Maria Deutscher, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Market consolidation: IT distributors Synnex and Tech Data announce $7.2B merger

By Maria Deutscher Mar 22, 2021

Synnex Corp. and Tech Data Corp., two top distributors of information technology products, today announced that they’ve inked a $7.2 billion agreement to merge into a single company. The combined firm is expected to…

Big Data

Optimizely acquires customer data platform startup Zaius

By Maria Deutscher Mar 22, 2021

Optimizely this morning divulged that it has acquired Zaius Inc., the startup behind an artificial intelligence-powered customer data platform of the same name. Optimizely, officially Episerver Inc., provides cloud services that help enterprises manage…

Policy

Report: Facebook could face UK antitrust probe within months

By Maria Deutscher Mar 19, 2021

Officials at the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority could launch an antitrust investigation into Facebook Inc. in the coming months, the Financial Times reported today. The probe will seek to determine whether the company…

Infra

Amid cloud boom, data center firm Stack Infrastructure raises $400M debt round

By Maria Deutscher Mar 19, 2021

Stack Infrastructure Inc., a company that leases data centers to hyperscale cloud providers and enterprises, has closed $400 million in additional securitized debt to continue growing its business. The round was announced today. It…

Emerging Tech

Facebook is developing a neural wristband for interacting with AR glasses

By Maria Deutscher Mar 18, 2021

Facebook Inc. is developing a smart wristband that it says could one day allow users to perform tasks such as placing e-commerce orders by making hand gestures in the air. The wristband, detailed today,…

Security

Secureframe lands $18M to help companies comply with cybersecurity standards

By Maria Deutscher Mar 18, 2021

San Francisco cybersecurity startup Secureframe Inc. today said that it has raised $18 million in funding after six months of rapid growth during which its revenues increased tenfold. Kleiner Perkins led the Series A…

Infra

Google says it will spend $7B+ on US data centers and offices in 2021

By Maria Deutscher Mar 18, 2021

Google LLC Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai revealed in a blog post today that the search giant will spend more than $7 billion on expanding its U.S. data center and office footprint this year.…

Cloud

Microsoft is making Azure more resilient with new availability zones

By Maria Deutscher Mar 17, 2021

Microsoft Corp. today said that it will deploy availability zones in all the regions where it maintains cloud data centers to provide Azure customers with increased protection against outages. The rollout, Microsoft Azure Vice…

Apps

Expanding healthcare focus, Amazon will offer Amazon Care to other companies

By Maria Deutscher Mar 17, 2021

Amazon.com Inc. will make its Amazon Care healthcare service available for other firms so they can offer it to their workers, the online retail giant announced today. Amazon first introduced the service 18 months…

Cloud

Google starts sharing more detailed data on its cloud’s carbon footprint

By Maria Deutscher Mar 17, 2021

Google LLC today began publicly sharing information about the carbon emissions of its cloud data centers, a step that the search giant hopes will help Google Cloud customers reduce their own environmental footprints. Google…

Maria Deutscher

Optimizely acquires customer data platform startup Zaius

Facebook is developing a neural wristband for interacting with AR glasses

Secureframe lands $18M to help companies comply with cybersecurity standards

Google says it will spend $7B+ on US data centers and offices in 2021

Expanding healthcare focus, Amazon will offer Amazon Care to other companies

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