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Aviatrix debuts CoPilot to provide deeper visibility into multicloud networks
Aviatrix Systems Inc. today pulled back the curtains on CoPilot, a monitoring service aimed at making it easier for administrators to find issues in large corporate networks spanning multiple public clouds. A company that has workloads scattered across multiple providers’ data centers needs to keep tabs on each deployment individually. Normally, that requires using several ...
In new lawsuit, Commvault accuses Cohesity and Rubrik of violating 7 patents
Three of the most prominent players in the data protection market are headed to court. Commvault Systems Inc. today said that it has sued startup rivals Cohesity Inc. and Rubrik Inc. for collectively infringing upon seven of its patents. The lawsuit, filed in a Delaware federal court, seeks an injunction against the companies as well as monetary ...
Uber moves into package delivery with new Direct and Connect courier services
Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday evening started rolling out two new courier services that will enable businesses to deliver online orders and consumers to send packages to one another via the company’s app. Usage of Uber’s core ride-hailing offerings has plummeted in recent weeks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Moving into the package delivery market, ...
Facebook launches COVID-19 symptom map to help authorities track virus spread
Facebook Inc. today launched a COVID-19 symptom map as part of a project with Carnegie Mellon University aimed at giving authorities the ability to forecast coronavirus hospitalization numbers weeks in advance. Before health officials can start accurately projecting future hospital admissions, they need a clear picture of how many people may already have COVID-19. Facebook is looking to fill in ...
In global expansion, Alibaba will invest $28B in cloud infrastructure over the next 3 years
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced plans to invest 200 billion yuan, or about $28 billion, over the next three years to bolster its cloud infrastructure, an investment equivalent to more than half of its revenue in the fiscal year ended March 2019. Alibaba is the largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider in the Asia Pacific region, with a market ...
Report: Rackspace has secretly filed to go public with eye to $10B+ valuation
Rackspace Holding Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that could value it at more $10 billion including debt, according to sources cited by Reuters on Thursday. Rackspace started out as a hosting provider in 1998 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange a decade later. In 2016, the company once again ...
After probe, UK provisionally approves Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog today granted Amazon.com Inc. provisional approval to buy a stake in Roofoods Ltd., better known as Deliveroo Inc., a London-based food delivery startup valued at more than $2 billion as of 2017. Deliveroo announced last March that it had raised a $575 million funding round led by Amazon with participation from ...
Qualcomm intros ultra-low-power modem chip for IoT devices
Qualcomm Inc. will ship a new modem chip for so-called internet of things devices this year that measures smaller than a dime and is touted as the most power-efficient product in its category. The chip, descriptively named the Qualcomm 212 LTE IoT Modem, was announced on Thursday. It’s designed to enable internet access on connected ...
Apple reportedly working on modular wireless headphones with Siri integration
A new report claims that Apple Inc. is developing a pair of wireless headphones with a modular over-the-ear design and integration with its Siri voice assistant. Bloomberg, a frequent source of early information about upcoming Apple products, today cited sources as saying that the headphones have been in the works since 2018. The project is ...
AWS doubles the performance of its Snowball Edge device and adds new software
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new version of Snowball Edge, its system for running edge computing workloads and migrating data to the cloud, that features more powerful silicon as well as additional management tools. AWS launched the first Snowball device in 2015 as a way for enterprises to move large amounts of records ...