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Microsoft looks to secure more cloud contracts with foreign governments
Microsoft Corp. is eyeing more cloud computing deals similar to the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract it won from the U.S. Department of Defense last year. The company is targeting foreign governments with similar initiatives as it looks to expand its “cloud-based computing and storage resources at all government security classification levels,” CNBC ...
Google adds near real-time wildfire data to Maps
Google LLC said today it has updated its Maps and Search tools to show wildfire boundaries so people can see exactly where they’re located in real time and work out how to avoid them. In addition, the Google search engine will also provide the latest news reports and helpful resources from local emergency services in its ...
Alibaba Cloud reports strong first-quarter sales
China’s Alibaba Group Ltd. said today that its cloud computing business saw strong growth in its fiscal first quarter amid rising demand from industries including the financial services and retail sectors. The growth comes at a time when Alibaba Cloud is branching out from its basic cloud compute and storage services to other areas such ...
Apple reportedly acquired augmented reality startup Camerai 18 months ago
Apple Inc. reportedly acquired an Israeli startup called Camerai around 18 months ago for “several tens of millions of dollars” and quickly folded it into its computer vision team, according to a report in Calcalist. Camerai’s technology has since become “a significant part of every Apple camera” and added some “useful augmented reality and video ...
FinOps Foundation launches to promote best cloud financial practices
The FinOps Foundation announced its formation today, saying it aims to advance best practices, education and standard for cloud financial management. Backed by the Linux Foundation, the FinOps Foundation said it’s focused on “codifying and promoting cloud financial management best practices and standards” in order to help enterprise technology consumers become better at cloud financial management. ...
Pentest-as-a-service provider Cobalt Labs raises $29M in new funding
Penetration-test-as-a-service company Cobalt Labs Inc. today expanded its war chest after landing $29 million in a funding round that brings its total amount raised to $37 million. Highland Europe led the round, and Cobalt said it will use the money from the Series B round to expand and develop its PtaaS model and make it available ...
BigID adds Hyperscan tool for large volumes of unstructured data
Data protection and privacy startup BigID Inc. said today it’s adding a new Hyperscan technology to its platform that enables customers to scan large volumes of unstructured file data hosted in their internal data centers or in the cloud at petabyte scale. The idea is to expedite processes such as classifying, cataloging and correlating sensitive ...
VMware’s Fusion and Workstation desktop hypervisors add support for Kubernetes apps
VMware Inc. today announced some forthcoming updates to its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisor products that will work with container-based applications running on Kubernetes. VMware Workstation is a hosted hypervisor that makes it possible to run multiple computer operating systems as virtual machines on a Linux or Windows personal computer, while VMware Fusion enables the ...
Google’s massively scalable Game Servers becomes generally available
Google LLC said today its managed game server hosting and scaling service Game Servers is now generally available for production workloads. Launched in beta in March, Game Servers is a service that helps to simplify the management of global, multicluster game server fleets. The service is based on an open-source game server hosting and scaling ...
Nvidia’s data center sales top gaming for the first time
Nvidia Corp. reported strong fiscal second-quarter results today thanks to record-setting revenue from its data center business and another strong showing in gaming. The company, which makes graphics processing units for computers, cloud servers and games consoles, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.18 per share on revenue of $3.87 billion. That ...