Accenture buys Olikka in $3B cloud push

Zoom has announced plans to extend its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), selecting it as its preferred cloud provider. The announcement follows that Zoom would be shifting a portion of its cloud infrastructure to Oracle Cloud due to an unprecedented surge in new users following the announcement of lockdown restrictions earlier this year. Announced in late April, the deal saw Or

COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–Veritone, Inc., (Nasdaq: VERI), the creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence (AI), aiWARE™, today announced it now supports the NVIDIA® CUDA® platform, enabling organizations across the public and private sectors to run intensive AI and machine learning (ML) tasks on NVIDIA GPUs, whether on-premises or in the Microsoft Azu

Costa mesa-based artificial intelligence software developer Veritone announced this morning that it now supports the NVIDIA CUDA platform for its AI and machine learning (ML) software. According to Veritone, its support for NVIDIA’s CUDA GPU allows its customers tor un its AI and ML tasks both on-premise or in the Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) clouds. NVIDIA is a major developer of

This ambitious Oracle, Microsoft and AWS partner claims it is now a 140m-revenue business following its acquisition this May of fellow Dublin-based peer Singlepoint. Its UK arm - which is built on a series of acquisitions made since 2013 - pocketed net profits of 3.9m on revenues of 45.8m in calendar 2019. The Volpi Capital-backed outfit claims to be a leader in ERP, enterprise cloud, digital serv

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot-button topic in business IT for the last several years. Advancements in fields like deep learning and neural networks have made it easier than ever to commercialise AI without needing three years and a team of MIT lab scientists to train a machine learning model, and analysts have been busily predicting the dawn of a new AI-enabled age. We’ve extensively

As more and more companies, websites and net-based services rely on cloud computing, the risks have also increased dramatically. Yesterday, we saw what happens when such services go crashing down. Amazon is the dominant player in cloud computing, with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) having 45 percent market share, crushing the competition, most notably, Google and Microsoft. Yesterday, AWS experi

Two surveys among SAP UK customers indicate trouble ahead as skill shortage bites Den Howlett Tue, 11/24/2020 - 18:27 Summary: Two surveys provide insight into how an already difficult environment is made more challenging. (via SAP) Last

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Hyperscale Data Center Market in APAC- Industry Outlook and Forecast 2020-2025” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The APAC hyperscale data center market by revenue is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 4% during the period 2020-2025. The market is witnessing steady growth with continued investments from colocation and cloud service provid

Enhanced network security for AWS virtual private cloud – while Microsoft previews Azure Firewall Premium Updated AWS has announced Network Firewall, a new service drawing on the open-source Suricata project.…