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Why Intel and Micron called time on joint development of 3D XPoint memory chips
Computer chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. say they’re ending a joint endeavor that saw them collaborate on the design and manufacture of 3D XPoint solid-state processors. The companies issued identical statements explaining the divorce, saying they have “agreed to complete joint development for the second generation of 3D XPoint technology” in the first ...
Google touts Grab ‘n’ Go device loan program to stem IT downtime costs
Google LLC is introducing a new “Grab n Go” offering for businesses designed to help information technology department administrators support employees with easily deployed loaner devices. The program is all about minimizing the impact of downtime, an unavoidable issue for numerous large enterprises that costs them an average of $60 million a year, Google IT ...
Google has begun work on its first privately built trans-Atlantic subsea cable
Google LLC said today it’s beefing up its cloud infrastructure network with what it said will be the first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable built by a nontelecommunications company. The Dunant Cable will span the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia Beach in the U.S. to the west coast of France by the time it’s completed by 2020, ...
Dell EMC adds new pricing model and configuration options for Azure Stack
Dell EMC is updating its Azure Stack on-premises private cloud infrastructure offering. Azure Stack is basically Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud wrapped up in a box. It’s designed to be deployed by customers in their own data centers so they can create a fully compatible version of Azure, a strategy Microsoft refers to as the “One ...
Microsoft’s serverless Azure Service Fabric Mesh is now available for public testing
Following a successful period of private beta testing after its Build 2018 debut, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Service Fabric Mesh is being made available for more widespread public testing. Azure Service Fabric Mesh is basically a kind of serverless version of the more familiar Azure Service Fabric, which is one of the foundational technologies that powers ...
Periscope Data integrates with Amazon’s SageMaker to simplify machine learning
Data analytics company Periscope Data Inc. is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative to make it easier to create machine learning models for business decision-making. Under the initiative, Periscope Data is integrating its data analytics platform with Amazon SageMaker, which is a managed machine learning service that’s used to build and ...
Oracle’s cloud blockchain service is ready for prime time
Oracle Corp. is racing to latch onto one of the hottest trends in tech, announcing the general availability of its Blockchain Cloud Service that it announced last year. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it also has use cases beyond digital payments. The technology can be used to create tamper-proof contracts ...
Microsoft adds new data prep capabilities to Power BI
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday provided a sneak peak of some upcoming new features in its Power BI and Azure Cloud offerings, ahead of its Inspire partner conference that takes place in Las Vegas next week. With its analytics service Power BI, Microsoft is adding new features designed to streamline and expand data preparation, while also ...
Informatica collaborates with Google’s Apigee on API integration
Informatica LLC is teaming up with Google LLC’s Apigee product group to offer a new unified application programming interface and integration service. Informatica is a provider of enterprise-grade cloud data management products, while Apigee is an API platform available on Google’s cloud. It’s for enterprises to gain more visibility and control over the APIs that connect ...
Intel acquires eASIC to boost its programmable-chip business
Intel Corp. today said it’s buying a fabless chipmaker called eASIC Corp., which builds programmable computer chips that can be customized during the production process. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Intel said the price was “not material.” The deal will see about 120 of eASIC’s employees join Intel’s programmable solutions group, which ...
