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AWS seeks temporary block of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft
Amazon Web Services Inc. is requesting a court order to halt work temporarily on the U.S. Defense Department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, which was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year after a hotly contested bidding process. The move came to light in a court filing released Monday. AWS, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing ...
Amazon cloud CEO Andy Jassy shuffles ranks, and marketing head Ariel Kelman joins Oracle
Amazon Web Services Inc. is shuffling its executive ranks a bit as a former top marketing executive moves over to rival Oracle Corp. CNBC first reported today that Oracle has appointed Ariel Kelman (pictured), until recently the vice president of worldwide marketing at AWS, as chief marketing officer. Kelman is replacing Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, a former ...
Samsung acquires network services firm TeleWorld to advance 5G plans
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today said that it has acquired networking consultancy TeleWorld Solutions Inc. to boost its budding 5G business. Samsung is the world’s largest manufacturer of both consumer electronics and semiconductors, but those are not the only markets in which it operates. The company also has a well-established networking business that among other ...
Samsung’s new Galaxy XCover Pro is a rugged phone for frontline workers
While Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s flagship Galaxy S smartphone series follows a 12-month refresh cycle, the extended Galaxy family of devices is updated much more frequently. The latest update arrived on Sunday when the company debuted the Galaxy XCover Pro, a rugged phone aimed at the enterprise market. The device is designed for frontline workers ...
VCs bet $30B on enterprise startups in 2019, surpassing consumer tech funding
For the first time since at least 2015, venture capitalists wrote more checks to enterprise technology companies than their peers in the consumer market. That’s the main takeaway from year-end funding numbers PitchBook Data Inc. provided to Bloomberg for a report published this week. According to the market intelligence provider, enterprise startups raised a combined ...
IBM Research open-sources SysFlow to tackle cloud threats
IBM Corp.’s research division today announced the release of SysFlow, an open-source security toolkit for hunting breaches in cloud and container environments. SysFlow is designed to tackle a common problem in network protection. Modern security monitoring tools capture system activity with a high degree of granularity, often down to individual events such file changes. That’s ...
New lawsuit accuses Apple of infringing 10 patents with the Apple Watch
A new lawsuit against Apple Inc. charges that the company infringed 10 patents to develop the health monitoring features in the latest Apple Watch model. The case, first reported by Bloomberg Thursday afternoon, was filed in a federal courthouse in Santa Ana, California, by two medical technology companies. The first plaintiff, Masimo Corp., is a publicly ...
Microsoft enhances Teams to target frontline workers
Microsoft Corp. wants to grow adoption of Microsoft Teams among the more than 2 billion frontline workers worldwide who spend most of their time away from a desk. The company today debuted several new features for the messaging service that promise to ease communications among employees, as well as simplify information technology operations. The flagship addition ...
After its big bet on Periscope Data, Sisense raises $100M+ at a unicorn valuation
Business intelligence startup Sisense Inc. today said that its valuation has surpassed $1 billion thanks to a new $100 million-plus funding round led by Insight Partners. The investment follows a $80 million investment in late 2018. Sisense’s total outside funding now stands at more than $300 million when counting the capital raised by Periscope Data, a ...
Veeam to be acquired for $5B by investment firm Insight Partners
Veeam Software Inc., one of the industry’s biggest data protection providers, is being acquired by Insight Partners in a $5 billion deal announced today that’s poised to bring significant organizational changes to the company. Insight Partners said it expects to complete the transaction this quarter. The venture capital and private equity firm has been busy: On Monday ...