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PayPal expands its use of Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation
PayPal Holdings Inc. is betting on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its continued growth and will expand the use of that company’s services to accelerate its digital transformation plans. Google LLC said today it will provide PayPal with expanded cloud resources in order to help it process transactional data at massive scale. PayPal, which forged its ...
ChaosSearch adds SQL support to deliver multicloud business intelligence
ChaosSearch Inc. is making its log analytics data platform more useful, creating what it says is the industry’s first true multimodel, multicloud data lake that enables fast, cost-effective log analytics and business intelligence at large scale. The platform gets a significant update with the ability to perform Structured Query Language queries on Amazon Web Services ...
VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform brings load balancing to Tanzu service mesh
VMware Inc. is trying to help companies that struggle to maintain hybrid cloud application connectivity with the launch of a new platform that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh product with its NSX Advanced Load Balancer. VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform is designed to enable end-to-end application connectivity in any cloud environment, the company said today. ...
Chipmakers and big tech push for $50B funding for semiconductor R&D
Computer chip makers and some of their biggest customers joined forces today in an attempt to pressure the U.S. government to commit tens of billion dollars in funding toward semiconductor manufacturing and research. The Semiconductors in America Coalition’s members include international chipmakers such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
DevOps company CircleCI raises $100M round and buys Dutch startup Vamp
DevOps platform company Circle Internet Services Inc. announced today it has closed on a $100 million round of funding that takes its valuation to $1.7 billion. The news came as the company announced it has acquired a software release orchestration platform provider, called Vamp BV, for an undisclosed price. CircleCI said the $100 million Series F ...
Dell debuts high-end PowerScale F900 all-flash storage array
Dell Technologies Inc. said today it’s updating its Dell EMC PowerScale line of all-flash storage systems for enterprises in order to target some of the most demanding workloads around unstructured data. The updates include the all-new Dell EMC PowerScale F900, its highest-performing all-flash storage array yet, as well as performance improvements to the existing PowerScale ...
ServiceNow brings workflow automation to manufacturing and healthcare
Cloud automation company ServiceNow Inc. is going after more industries as it tries to find new avenues to grow its revenue streams. The company announced today at its Knowledge 2021 event that it’s expanding into the manufacturing and the healthcare and life sciences markets with new products and tools that it says will support companies’ ...
Mythic, maker of energy-efficient analog chips for AI, raises $70M in new funding
Pioneering artificial intelligence chip startup Mythic said today it has raised $70 million in a new round of funding that follows the launch of its first products last year. The Series C round was led by BlackRock and Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and brings Mythic’s total amount raised to $165.2 million since it was founded back ...
At Think conference, IBM puts AI and hybrid cloud to work
IBM Corp. is pushing the envelope on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence with a number of key announcements early Tuesday ahead of its Think 2021 event, chiefly aimed at accelerating its customer’s digital transformation strategies. One of the main highlights of today’s announcements is a new Auto SQL capability within IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data ...
Rackspace’s stock plunges despite record revenue and a growing customer base
Cloud computing services company Rackspace Technology Inc. saw its stock fell sharply in after-hours trading despite posting strong first-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported record revenue as it grew its client base and existing customers spent more. For the first quarter, Rackspace reported a profit before certain costs such as ...
