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Microsoft boosts Azure’s big-data cred with flurry of database-related enhancements
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings leading the way. One of the most important new announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2022 is the creation of a new Partner Ecosystem for the Microsoft Intelligent ...
Dell launches operations software platform Project Frontier to scale up edge computing
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a new initiative called Project Frontier aimed at helping enterprises get a better grip on their edge computing deployments. Due to launch next year, Frontier is a software operations platform that’s intended to help enterprises securely manage and orchestrate edge applications and infrastructure at massive scale. Dell is hoping to solve the ...
Oracle revamps VirtualBox virtualization software with cloud integration and 3D app support
Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables users to create, manage and run multiple virtual machines. VMs, as they’re known, are computers whose hardware components are emulated by a host computer. With VirtualBox, ...
Google Cloud expands its confidential computing portfolio to shared workloads as it expands trusted cloud ecosystem
Cloud security is at the forefront of Google Cloud’s innovation at Cloud Next 2022 today, as the company announced a further push into the area of confidential computing while also expanding its “trusted cloud” ecosystem and launching a new initiative around digital sovereignty. First up is the expansion of Google Cloud’s confidential computing portfolio. Google is ...
Google touts open data cloud to unify information from every source
Google Cloud has ambitions to build what it says will be the most open, extensible and powerful data cloud of all, as part of its mission to ensure customers can make use of all of their data, from any source, no matter where it is or what format it’s in. Google announced this “data cloud” ...
Google beefs up cloud infrastructure with new VMs, mainframe modernization and software security offerings
Google Cloud today introduced multiple innovations across its portfolio of cloud services, including a new virtual machine and block storage offerings, mainframe modernization service and application security tools. They were announced alongside the opening of yet more cloud regions, a new open-source initiative aimed at machine learning, and more training courses for developers. Google debuted the ...
Google is making collaboration more immersive for remote workers
Google LLC is on a mission to make work collaboration more immersive, hoping that more effective communications will unlock greater innovation and better ideas. In pursuit of this goal, today it announced multiple updates to its suite of productivity tools during Google Cloud Next 2022. It’s no surprise that many of them involve Google Meet, ...
AMD’s stock drops as it warns of third-quarter revenue shortfall; Samsung profit slumps too
Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today warned that it’s likely to miss its third-quarter sales projections by more than $1 billion, stoking concerns over the sputtering market for semiconductors and sending its stock down. AMD’s stock fell more than 4% in the extended trading session, and the drop had a knock-on effect on rivals ...
Box boosts collaborative work with revamped Notes and new Canvas
Cloud-based content management company Box Inc. is updating its flagship Content Cloud with the launch of a new version of Box Notes, the beta availability of Box Canvas and a new release of Content Insights. The revamped platform was set to be announced at the virtual BoxWorks 2022, the company’s annual customer conference, where Box stressed ...
Google Cloud expands partnerships with tech consultancy HCLTech and app marketing platform AppLovin
Google LLC is looking to grow its cloud business by helping more enterprises to migrate to its computing infrastructure, and to do so it’s expanding its partnership with the Indian technology consulting firm HCL Technologies Ltd. HCLTech is a longstanding strategic partner of Google’s. It provides an array of technology consulting services to enterprises, including ...