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Microsoft steps up its bid for key Pentagon cloud computing contract
Microsoft Corp. is showing off its government cloud credentials as the deadline to tender a bid for a key Department of Defense cloud computing contract draws near. Whoever lands the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract will provide cloud computing infrastructure and other services to the U.S. military for the next 10 years. The highly ...
FogHorn Systems boosts machine learning at the network edge
FogHorn Systems Inc., a provider of edge intelligence software for industrial “internet of things” deployments, today updated its Lightning platform to enable more machine learning models to run at the network edge. The platform provides intelligent software to enable edge computing in the industrial sector. The company’s customers include businesses in the transportation, manufacturing and petroleum ...
NGINX’s latest release boosts application development automation
Web operations and application development platform provider NGINX Inc. today pushed out a major update to its NGINX Application Platform. The NGINX Application Platform is a toolkit for developers that was rolled out last year, combining the company’s flagship server NGINX Plus with its NGINX Controller and NGINX Unit products. The NGINX Plus server is used ...
Security firm Centrify appoints new CEO and spins out its identity-as-a-service business
Big changes are afoot at cybersecurity firm Centrify Inc. The company, which operates in the privileged access management and identity-as-a-service markets, today appointed a new chief executive officer to replace incumbent and founder Tom Kemp at the end of the year. Centrify is also spinning out its IDaaS business as a standalone company, called Idaptive. It ...
TidalScale gets $24M to fund its software-defined server push
Software-defined server upstart TidalScale Inc. is brimming with confidence today after securing a $24 million round of funding. The Series B round was led by South Korean semiconductor firm SK Hynix Inc. with participation from previous investors, including Bain Capital, Hummer Winblad, Infosys Ltd. and Sapphire Ventures. TidalScale has largely flown under the radar since ...
Google pulls out of the race to land Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract
Google LLC said today it no longer wants to compete for a massive cloud computing contract for the Department of Defense that could be worth as much as $10 billion for the winning bidder. The company, which is in a pitched battle to catch up to cloud leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure, ...
Microsoft joins Lot Network to step up the fight against patent trolls
Microsoft Corp. signed up Thursday as the newest member of the Lot Network in order to help the technology industry combat patent trolls that stifle innovation. The Lot Network, which has been around for quite some time already, counts more than 300 organizations among its members, including big names such as Google LLC, Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., ...
Thanks to flash memory demand, Samsung expects record third-quarter profit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has its flash memory chip business to thank for what looks to be another solid financial quarter, according to guidance issued early Friday in Korea. The South Korean company said it’s expecting to set a new record profit of about 17.5 trillion won ($15.8 billion) in the third quarter, up 20 percent from ...
D-Wave offers developers free access to its quantum computers
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. is opening up access to its systems with the launch of its new, free Leap Quantum Application Environment. Leap provides real-time access over the cloud to D-Wave’s quantum computers for the first time. The idea is to make quantum computers accessible to developers so they can begin building an ...
UiPath opens up its one-stop shop for robotic process automation tools
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. today launched a marketplace for its artificial intelligence tools and services in order to help enterprises on their path to business automation. RPA, as the discipline is known, is a subset of AI that uses software robots to observe workflows in common business applications and then deduce ways to automate ...