Chris Ehrlich

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — NVIDIA unveiled a platform for generating interactive artificial intelligence (AI) avatars. Omniverse Avatar connects the company’s technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines, and simulation technologies, according to the company last month. Avatars created in the platform are interactive characters with ray-traced 3D graphics that can see, […]

ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Technologies and AWS are collaborating on a product to help protect and isolate data from a ransomware attack.  With the launch of Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery for AWS, customers in the AWS Marketplace can purchase and deploy an air-gapped cyber vault from Dell, according to Dell Technologies this month. […]

WALLDORF, Germany — SAP and the pharmaceutical research company Boehringer Ingelheim created a smart app prototype to track, trace, and authenticate prescription medicines.  The smart app will enable law enforcement officials to potentially detect illicit, counterfeit, or unapproved Boehringer Ingelheim medicines being smuggled into the U.S. or sold illegally, according to SAP last month. The […]

NEW YORK and REDMOND, Wash. — The IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl and Microsoft are partnering to combine their capabilities to serve enterprise customers.  The global deal with Microsoft is Kyndryl’s first since recently becoming an independent public company and provides “incremental multi-billion dollar revenue opportunities for the two companies,” according to the partners last […]

SEATTLE — Meta is deepening its relationship with AWS as a “key” and “long-term” strategic cloud provider. Meta uses AWS’s infrastructure and capabilities to complement its existing on-premises infrastructure. Meta will now broaden its use of AWS compute, storage, databases, and security services to provide privacy, reliability, and scale in the cloud, according to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO and SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The customer experience (CX) company Genesys and Google Cloud are expanding their strategic partnership to help organizations “connect customer support and experiences.”  To help organizations embrace changing expectations from consumers, Genesys will bring the Genesys Multicloud CX to Google Cloud, enabling organizations to deploy a private edition of its […]

STAMFORD, Conn. — Smartphone sales across the globe dropped 6.8% in the third quarter of 2021, when compared to the same period last year. Component shortages disrupted production schedules, leading to lower inventory and delayed product availability, which eventually impacted sales to end-users, according to the market research firm Gartner last month. The current shortage […]

HOUSTON — The new chief technology officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)  is a former leader in VMware’s cloud services unit. HPE hired Fidelma Russo as CTO, according to the company in September. In the C-suite role, Russo will lead the innovation agenda and technology road map for HPE and manage the design and development […]

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Alluxio raised $50 million in Series C financing to help fund its open source data orchestration software for large-scale analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) workloads. The over-subscribed funding round was led by an unnamed global investment firm, along with participation from existing investors, including a16z, Seven Seas Partners, and Volcanics […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Databricks acquired the German low-code/no-code startup 8080 Labs to expand its lakehouse platform to citizen data scientists. 8080 Labs is the maker of bamboolib, a UI-based data science tool that enables data exploration and transformation in “a matter of clicks, not code,” according to Databricks last month. The terms of the deal […]