition of Dialogflow, its tool for building chatbots and other conversational applications. In addition, Dialogflow (both in its free and enterprise version) is now getting built-in support for speech recognition, something that developers previously had to source through the Google Cloud Speech API or similar services. Unsurprisingly,… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/cyGe8fpVoBQ/
New Venzee tool brings data transformation and validation to your blockchain project
If the blockchain is going to be an immutable record, you need to start with clean data. The question is, how do you get clean data into a blockchain database to begin with. It’s kind of a quandary for use cases not starting with a green field, but Venzee, a startup that has been helping customers clean up their retail supply chain data to share with large vendors, thinks it has an… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/2cbpuc3x2fc/
Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models
Algorithmia started out as an online marketplace for — can you guess it? — algorithms. Many of these algorithms that developers offered on the service focused on machine learning (think face detection, sentiment analysis, etc.). Today, with the boom in ML/AI, that’s obviously a big draw and Algorithmia is now taking its next step in this direction with the launch of a new… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/8DQlFuI9KSs/ Source: https://techcrunch.com/
