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Less than two months after Amazon.com Inc. chief technology officer Werner Vogels revealed plans to bring its public cloud into Canada, the expansion has become official. The company on Wednesday launched a new data center cluster in Montreal that consists of two …
Nantero raises $21M to harness carbon nanotubes for data storage
While Intel Corp. works to commercialize its bleeding-edge XPoint memory technology, an up-and-coming contender called Nantero Inc. is rapidly gaining ground. The nanotechnology startup marked another milestone in its efforts today after securing a $21 million funding round led by Globespan Capital Partners. …
Google opens up tool to visualize complex big data used by AIs
Modern data visualization tools such as Tableau and QlikView make it possible to create all kinds of sophisticated business graphs, but certain information is simply too complex to fit on a regular two-dimensional dashboard. In an effort to fill the gap, Google …
Sauce Labs makes its first acquisition following $70M funding round
Development automation provider Sauce Labs Inc. is already starting to make use of the $70 million that investors put into its war chest last month. The startup, which claims to operate the industry’s most popular software testing platform, has acquired a low-key …
Talla launches a workflow automation chatbot for HR teams
Chatbots are finding use in more and more parts of the enterprise. Talla Inc., a startup backed by Avalon Ventures and Pillar, wants to add human relations departments to the list with a new personnel management agent that it’s rolling out today. The …
Watch out, Intel: Qualcomm’s newest chip breaks the 10-nanometer barrier
More and more semiconductor makers are challenging Intel Corp. in the server market. Qualcomm Technologies Inc., which is best known for its mobile chips, moved to the head of the pack today after introducing a new 48-core data center processor. The chip ups the …
Kenna raises $15M to help companies find hidden security risks
Fixing every security vulnerability in a large enterprise with thousands or tens of thousands of endpoints is practically impossible. San Francisco’s Kenna Security Inc. aims to help address that problem. The startup, which works with dozens of Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo …
IBM launches new cloud service to speed app development
Like every other part of a software project, the various tools that companies use to build and maintain their applications can often take a lot of effort to manage. IBM Corp. hopes to ease the task with a new cloud service called Bluemix …
Verizon sells 29 data centers to Equinix for $3.6B
In the latest deal the roll up corporate data centers into independent providers, Equinix Inc. said today it’s buying 29 of Verizon Communications Inc.’s data centers for $3.6 billion. The deal comes a month after CenturyLink Inc. sold 57 data centers to …
HPE’s data navigation engine can now answer questions like a chatbot
The swift rise of chatbots in the enterprise has not gone unnoticed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., which today is rolling out a new release of IDOL, its data navigation engine, that adds a natural-language query mechanism for easing searches. The feature enables …