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Cisco Systems delivers strong earnings results despite revenue declines
Networking company Cisco Systems Inc. delivered a strong fiscal third-quarter performanc today, beating Wall Street’s expectations despite seeing its revenue decline from the same period one year ago. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 79 cents per share on revenue of $12 billion, down 8% from a year ago. Analysts ...
Amazon’s new Arm-based Graviton2 instances hit general availability
Amazon Web Services Inc. says its homegrown Arm-based Graviton2 instances are now ready for prime time. The public cloud services giant Monday announced general availability of its sixth-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud General Purpose instances. The instances are called M6g and they run on the company’s new Graviton2 processor, which is a purpose-built chip designed by ...
Microsoft donates more data center designs to the OCP
Microsoft Corp. is donating more of its data center designs to the Open Compute Project. The company also provided some updates on its existing data center projects, and other new initiatives it’s involved in, today on the first day of the OCP Global Summit. The OCP is an organization that works to share designs of ...
HPE announces new organizational structure for the post-pandemic era
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. is realigning itself under a new organizational structure that Chief Executive Antonio Neri says will better position the company in the post-pandemic era. The reshuffle came about as the company announced that Chief Technology Officer Mark Potter is retiring. Neri (pictured) explained in a blog post today that the reorganization is linked to the ...
Nutanix beefs up its disaster recovery capabilities
Data center company Nutanix Inc. today added more advanced disaster recovery capabilities to its hyperconverged infrastructure software and AHV hypervisor to help customers better protect their most important applications. The updates, which include a new advanced automation capability for recovering apps and their data, are meant to help customers ensure continuity of business operations should disaster ...
RPA firm UiPath debuts new hyperautomation platform
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. today announced a major update to its platform that it says will enable true “hyperautomation” for its enterprise customers. Having secured more than a billion dollars in venture capital funding, UiPath is one of the darlings of the booming RPA market. It’s an emerging subset of artificial intelligence that ...
How Amazon Web Services is enabling remote work during COVID-19
Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided an update on some of the ways in which its public cloud computing platform is being used by customers, including governments, educational institutions and businesses to implement more secure and reliable work-from-home solutions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The company has seen a big surge in demand for its cloud ...
Cloud monitoring analytics firm Datadog delivers strong earnings
Cloud-based monitoring analytics provider Datadog Inc. is riding high today after beating Wall Street’s targets in its first-quarter earnings. The company also delivered better-than-expected guidance, sending its stock up 3% in after-hours trading. That followed a nearly 8% rise in the regular session. The New York-based company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock ...
Trump administration urges Intel, TMSC to expand U.S. chip production
President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to convince major silicon chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. to set up new manufacturing operations in the United States to help reduce its reliance on Asia for some of its most critical technology. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported Sunday that officials ...
Eric Schmidt bows out of Google after 19 years
Former Google LLC Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly quit the company for good after stepping down from his role as a technical adviser in February, according to a report in CNET Saturday that cited an unnamed source. The departure of Schmidt (pictured) marks the end of an era for a ...