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Intel to boost its CPUs with Optane memory to fend off AMD and Nvidia
Intel Corp. on Wednesday laid out its plans to stave off the threat to its business from rival chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. The company said it’s planning to combine current generation of microchips with its new Optane memory technology in order to give them superior capabilities that can speed up artificial ...
Data center operators battle to contain increasing frequency of outages
As the frequency and severity of data center outages increases, enterprises are searching for new ways to boost their resiliency, according to a new industry survey by the Uptime Institute. The survey found that data center operators are struggling to get to grips with increasingly complex technology and more demanding workloads, as well as a ...
Western Digital intros OpenFlex architecture for deploying composable infrastructure
Data storage equipment maker Western Digital Corp. Tuesday introduced a new storage architecture called OpenFlex, together with a bunch of hardware devices that support it. OpenFlex is designed to give data center operators the ability to scale compute, storage and network resources independently using software composable infrastructure. Network World defines software composable infrastructure as a kind of ...
New Relic beats earnings targets but not by enough to please investors
Software analytics company New Relic Inc. is claiming a good start to its fiscal 2019 after posting first-quarter earnings that came in above analysts’ estimates. The San Francisco-based firm today reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 15 cents per share on revenue of $108.2 million, up 35 percent from a year ago. ...
Hortonworks’ stock jumps as it easily beats earnings targets
Big data company Hortonworks Inc. has pulled yet another successful quarter out of the bag with earnings that easily surpassed analysts’ estimates, sending its share price soaring in after-hours trading. Hortonworks, which distributes an enterprise-grade version of the Apache Hadoop software platform as well as other open source software, today reported a second-quarter loss before certain ...
Evolute debuts software container migration platform
Software container company Evolute Inc. is the latest in a long line of startups aiming to tackle the challenge of migrating legacy applications to more modern information technology infrastructure. The company is launching a new software platform today that it said can quickly and reliably migrate software applications across computing environments up to 10 times faster ...
Apple is planning a new strategy for India based on better deals and improved apps
Apple Inc.’s failure to win over the Indian audience with its iPhones has been well-documented over the years. The company has struggled to win any significant market share in the world’s second-largest market for smartphones, and it recently lost three of its highest-ranking executives in the country. However, a report in Bloomberg Monday said Apple ...
Facebook open-sources Fizz, a new method of securing traffic across the web
Facebook Inc. said today it’s open-sourcing a new library it created for the Transport Layer Security protocol, which is designed to help developers protect their data as it traverses the internet. The social media giant said it’s making the code for Fizz, a TLS 1.3 library written in C++14, available on GitHub for anyone to use. TLS is ...
Twilio’s stock jumps 19% as it easily beats earnings estimates
Twilio Inc. is rocking it with another positive earnings report today that brought it to the verge of profitability, sending its stock soaring in after-hours trading. The company posted second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 3 cents per share on revenue of $147.8 million, up 54 percent from the same period ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Google explains how its Shielded VMs enable better cloud security
Google LLC is sharing more information about a new security feature for its cloud platform it announced during last month’s Cloud Next cloud conference. Google provided scant details when it launched “Shielded VMs” in beta test, other than to say it was a suite of security tools and techniques to ensure that when virtual machines ...