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Attendees of SAP SE’s TechEd conference in Barcelona this week will have plenty to talk about between sessions. The company kicked off the event today by unveiling a landmark new release of Hana, the in-memory database underpinning its core products, that aims …
Google adds new testing, analytics features to its Firebase backend as a service
Building and testing mobile applications could soon become a much more streamlined experience for developers who rely on Google Inc.’s cloud-based Firebase toolkit. At an event in Berlin today, the search giant introduced a new iteration of the managed backend that promises …
NetApp to cut 6 percent of staff as storage competition grows
In a sign of cloud computing’s growing disruption of the technology industry, NetApp Inc. is already gearing up for another restructuring just two months after completing its last round of job cuts. The storage giant revealed plans to lay off 6 percent of …
CenturyLink to sell 57 data centers to consortium for $2.15B
The past week has seen telecommunications giant CenturyLink Inc. execute two of the most significant business moves in its recent history. On Monday, the company signed an agreement to acquire Level 3 Communications Inc. for $34 billion in a deal that is …
Microsoft beefs up its Power BI cloud business intelligence service
Analytics providers are constantly working to lower the learning curve of their offerings in a bid to reach more users. Microsoft Corp. joined the effort this week by releasing a new data visualization feature for Power BI, its cloud-based business intelligence service, …
Microsoft Flow takes on IFTTT task automation tool with enterprise features
Six months after announcing plans to take on IFTTT Inc.’s hugely popular task automation tool, Microsoft Corp. has officially launched its competing Flow service into general availability. The release brings a host of new features that are designed to streamline common work-related …
Chip giant Broadcom buys Brocade for $5.9 billion for data center presence
Increasing competition in the semiconductor market is leading the top players to branch out and target areas with new revenue opportunities. Although some such as Intel Corp. are venturing as far as the self-driving car industry in their quest for growth, Broadcom Ltd. …
IBM infuses hybrid cloud features into its storage systems
The hybrid cloud is emerging as a central priority in IBM Corp.’s storage strategy. The company today unveiled a new version of Spectrum Virtualize, the management stack powering most of its storage arrays, that introduces a native cloud replication feature. That means …
Cisco targets data-intensive workloads with new converged systems
Like its fellow hardware suppliers, Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to capitalize on the rapid growth of unstructured data and the resulting rise in enterprise storage requirements. The latest fruit of the company’s efforts is the UCS-S converged infrastructure family, which was unveiled …
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 …