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Apple and Salesforce are teaming up on mobile app development
Apple Inc. is teaming up with customer relationship management software company Salesforce.com Inc. in order to improve the number and quality of mobile business applications available on its iPhone and iPad devices. The companies said in an announcement today that their partnership would focus on three areas, each pertaining to developers and Apple’s iOS operating system. ...
Alibaba Cloud teams up with NeuVector to boost Kubernetes container security
Kubernetes security startup NeuVector Inc.’s container firewall technology has been validated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Alibaba Cloud, which is now using the system to safeguard containerized workloads running on its public cloud infrastructure. NeuVector provides a security platform for companies that use Kubernetes to manage their container deployments. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator ...
Dell said to explore traditional IPO as investors resist VMware stock buyback plan
Dell Technologies Inc.’s messy road to becoming a publicly traded company again has taken yet another twist with the news it’s planning to interview several banks to underwrite a possible initial public offering, according to reports by Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The interviews mean Dell is postponing a roadshow scheduled for this week ...
Fujitsu showcases prototype high-speed big-data processing technology
Japan’s Fujitsu Laboratories is trying to address the demand for faster processing in big-data systems that handle analytics workloads. Today the Japanese company said it’s created a new technology that can help high-speed processing of big data in distributed storage systems, where information is stored across multiple drives. The new technology was implemented on the ...
Google’s Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep services now generally available
Google LLC today announced the graduation of two more cloud services from beta. As of today, Google Data Studio, a free business intelligence tool, and Cloud Dataprep, which is used to prepare data for analysis, are generally available. Data Studio has actually been around since May 2016. When it was launched in preview, Google said ...
Portworx adds data management capabilities to its container storage product
Container storage company Portworx Inc. today added a software development kit to its PX-Enterprise platform, giving enterprises a way to automate cloud-native storage and data management. PX-Enterprise is Portworx’s cloud-native storage product for Kubernetes, which is the most widely used tool for managing software containers. Developers are increasingly using software containers to build their applications inside ...
Alibaba and Intel team up to deliver better cloud, IoT and 5G services
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. might be busy developing its own computer chips for tasks such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, but those plans don’t seem to have put it off from relying on other chipmakers for other uses. In fact, Alibaba said today at its Yunqi Cloud Computing Conference 2018 in Hangzhou it’s actually ...
Alibaba outlines plans to build its own AI chips and quantum processors
China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has set up its own semiconductor manufacturing business and will soon begin building its own chips for artificial intelligence workloads, with further plans to build quantum processors down the road. The news was revealed Wednesday by Alibaba Chief Technology Officer Jeff Zhang during a press conference at the company’s Cloud Computing ...
Red Hat stock drops after miss on revenue targets and guidance
Updated: Red Hat Inc. endured a miserable after-hours trading session that saw its stock fall as much as 7 percent following a poor second quarter that saw it miss revenue targets and deliver guidance below forecasts. The company, which sells support for an array of open-source software and services for enterprises, reported earnings before certain ...
Google rolls out more cloud platform updates at Tokyo Next conference
Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo ’18 conference. The company made a raft of announcements early Thursday in Tokyo, including general availability of its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, new tools for developers, a vulnerability scanning feature for its Container ...