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Object storage company Cloudian closes on $94M funding round
Cloudian Inc., a maker of data center storage appliances, today said it has raised a hefty $94 million in a Series E round of equity funding that brings its total amount raised to $173 million. Cloudian said it’s the largest fund-raising round ever by an object storage company. Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Facebook hits its green energy goal for data centers a year ahead of schedule
Embattled social media giant Facebook Inc. finally has some positive news to report. The company said Tuesday it has met its goal of using renewable energy sources to supply at least 50 percent of its data center energy a year ahead of schedule. The company, which has for months been beset with scandals centered on privacy ...
Intel announces eighth-generation chips for lightweight laptops
Intel Corp. today rolled out a new line of central processing units, including its eighth-generation U-series “Whiskey Lake” and its Y-Series “Amber Lake” chips, which are designed to power lightweight and thin personal computers such as two-in-one devices. The U-series comes in three varieties – the Core i7-89565U, Core i5-8265U and Core i3-8145U — while ...
Box stock drops as it provides weak revenue guidance
Updated: Cloud storage company Box Inc. beat Wall Street’s expectations in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report, but its stock fell almost 7 percent in after-hours trading on a combination of weak guidance and concerns over its future profitability. Box said it made a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 5 cents per ...
Google’s Cloud Text-to-Speech service exits beta
Google LLC continues to make progress on the machine learning front, announcing today the general availability of its Cloud Text-to-Speech service as well as improvements to its Cloud Speech-to-Text service, which remains in beta. Google’s Text-to-Speech service is intended to help companies develop better conversational interfaces for the services they supply. With the service, Google ...
Cloud cost optimization firm Spotinst raises $35M in new funding round
Israeli cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spotinst says it has “hyperexpansion” on its mind after raising a new funding round worth $35 million. The Series B round, led by Highland with participation from previous investors Leaders Fund, Intel Capital and Vertex Ventures, brings the company’s total funding to $52 million. That’s a considerable sum of money ...
AMD’s new Radeon Pro card offers high-end graphics visualization for cloud data centers
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is targeting mobile workers with the launch Monday of a new Radeon Pro graphics card for data centers that’s designed to deliver powerful visualization in the cloud for remote workloads. The Radeon Pro V340 graphics card for data center visualization workloads is aimed at jobs such as computer-aided design, desktop-as-a-service and graphics ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
VMware buys CloudHealth to bulk out its nascent cloud services
While VMware Inc. was busy pushing its multicloud credentials with the announcement of a “digital foundation” of software and storage virtualization platforms, the company also made a notable acquisition designed to further that strategy. The company on Monday said it’s acquiring CloudHealth Technologies Inc., which sells a “cloud operations platform” to help analyze the cost, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
VMware’s new cloud services aim to automate operations across hybrid clouds
Updated: Building on plans to be announced today to build a “digital foundation” for companies using multiple cloud computing systems, VMware Inc. today unveiled a wide swath of new cloud services designed to help enterprises manage those operations. VMware Cloud Services is a set of services that are aimed at homogenizing the cloud by providing a ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
At VMworld, VMware pushes a ‘digital foundation’ for hybrid cloud computing
Updated: Hoping to extend its hard-won leadership in corporate data centers into the cloud computing era, VMware Inc. is using its VMworld 2018 conference that opens today to showcase its growing cloud credentials — especially in managing operations on multiple clouds. During a keynote this morning with VMware Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger (pictured) and other executives ...