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Samsung begins mass-producing next-gen chips built using extreme ultraviolet light
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it’s starting mass production of semiconductors built with its 7-nanometer Low Power Plus process after finally perfecting the technology. Samsung’s 7nm LPP process technology is significant because it’s the first in the world to use extreme ultraviolet lithography tools to inscribe circuits onto silicon boards. The new fabrication process ...
Despite beating earnings projections, Atlassian’s stock drops again
Enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc struggled to brush off investor concerns relating to its profitability, despite posting fiscal first-quarter financial results that beat market expectations. The company, which sells a range of collaboration, project management and productivity software for enterprises, reported income before certain costs such as stock compensation of $49.2 million, or 20 ...
Incorta lands another $15M to push its streamlined data analytics platform
Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. has won the backing of yet another high profile tech giant, announcing today that it’s expanding its latest funding round with another $15 million from M12, the venture capital arm of Microsoft Corp., and Telstra Ventures. The additional capital brings Incorta’s total Series B funding to $30 million. It follows a ...
With Spinnaker app delivery platform, Google makes it easier to use Kubernetes
Google LLC is adding a new “Kubernetes provider” to the open-source Spinnaker platform that’s used to deploy application code to multiple cloud platforms. Spinnaker, which was jointly developed by Google and Netflix Inc., is a platform that enables the continuous delivery of software updates to apps and services hosted on public cloud platforms. Continuous delivery ...
Intel to reorganize chip manufacturing group as another key executive leaves
Chipmaker Intel Corp. is reorganizing its manufacturing businesses following the departure of yet another key executive. The restructuring comes as Intel struggles to deliver on its promised 10-nanometer central processing units and continues its hunt to replace former Chief Executive Brian Krzanich, who left the company earlier in the year. News of the reshuffle was ...
Worldwide IT spending to hit $3.8 trillion in 2019, Gartner says
Worldwide spending on information technology is set to top $3.8 trillion in 2019, up 3.2 percent from the forecast of $3.7 trillion spend in 2018, research firm Gartner Inc. said in its latest Worldwide IT Spending Forecast. Global IT spending will rise despite the current climate of tariffs, trade wars and general currency volatility, Gartner ...
Cato Networks expands the self-healing capabilities of its SD-WAN
Cloud based networking startup Cato Networks Ltd. is making it easier for enterprises to ensure high availability for their apps and services by extending the “self-healing” capabilities of its software-defined wide area network. SD-WAN is a specific application of software-defined networking technology applied to WAN connections, which are used to connect enterprise networks – including ...
Kaloom intros a software-defined fabric for hyperscale data center networks
Startup Kaloom Inc. is trying to upend the software-defined data center market with the launch today of its “Software-Defined Fabric” product for hyperscale and multicloud computing infrastructure environments. Data center fabrics are not a new concept. Essentially they are a simplified system of switches and servers and the interconnections between them, which are represented as a “fabric.” ...
Google updates its Cloud Spanner and Cloud BigTable databases
Google LLC is updating two of its most popular managed cloud databases as part of a continuing effort to reduce the operational complexity of using the services. The updates, announced at the company’s Cloud Next conference in London Thursday, affect the Google Cloud Spanner and Google Cloud BigTable database services. Cloud Spanner is Google’s managed relational database ...
New Relic buys CoScale to expand its Kubernetes monitoring tools
Software analytics leader New Relic Inc. today said it has acquired a Belgian startup called CoScale NV, which sells software for monitoring software container environments with a specific focus on Kubernetes. New Relic sells a digital intelligence platform that lets developers, operations and tech teams measure and monitor the performance of their applications and infrastructure. It ...