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Microsoft Azure’s first Arm-based virtual machines now generally available
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Arm-based virtual machines are now ready for prime time on the Azure cloud platform, following a preview that launched in April. The company explained that the Arm VMs, which are essentially software-based computers, will become generally available on Sept. 1 across 10 of its global Azure regions. They include five ...
Lower sales and weak guidance send HP’s stock down after-hours
Shares of the personal computer maker HP Inc. tumbled in after-hours trading today as the company reported lower-than-expected sales and offered weak guidance for the next three months. The company reported fiscal third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.04 per share, in the middle of the $1.03 to $1.08 range it had ...
HPE’s stock ticks up slightly as it matches Wall Street’s expectations
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. demonstrated the resiliency of its business as it posted fiscal third-quarter financial results that were in line with Wall Street’s expectations, pushing its stock slightly higher in after-hours trading. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 48 cents per share on revenue of $6.95 billion, up ...
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. ...