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Report: Amazon still dominates cloud, but competition hot on its heels
Despite Amazon Web Services’ commanding lead, competition in public cloud computing is tightening, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. The study is the latest in a series of market updates that the analyst firm publishes every quarter after the industry’s top providers post their earnings. Synergy has unsurprisingly found that Amazon.com Inc. ...
NetApp launches new cloud services for managing data
On-premises storage suppliers are scrambling to address the growing amounts of data that their customers are moving to the cloud. The latest big-name player to join the fray is NetApp Inc., which today introduced two new software as a service offerings aimed at easing the management of remote workloads. The first addition is the Cloud Sync Service, ...
Redis, the cache that powers Twitter, gets a machine learning module
The growing number of services that run machine learning algorithms under the hood will now be able to tap the popular open-source database Redis’ capabilities much more easily than before. Typically used to cache applications’ most frequently accessed information, Redis has received a new extension today that brings integration with Spark ML. Organizations that employ ...
New MongoDB release can run across regions and perform graph analytics
After more than 20 million downloads and thousands of enterprise deals, MongoDB Inc. is launching a new release of its namesake documenet store that is aimed at large organizations with broad and complex datasets. Arguably the biggest enhancement in MongoDB 3.4 is support for graph processing, an addition that will enable users to analyze the relationships among ...
CenturyLink to acquire Level 3 for $34B to boost fiber optic network
The balance of power in the business Internet communications market is about to change in a big way. CenturyLink Inc., the third-largest carrier in the U.S., today entered into an agreement to acquire fiber network operator Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion. Excluding debt, the deal is worth about $25 billion in cash and ...
With new cloud hardware design, Microsoft aims to overhaul Open Compute Project
Since its launch five years ago, Facebook Inc.’s Open Compute Project has produced dozens of hardware designs that helped drive billions of dollars in infrastructure savings at the social network and other companies. But Microsoft Corp. still sees room for improvement. The software giant will attempt to nudge the initiative in a new direction this ...
IBM buys India’s Sanovi to bolster hybrid cloud capabilities
The growing popularity of hybrid cloud tools has not gone unnoticed by IBM Corp.’s top brass. The company today signed an agreement to buy Sanovi Technologies Pvt Ltd., a Bangalore-based firm that sells software for backing up on-premise workloads to and from the cloud. Its flagship Enterprise DR Management platform lets administrators manage recovery procedures through ...
Google unveils new Material Design toolkit for app designers
After taking the developer community by storm with its Go language and open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Google Inc. is setting its sights on another key segment of the technology world: application designers. As part of its push, the search giant has unveiled a set of homegrown user interface tools that aim to streamline the visual ...
CoreOS launches technical preview of OpenStack deployment tool
Setting up an OpenStack cluster can take weeks or even months of work, but CoreOS Inc. claims that the task can now be completed in under 15 minutes. This speedup is made possible by Stackanetes, an open-source deployment tool that the startup has developed in collaboration with Intel Corp. and launched into technical preview today. It ...
IBM and Slack team up to build smarter chatbots with Watson
Chatbots could become much more useful for knowledge workers if IBM Corp. and Slack Inc. have their way. Against the backdrop of its annual World of Watson summit in Las Vegas this week, Big Blue has struck a partnership with the communications startup to develop new artificial intelligence capabilities for Slack’s messaging platform. Their first ...