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Commvault sharpens cloud focus with latest platform release
Commvault Systems Inc. today introduced new features for its data protection platform that should put it in a better position to address the ongoing shift of enterprise workloads to the public cloud. Publicly-traded Commvault is an established player in the enterprise backup market that traces its roots back to 1988. After a period of slowing ...
Office 365 will become Microsoft 365 and gain new AI features across key apps
Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to rebrand Office 365 to Microsoft 365 on April 21, a name change that will be accompanied by the addition of a raft of new artificial intelligence features across the suite’s core applications. Microsoft is also adding a new Family Safety app as part of a drive to make the ...
As pandemic hits startups, electric scooter unicorn Bird cuts staff by 30%
Bird Rides Inc., an electric scooter startup that raised $250 million in October, today laid off 30% of its workforce to help weather the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “Due to the financial and operational impact of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we are saying goodbye to about 30% of our team,” Bird Chief Executive Travis ...
Google pledges $800M in coronavirus aid as Apple launches screening app
Google LLC and Apple Inc. today stepped up their involvement in the global fight against the coronavirus, with the search giant announcing a $800 million aid program and the iPhone maker a COVID-19 screening tool for the public. Google also said it’s partnering with an Illinois-based manufacturer to donate up to 3 million face masks. It’s giving ...
Report: Apple readying ‘several’ Arm-powered Mac desktops and laptops for 2021
Apple Inc. plans to introduce “several” new Mac models with Arm Holdings PLC silicon under the hood in 2021, MacRumors reported Thursday evening. The information comes by way of a research note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a long track record of accurately predicting future Apple products. Since at least early 2019, reports ...
Internal AMD source files surface online after data breach
Source files for some of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s graphics processing units recently surfaced online after a data breach at the chipmaker. AMD disclosed the incident in a brief statement issued Wednesday. “In December 2019, we were contacted by someone who claimed to have test files related to a subset of our current and future ...
Microsoft buys Affirmed Networks to push into the 5G networking market
Microsoft Corp. today made a significant move into the 5G networking market with the acquisition of Affirmed Networks Inc., a maker of infrastructure management software for wireless carriers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the price tag was likely substantial given that Affirmed Networks has raised about $155 million in funding and ...
Slack rockets past a billion usage minutes per day after adding 9,000 new customers
Slack Technologies Inc. Chief Executive officer Stewart Butterfield took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to share new data about the rapid user growth the company is seeing as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. Butterfield’s tweets came about a week after the Slack disclosed it had added paying 7,000 customers between Feb. 1 and March ...
Palo Alto Networks aims to secure DevOps workflows with new Prisma Cloud release
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today debuted a new release of Prisma Cloud, its cloud security platform, that adds features for blocking vulnerabilities during the application development and deployment process. Prisma Cloud combines several different technologies that Palo Alto Networks obtained through a recent startup acquisition spree. The company shelled out more than $1 billion on acquisitions in ...
Microsoft and Facebook team up with WHO to host coronavirus hackathon
Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and other tech companies have set up a hackathon to spur the development of new software for tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The #BuildForCOVID19 hackathon, announced Tuesday, is being launched in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Twitter Inc., Slack Technologies Inc. and Pinterest Inc. are among the firms taking part. The contest ...