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Adding to the roster of infrastructure options on its public cloud, Google Inc. today introduced sole-tenant nodes, new instances that offer dedicated hardware for sensitive workloads. The regular virtual machines on the company’s platform are multitenant, meaning they run on servers typically …
Report: Google could be hit with an up to $11B antitrust fine from the EU
The European Union may be gearing up to hit Google Inc. with a massive, multibillion-dollar fine as part of an antitrust probe focused on Android. The information comes courtesy of reports published in the Financial Times and Politico late Wednesday. The latter publication …
US will lift the crippling sanctions on China’s ZTE and fine it $1B
The U.S. is set to lift the crippling sanctions it has placed on ZTE Corp. as part of a newly struck deal that will include a $1 billion penalty against the Chinese electronics company and sweeping leadership changes. “At about 6 a.m. …
LinkedIn taps Microsoft’s Bing for new Commute Time feature targeting job seekers
LinkedIn is becoming increasingly integrated with the other platforms and services in parent company Microsoft Corp.’s portfolio. The latest example of this arrived this morning in the form of Commute Time, a new feature in the social network’s widely used job search tool. It …
PagerDuty’s incident response platform can now learn from operations teams
PagerDuty Inc. today unveiled new automation features for its incident response platform that can learn from the administrators who use them. The platform, which has been adopted by Google Inc., Comcast Corp. and other large companies, is designed to help customers better …
With new chips, AMD ratchets up competition with Intel and Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted two new chips, one for the enterprise and another targeting consumers, that will each one-up the competition in their respective markets. The company made the announcements at the Computex computing trade conference in Taipei. The event …
Microsoft has deployed an underwater data center off the Scottish coast
Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick. The 40-foot-long capsule (pictured) holds 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. According …
BlackRock leads $93M round into scale-out storage startup Qumulo
Qumulo Inc., a fast-growing storage startup that counts three of the world’s five largest companies as customers, today announced that it has nabbed a sizable $93 million funding round to keep expanding. The investment saw the participation of several high-profile backers. Wall …
On-demand scooter startups Lime and Bird reportedly raising $450M
The on-demand transportation market is slowly but surely expanding beyond traditional ride-hailing to other modes of travel. One of the most promising new frontiers is app-based scooter sharing, a new but already fiercely competitive segment. A number of separate reports from today …
Intel teases a mammoth 28-core chip and new display technology at Computex
Following Nvidia Corp.’s introduction of a new robotics chip at Computex yesterday, Intel Corp. this morning gave attendees of the closely watched computing event a look at several of its own upcoming products. The announcement was headlined by a yet-unnamed, single-socket central …