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Facebook has built a new data center cooling system for hot, arid climates
Facebook Inc. today revealed a new data center cooling system designed for harsh climates that it claims can reduce its water usage by up to 90 percent. Like most data center operators, Facebook has traditionally built the majority of its facilities in cooler regions where the environmental conditions ensure its servers and systems can be ...
AWS and SAP partner on highly secure government cloud offering
SAP National Security Services Inc., a subsidiary of enterprise software giant SAP SE that offers services for the U.S. national security and critical infrastructure sectors, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a “highly secure” commercial cloud platform. The partnership fuses SAP’s HANA Cloud with the AWS GovCloud. The SAP HANA Cloud Platform ...
Data management firm Druva acquires AWS backup and disaster recovery specialist CloudRanger
Cloud data protection and management company Druva Inc. is acquiring a startup called CloudRanger that specializes in providing backup and disaster recovery services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva, which sells cloud-based services for backing up and managing corporate files, said the acquisition would help it to expand its own offerings. The company ...
Google integrates G Suite with rival services to boost collaboration
In a nod to the fact that most company employees rely on an increasingly large number of collaboration tools, Google Inc. is adding more integrations with G Suite to ensure a smoother and more productive experience. G Suite, Google’s collection of enterprise productivity tools, includes programs such as Google Docs, Sheets, Hangouts and Calendar. The suite ...
Rookout aims to make it easy to debug serverless code on AWS Lambda
Israeli startup Rookout Inc. is hoping to fill a niche in the market for debugging software, providing application code monitoring tools for Amazon Web Services’ serverless computing platform Amazon Lambda. Growing in popularity among software developers, serverless computing allows them to run their software in the cloud without worrying about creating or maintaining infrastructure such ...
Microsoft buys open-source icon GitHub for $7.5B to boost its cloud
In what could be a big boost for its cloud computing business, Microsoft Corp. Monday morning confirmed reports over the weekend that it’s acquiring the open-source software development platform GitHub. The purchase price is a stunning $7.5 billion, close to four times GitHub’s most recent valuation of $2 billion following a funding round in 2015. The ...
As global sales explode, ‘white box’ server makers reap the rewards
The global market for computer servers is expanding thanks to demand from large cloud service providers as well as a growing appetite for systems that can power modern workloads such as artificial intelligence and big data analytics. In its latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for Q1 2017, market researcher International Data Corp. said server makers ...
Subscription services firm Zuora jumps 7% on first earnings report since its IPO
Cloud-based subscription services startup Zuora Inc.’s shares shot up late today following its first quarterly earnings report since going public back in April. The company reported a net loss of 43 cents per share on revenue of $51.7 million, or a loss of 32 cents before certain costs such as stock compensation. Wall Street had ...
ConDati launches digital marketing analytics platform
Marketing insights startup conDati Inc. today launched a cloud-based analytics platform that’s designed to help marketers better understand the impact of their digital advertising campaigns. The platform is said to rely on machine learning that processes and analyzes siloed data from multiple marketing technology systems, unifying that data to provide more insights into the performance of ...
Intel announces new Optane DC persistent memory for advanced data center workloads
Intel Corp. announced a new kind of memory and storage technology Wednesday that it built purposely for data center operators. The technology, called Intel Optane DC persistent memory, is designed to support the massive storage requirements of today’s hyperscale data centers, the company said. To accomplish that goal, Intel’s new tech offers much higher storage ...
