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Intel debuts new edge computing chip with specialized cryptography tech
Intel Corp. this morning pulled back the curtains on the Xeon D-2100, a specialized new chip series built to perform computations outside a traditional data center. So-called edge computing enables companies to process data closer to the point of creation in the interest of improving response times. A factory operator, for example, might wish to ...
Top VCs bet $32M on Highfive’s flavor of download-free videoconferencing
Highfive Technologies Inc., a startup that competes in the crowded videoconferencing market with its own custom communications hardware, today announced the completion of a $32 million funding round. The lead investor was $8 billion technology consulting provider Dimension Data Holdings Plc. The company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based telecommunications giant NTT Group, which regularly backs funding rounds ...
Check Point’s new cloud security toolkit aims to thwart ‘Gen V’ threats
Recent years have seen a noticeable increase in large-scale cyberattacks that compromise a significant amount of sensitive data or cause substantial business disruption. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. collectively refers to such breaches as “Gen V” threats, the risk of which it’s hoping to mitigate with its latest offering. Unveiled today, CloudGuard is a set ...
Microsoft will foot the bill for enterprises that switch to OneDrive file storage
Microsoft Corp. is trying a new strategy to widen the adoption of OneDrive for Business in the enterprise. The technology giant today announced that companies switching to the file sharing service from competing products won’t be billed until they pay off their contract with the previous provider. Specifically, the promotion targets customers of Microsoft’s three ...
Eyeing expansion, data protection unicorn Rubrik inks deal to acquire Datos IO
Rubrik Inc., a provider of data protection technology that received a $1.3 billion valuation last year, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire fellow backup startup Datos IO Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, it’s reasonable to assume that the price tag was fairly ...
Amazon settles $250M tax dispute with France, but the fight may not be over
Amid an ongoing antitrust dispute in France, Amazon.com Inc. today settled a separate lawsuit filed by local authorities over unpaid taxes. The case dates back to 2012, when the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance called on the retail giant to pay €200 million ($250 million) in back taxes on revenue generated from 2006 ...
Apple and Cisco team up with Allianz to provide antihacker insurance
Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. joined forces back in 2015 to help companies that use the networking giant’s gear to improve management of traffic from employees’ iPhones and iPads. The tech giants have now expanded the scope of their collaboration to another area: insurance. Today, Apple and Cisco launched a new “cyber risk management ...
Former Intel President Renee James launches a competing chip startup
Ampere Computing Inc., a semiconductor startup led by former Intel Corp. President Renee James, launched out of stealth mode this morning to challenge the chip giant’s long-held dominance of the data center market. Ampere is developing processors based on designs from ARM Holdings PLC. The latter company’s blueprints are the basis for the vast majority of ...
Google is investing $310M in a new Belgian data center with an on-site solar farm
Google LLC’s global facilities have been running exclusively on renewable energy since late last year thanks to a series of major energy purchases that the company started back in 2010. The search giant is determined to maintain this newly earned status. On Thursday, Google announced plans to build a data center in Belgium that will have ...
Microsoft launches the Cortana Intelligence Institute to advance AI
Microsoft Corp. is forming a new cross-continent research initiative to advance artificial intelligence technology. The company on Thursday announced the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute, a collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology focused on broadening the capabilities of its virtual assistant. RMIT, as the university is most commonly known, is Australia’s largest ...