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Cloud data backup company Clumio raises $135M Series C round
Enterprise data backup provider Clumio Inc. is enjoying some strong momentum if its latest funding round is anything to go by. The company said today it has raised $135 million in a Series C round of funding, which is an enormous amount of cash for a company that only emerged from stealth mode in August. ...
Western Union plans big migration to Amazon’s cloud platform
Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed a major new customer in the financial services sector. The Western Union Company said today it has chosen Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company as its “preferred long-term strategic cloud provider” and will press ahead with plans to move “a significant portion” of its computing infrastructure to the public cloud ...
IBM ships out two new open-source tools for Kubernetes developers
Taking center stage at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon co-located events in San Diego today, IBM Corp. announced two new open-source tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as updates to two of its existing projects. The new tools include Kui, which is meant to ease the oftentimes “chunky experience” developers have to deal with when ...
Intel unveils graphics chip and software for high-performance computing and AI
Intel Corp. is turning its attention to the convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence with the launch late today of a new general-purpose graphics processing unit that’s optimized for both types of workloads. In addition, Intel announced its oneAPI initiative, which aims to provide a simpler programming model for developing HPC and AI applications that can run ...
Google flexes conversational AI muscle with updates to Contact Center AI and CallJoy
Google LLC’s Contact Center AI service hit general availability Thursday, giving business an easier way to provide more personalized customer care services to their clients. Announced in July, Contact Center AI is powered by Google’s Dialogflow conversational artificial intelligence engine, which helps automate interactions with customers in call enters. The service also offers a Virtual ...
Nvidia beats earnings forecast on solid growth in cloud and gaming
Nvidia Corp. beat expectations in its third quarter financial results today, but its stock fell slightly after it posted revenue guidance for the next quarter that came up short. The maker of chips for computer graphics and artificial intelligence reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.78 per share on revenue of $3.01 ...
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Amazon protests Pentagon’s cloud contract award, citing ‘unmistakable bias’
Amazon Web Services Inc. will protest the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award a key cloud computing contract to its rival Microsoft Corp., the company confirmed Thursday. AWS filed paperwork with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims regarding its legal protest last Friday. The Federal Times reported that AWS Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy held an ...
AWS Data Exchange launches as an easier way to subscribe to third-party data
Amazon Web Services Inc. launched a new service Wednesday called the AWS Data Exchange, giving customers an easy way to find, subscribe and use data from outside sources. Targeted at enterprises, academic institutions and scientific researchers, AWS Data Exchange is meant to remove some of the barriers they face when subscribing to third-party data. Those barriers including writing disparate ...
As big buyers hold back, NetApp beats profit margin target but misses on sales
Uncertainty continues to surround data storage company NetApp Inc., which reported mixed results in its second-quarter earnings call and issued revenue guidance for the next quarter that came up short of expectations. NetApp, which sells a mix of data storage hardware and software for hybrid cloud information technology environments, reported a profit before certain costs such as ...
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Cisco warns of revenue decline amid ongoing economic weakness
Updated: Black clouds are looming on the horizon for Cisco Systems Inc., which reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results today only to follow up with guidance that fell short of expectations. For its first quarter fiscal 2020, Cisco reported a profit before certain cost such as stock compensation of 84 cents per share on revenue of $13.2 ...