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Offering $300K to hack its cloud, Microsoft launches new Azure Security Lab
Microsoft Corp. announced today at the Black Hat USA Conference in Las Vegas the creation of a new Azure Security Lab that it believes will bolster the security of its public cloud service. The company said that Azure Security Lab is an isolated set of dedicated cloud hosts designed to be tested by security professionals ...
Lenovo and Intel team up on a new generation of supercomputers for AI
China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. today is teaming up with Intel Corp. to optimize its data center technologies for what it says is the convergence between high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. Lenovo, which has built several of the world’s top 500 supercomputers, believes its HPC infrastructure is the ideal platform to tackle the world’s greatest computational ...
Cisco and Microsoft integrate their Kubernetes container platforms
Cisco Systems Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to make it easier for enterprises to run containerized Kubernetes applications on-premises and in the Azure cloud. In a blog post today, Kip Compton, Cisco’s senior vice president of Cloud Platform and Solutions, said the companies are making it possible to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on ...
NetApp’s stock tanks 21% on revised outlook
Updated: Data storage company NetApp Inc. gave investors a fright today after saying its first-quarter and fiscal 2020 revenue will fall well short of what it had originally forecast. The company, which sells data storage systems and software for hybrid cloud information technology environments, said in its revised outlook that its first-quarter revenue is likely ...
Arista Networks beats earnings target but shares sag
Updated: Shares in cloud networking company Arista Networks Inc. fell slightly in after-hours trading despite solid second-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.44 per share on revenue of $608.3 million. That was well up from the $519.8 million revenue it reported in the ...
Software listing company Tackle.io adds support for Google and Microsoft clouds
Software sales automation company Tackle.io Inc. is adding support for major public cloud marketplaces, including the Google LLC’s Cloud Platform Marketplace and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Marketplace and AppSource. Tackle, which already supported Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Marketplace, sells a platform called Upstream that independent software vendors can use to list their software for sale ...
IBM accused of trying to look ‘cool’ by unfairly firing older workers
IBM Corp. has been accused of targeting older employees in several rounds of layoffs in an effort to change its image and come across as being “cool” and “trendy” like rival companies Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC. The accusation was made in a deposition by a former vice president in an ongoing age ...
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Qualcomm suffers as Huawei ban and 5G transition hurt sales
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. says it’s feeling the heat from the ongoing ruckus between the U.S. and China over trade, with the ban on U.S. firms doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. hurting sales. The company today reported third-quarter earnings that beat estimates, but revenue for the period came up short. Guidance for ...
Google beefs up security for physical hardware and personal accounts
Google LLC today announced another round of security updates for large enterprises. The first of the updates, announced at Google’s Cloud Next ’19 conference in Tokyo, relates to physical security measures Google introduced last year with the launch of its Titan security keys. The Titan security keys are a small device that ensures only people ...
Microsoft to retire Skype for Business in favor of Teams in 2021
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it will retire its Skype for Business Online meeting and collaboration service in July 2021 in favor of its newer Microsoft Teams product. The company had said in the past that its eventual plan was to ditch Skype for Business as its main tool for business video calls, but had never ...