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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
Google LLC is advancing its hybrid cloud play with a new tool released today that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos is a …