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Amazon denies reports it’s planning to compete with Cisco in data center networking
Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy has reportedly denied a report last week that the company is planning to muscle in onto Cisco Systems Inc.’s territory by selling data center network switches to its customers. The denial came in a phone call to Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, following the report that AWS was ...
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Turning the corner? IBM delivers revenue growth for a third straight quarter
IBM Corp. is showing signs that it might finally be turning the corner after sustaining revenue growth for the third successive quarter. The technology giant, which has only recently recovered from 22 straight quarters of decline, saw its second-quarter revenue grow 4 percent from one year ago. It posted earnings after certain costs such as ...
AI-based digital twin startup SWIM.AI raises $10M in Series B round
SWIM Inc., also known as SWIM.AI, said today it has raised $10 million to push its digital-twin technology. The Series B round of funding was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital Plc., with a strategic investment from ARM Holdings. Existing investors Silver Creek Ventures and Harris Barton Asset Management also participated in the round. SWIM, which ...
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Why Intel and Micron called time on joint development of 3D XPoint memory chips
Computer chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. say they’re ending a joint endeavor that saw them collaborate on the design and manufacture of 3D XPoint solid-state processors. The companies issued identical statements explaining the divorce, saying they have “agreed to complete joint development for the second generation of 3D XPoint technology” in the first ...
Google touts Grab ‘n’ Go device loan program to stem IT downtime costs
Google LLC is introducing a new “Grab n Go” offering for businesses designed to help information technology department administrators support employees with easily deployed loaner devices. The program is all about minimizing the impact of downtime, an unavoidable issue for numerous large enterprises that costs them an average of $60 million a year, Google IT ...
Google has begun work on its first privately built trans-Atlantic subsea cable
Google LLC said today it’s beefing up its cloud infrastructure network with what it said will be the first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable built by a nontelecommunications company. The Dunant Cable will span the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia Beach in the U.S. to the west coast of France by the time it’s completed by 2020, ...
Dell EMC adds new pricing model and configuration options for Azure Stack
Dell EMC is updating its Azure Stack on-premises private cloud infrastructure offering. Azure Stack is basically Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud wrapped up in a box. It’s designed to be deployed by customers in their own data centers so they can create a fully compatible version of Azure, a strategy Microsoft refers to as the “One ...
Microsoft’s serverless Azure Service Fabric Mesh is now available for public testing
Following a successful period of private beta testing after its Build 2018 debut, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Service Fabric Mesh is being made available for more widespread public testing. Azure Service Fabric Mesh is basically a kind of serverless version of the more familiar Azure Service Fabric, which is one of the foundational technologies that powers ...
Periscope Data integrates with Amazon’s SageMaker to simplify machine learning
Data analytics company Periscope Data Inc. is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative to make it easier to create machine learning models for business decision-making. Under the initiative, Periscope Data is integrating its data analytics platform with Amazon SageMaker, which is a managed machine learning service that’s used to build and ...
Oracle’s cloud blockchain service is ready for prime time
Oracle Corp. is racing to latch onto one of the hottest trends in tech, announcing the general availability of its Blockchain Cloud Service that it announced last year. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it also has use cases beyond digital payments. The technology can be used to create tamper-proof contracts ...