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Chipmaker AMD posts highest quarterly revenue since 2005
Capping a years-long return to form, computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today reported its highest quarterly revenue since 2005. It came after its first full quarter of seven-nanometer-process Epyc, Ryzen and Radeon processor sales, but the company’s shares fell slightly in after-hours trading after its guidance for the next quarter came up short. AMD ...
Google adds new device management and access controls to G Suite
Google LLC is shoring up security for G Suite and Cloud Identity customers with updates that should help them to keep a lid on both device management and access control. In a blog post today, Google product managers Vidya Nagarajan and Brad Meador explained that one of the best ways for businesses to keep their ...
Google creates dozens more .new web shortcuts for business users
Google LLC is creating a new shortcut for business users with the launch of several new .new web domains for G Suite enterprise customers. The launch of the .new domains today follows last year’s initial release of three specific shortcuts, namely docs.new, sheets.new and slides.new, which can be typed into the address bar of any ...
WANdisco enables more consistent analytics with LiveDeltaLake for Databricks
Data management company WANdisco Plc today launched a new LiveDeltaLake offering for customers that use Databricks Inc.’s Unified Data Analytics Platform, giving them a way to ensure they receive consistent business insights across different regions or cloud environments. WANdisco specializes in providing distributed computing services. It helps companies to create information technology environments that span multiple ...
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Analysis: Amazon’s cloud growth slows, but the future is bright
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s long-term growth potential has been called into question after the company shocked Wall Street by coming up short in its financial earnings report last week. AWS still leads the cloud computing market by some distance from its rivals, but its revenue growth slowed noticeably in its most recent quarter, and investors ...
HPE adds AI-powered self-management to SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is beefing up its hyperconverged infrastructure platform SimpliVity today with artificial intelligence. The new AI capabilities are intended to help create a more intelligent virtualized information technology environment that can manage the resources it uses by itself, resulting in more efficiency and better performance without any manual tuning or configuration. HPE SimpliVity ...
Google expands transparency report to cover requests for cloud and G Suite data
Google LLC said today it’s expanding the scope of its semiannual transparency report and will begin reporting the number of government requests it receives for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Enterprise customer data. “The publication of this information is an important milestone in our efforts to improve transparency and help address broader uncertainty about ...
Qualcomm to invest $200M in 5G wireless startups
Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. is ready to put its money where its mouth is on 5G technologies. The company is setting up a new $200 million investment fund to back early-stage startups developing fifth-generation wireless applications beyond smartphones, in what looks to be an effort to accelerate adoption of the new technology. The Qualcomm Ventures 5G ...
Despite chip supply problems, Intel posts record revenue, buoying shares
Intel Corp. is enjoying a bit of the limelight today after posting strong third-quarter earnings and guidance for the next three months that easily beat expectations. The chipmaker reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.42 per share on record quarterly revenue of $19.2 billion. That was well ahead of Wall Street’s expected ...
Micron debuts flash memory-optimized AI development platform
Computer chipmaker and storage company Micron Technology Inc. is pitching its hardware for artificial intelligence workloads after acquiring a startup called FWDNXT. The company announced the acquisition at its annual Micron Insight conference in San Francisco today, describing FWDNXT as a provider of AI hardware and software for deep learning, which is a subset of AI ...