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Qualcomm ditches $44B NXP Semiconductor bid as Apple ditches its wireless chips
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. said today it’s giving up on its bid to acquire Netherlands-based chip maker NXP Semiconductors N.V. because of a delay in approval from Chinese regulators. The announcement came as Qualcomm posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. The company’s $38 billion bid to acquire NXP has dragged on for almost two years, hampered by regulators ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Security first: At Next, Google pitches a ring of steel around its cloud
A day after Google LLC talked about making its cloud services more accessible to greater numbers of people, today it’s focusing on keeping people away — the bad guys, that is. Security is one of the most important concerns for any company thinking of moving its applications and data to the cloud — the No. 1 ...
Qlik buys data lake management startup Podium Data
Swedish big data company QlikTech International AB is trying to make itself more useful with the acquisition of enterprise data management firm Podium Data Inc. for an undisclosed fee. Qlik said today that the Podium Data acquisition would help to accelerate its transformation from simply providing big data analytics to a multicloud strategy that will ...
Google’s new Dialogflow features enable smarter contact-center virtual agents
Google LLC said at its Cloud Next’18 conference today it’s updating its Dialogflow Enterprise service with new features for contact centers that can help to automate simple, common interactions. Dialogflow Enterprise is a cloud-based service based on technology that the search giant obtained through the acquisition of API.AI Inc. in 2016. The service, which was announced ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
‘A cloud for everyone’: Google debuts new management, AI-powered services
Showing no signs of letting up in its pursuit of public cloud leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., Google LLC today announced new services for hybrid cloud and on-premises computing environments aimed at making its cloud services more accessible to larger groups of users. That’s apparent on the first day of Google’s Cloud ...
Rainforest QA increases transparency of its human software testing service
Software testing company Rainforest QA Inc. today is adding a couple of new reporting capabilities to its platform to help developers better understand how their applications are performing during tests. Rainforest QA provides quality assurance services for DevOps teams through an army of more than 6,000 human software testers. The company uses “an algorithmic system to ...
HPE brings Infosight’s predictive analytics to its 3PAR all-flash storage arrays
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today added artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics and automation capabilities to its 3PAR StoreServ data storage systems lineup. HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage is a family of flash-optimized systems that can handle some of the most intensive and unpredictable modern data center workloads. It’s the company’s top-of-the-line storage system, designed for running software ...
Microsoft teases new apps and integrations for Dynamics 365
Microsoft Corp. today published some 238 pages of release notes for the October update to its Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications. The company said recently that it’s moving Dynamics 365 to a twice-yearly release schedule, once in April and again in October, which more or less matches the schedule for ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Google expands partner programs to build cloud momentum
Addressing a key need identified by some enterprises, Google LLC said Monday ahead of the formal opening of its Cloud Next conference that it’s working with partners such as Salesforce.com Inc., Box Inc. and MongoDB Inc. to make it easier for customers to run their software-as-a-service applications on its cloud. To do so, the company is announcing a range ...
Google and VMware release a plugin for provisioning hybrid clouds
Google LLC and VMware Inc. Thursday announced a preview release of a new plugin for VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator tool. In addition they announced support for Google Cloud Platform resources in VMware’s vRealize Automation suite, which will enable users to deploy and manage Google Compute Engine Virtual Machines to Google’s cloud. vRealize Orchestrator is a feature ...