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Dell announces DPU-powered VxRail systems for multicloud and edge-based VMware workloads
Dell Technologies Inc. might not own VMware Inc. anymore, but the two companies are still as close as ever, teaming up to co-engineer a range of new data center infrastructure systems they’ve announced today at VMware Explore 2022. The new systems, announced alongside updates to Dell’s APEX infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio, are all about helping companies embrace ...
Nvidia and Dell to supercharge virtualization workloads with BlueField DPUs
Nvidia Corp. said today it’s partnering with Dell Technologies Inc. to help enterprises “supercharge” the performance of virtualized workloads powered by VMware Inc.’s vSphere 8. The chipmaker said it’s able to do this by pairing its specialized Nvidia BlueField data processing units, graphics processing units and AI Enterprise software with Dell’s high-end PowerEdge servers in ...
AMD’s latest data processing chips to support VMware vSphere 8
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it’s cozying up to the software virtualization giant VMware Inc., optimizing its AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card to run VMware vSphere 8. The AMD Pensando data processing units will be available in a range of new servers from partners including Dell Technologies Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Lenovo ...
Google launches bug hunt rewards program for major open-source software projects
Google LLC is launching another bug hunting program for coders, offering to pay cash rewards to anyone who can discover vulnerabilities in the open-source software projects it heads up. The Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program announced today is the latest addition to Google’s family of Vulnerability Reward Programs and is focused on rewarding researchers ...
Microsoft introduces fairer EU software licensing terms after antitrust complaints
Microsoft Corp. announced today that amended licensing deals and other contractual changes will make it easier for cloud service providers to compete with the company when they go into effect Oct. 1. The announcement comes in response to a three-year old complaint over Microsoft’s unfair licensing terms in the European Union. Writing on its EU ...
NetApp and VMware extend reach into the cloud to help reduce application complexity and costs
Data storage firm NetApp Inc. said today it’s expanding its long-standing partnership with the virtualization software giant VMware Inc. The companies announced a trio of new customer-driven initiatives that aim to help customers reduce the cost, risk and complexity of migrating enterprise workloads to multicloud architectures. They made the announcement as VMware’s VMware Explore conference ...
Elastic delivers strong revenue growth and beats expectations, but its stock is down
Elastic N.V., a provider of enterprise-grade search software, saw its shares fall in extended trading today despite posting fiscal first-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 15 cents per share, coming in ahead of Wall Street analysts’ consensus estimate of a 17-cent-per-share loss. ...
VMware posts solid earnings and revenue beat as it waits to be acquired by Broadcom
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. delivered solid second-quarter results that beat expectations on profit and revenue, in what is likely to be one of its last earnings reports as a public company. The company reported a net profit for the quarter of $347 million, down slightly from the $411 million profit it recorded in the ...
Dell’s stock drops as it warns of more cautious customer behavior and lowers guidance
Dell Technologies Inc. beat Wall Street’s estimates for its July quarter earnings today, but it warned that it’s seeing growing signs of customers becoming more cautious amid a challenging economic environment. As a result, the computer giant cut its full-year outlook, sending its stock down more than 5% in extended trading. The company reported second-quarter ...
South African retailer Pick n Pay migrates its entire IT infrastructure to Amazon’s cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that the South African retail giant Pick n Pay Group has migrated its entire on-premises information technology infrastructure to its public cloud computing platform. The company is holding it up as an example of the seamless transition to its cloud that’s enabled by its migration partner Lemongrass Consulting. Lemongrass ...
