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Amazon rivals, led by Oracle, call for multiple bidders to land lucrative Pentagon cloud contract
The scramble among cloud computing giants to land an extremely lucrative contract from the U.S. Defense Department is becoming more complicated and controversial by the day. The Pentagon on Thursday said it would soon release a revised list of requirements for the decade-long contract, which could be worth up to $10 billion for the company ...
Public cloud services market will hit $302B by 2021, Gartner says
The global market for public cloud services will be worth $302 billion by 2021, when just 10 companies will command almost three-quarters of the market’s sales, up from 50 percent in 2016. That’s according to Gartner Inc.’s updated public cloud revenue forecast, which it released today. Gartner breaks down the cloud market into five distinct segments and ...
Couchbase adds new features to help developers tame mobile data at the edge
Nonrelational database company Couchbase Inc. is updating its mobile data management platform with new capabilities that should make it easier for developers to build portable versions of business-critical applications. The company said Couchbase Mobile 2.0 is a “full-stack data platform for securely managing and syncing data from edge devices back to the cloud.” More specifically, Couchbase Mobile ...
NeuVector debuts incident response system for Kubernetes software deployments
With software containers growing increasingly popular in enterprise information technology deployments, securing them has taken on a much higher priority. With that in mind, Kubernetes security specialist NeuVector Inc. today is updating its container firewall with new capabilities, including an incident response system and other process and file system protections. NeuVector offers a security platform for ...
Programmable power: Intel plugs its FPGA accelerator chips into Dell’s and Fujitsu’s servers
Intel Corp. is hoping to entice enterprises to tap into the benefits of its field-programmable gate arrays in order to accelerate their data center workloads. The chip maker said Wednesday that it’s teaming up with server makers Dell EMC, a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., and Fujitsu Co. Ltd. to put Arria 10 GX Programmable ...
Report: Google is trying to buy Nokia’s airplane broadband system
Google LLC is reportedly in advanced talks with Nokia Oyj to buy its airplane broadband business, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Using Nokia’s technology, Google might be able to offer a faster alternative service to current in-flight Wi-Fi, Bloomberg said. Nokia’s airplane Wi-Fi technology is based on an LTE A2G cellular-based system that has been under development for some ...
Oracle adds new AI services to its Customer Experience Cloud Suite
Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it has enhanced its Customer Experience Cloud Suite with the addition of three new products aimed at helping customers step up their digital transformation efforts. The new products include an analytics application called Infinity, a segmentation tool for marketers called CX Audience and a new service aimed at customer retention called ...
OCI announces new standard for distributing software container images
The Open Container Initiative has just launched a new project as part of its mission to create open industry standards around software container formats and rules. The group said Monday it wants to standardize container image distribution based on Docker Inc.’s Registry v2 protocol in order to further interoperability within the container ecosystem. Software containers are ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release targets hybrid clouds
Open-source software company Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its game around Microsoft Windows integration, hybrid cloud environments and software containers in the latest version of its enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat Tuesday announced its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release, touting improvements it says enables the platform to become “a consistent foundation for ...
Marc Benioff says Salesforce will introduce a blockchain product later this year
One of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, Salesforce.com Inc., has hinted at its plans to introduce a “blockchain and cryptocurrency solution” later this year. The comments came from Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff (pictured) himself during an interview at the TrailheaDX conference last week alongside company co-founder Parker Harris. In the interview, Benioff ...