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ARM’s fastest microcontroller yet will power next-gen IoT
ARM Holdings plc hopes to cement its dominance of the connected universe with a beefy new embedded processor aimed at paving the way for device makers to deliver more advanced features that were too complex for older microcontrollers. The new product fills an important hole in the semiconductor designer’s portfolio. With three billion units shipped ...
Heroku treats developers to DevOps-enabled dashboard, faster analytics
Users of Heroku’s popular cloud-based development platform logged into their accounts today to discover a revamped interface with an array of new capabilities that iron out many of the remaining kinks in building and deploying web apps on the service. The refresh represents one of the biggest updates to have come out of the Salesforce.com ...
Red Hat extends hybrid cloud campaign to public sector with gov’t consultancy platform
The federal government will spend more than $3 billion on cloud services this year, and cloud vendors have taken notice. Red Hat Inc. became the latest industry heavyweight to take aim at that opportunity on Tuesday with the introduction of a consultancy on-ramp aimed at paving the way for government agencies to pay as they ...
InfiniDB bows out of the database wars the open-source way
Consolidation is a natural part of any industry’s maturation, especially a segment as fiercely competitive as the database space, which has witnessed a massive influx of new players in recent years each vying for their own slice of the market. The resulting overlap in products and capabilities is starting to claim its first victims. The ...
Oncologist’s startup raises $3.7M to mobilize Big Data against cancer
As powerful analytics have proven to be in the business and technology worlds, nowhere is data more impactful than in the healthcare industry, where providing the right people with the right information at the right time can quite literally make the difference between life and death. That reality has created a tremendous market opportunity for ...
Cloud Foundry mastermind on where PaaS fits in hybrid cloud stacks | #OpenStackSV
The cloud way of doing things doesn’t come naturally for traditional enterprises. Processes must be reviewed, infrastructure replaced and workflows modernized before any tangible change can occur, making the transition a painful process all around that many CIOs choose to put off indefinitely even as the new generation of competitors sails past. But that doesn’t ...
Brocade follows up latest SDN buyout with programmable OpenDaylight controller
Another piece has fallen into place in Brocade Communications Systems Inc.’s software-defined networking plans with today’s introduction of a virtual controller that bundles the latest release of the OpenDaylight Project as a fully supported product ready for enterprise use. The vendor is hailing the new Vyatta Controller as a “keystone” of its emerging programmable networking ...
Microsoft’s cutbacks reach its Silicon Valley brainiac hub
No Microsoft Corp. worker is safe from the massive cutbacks that CEO Satya Nadella unleashed in July as part of his efforts to refocus the company on high-growth markets such as cloud computing and mobile services, the latest layoffs make clear. In a move that appears to reflect a new level of urgency to Nadella’s ...
Google ups video ante against Facebook with “real-time” YouTube analytics
Hot on the heels of Facebook Inc. opening up more metrics about videos uploaded to its site, Google Inc. is upping the ante with the introduction of reporting functionality for content creators on YouTube. The release marks the latest escalation in what is shaping up as a full-blown feature war between the world’s top video ...
What you missed in Cloud: that $8.3BN SAP deal and the latest from the startup scene
Acquisitions are such a frequent occurrence in the public cloud that it’s almost unusual for a week to go by without some established vendor picking up a smaller player to fill a hole in its portfolio that would be more costly to plug internally. Purchases that fall above the financial disclosure threshold are scarcer and ...