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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Microsoft adds new data prep capabilities to Power BI
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday provided a sneak peak of some upcoming new features in its Power BI and Azure Cloud offerings, ahead of its Inspire partner conference that takes place in Las Vegas next week. With its analytics service Power BI, Microsoft …
Informatica collaborates with Google’s Apigee on API integration
Informatica LLC is teaming up with Google LLC’s Apigee product group to offer a new unified application programming interface and integration service. Informatica is a provider of enterprise-grade cloud data management products, while Apigee is an API platform available on Google’s cloud. It’s …
Intel acquires eASIC to boost its programmable-chip business
Intel Corp. today said it’s buying a fabless chipmaker called eASIC Corp., which builds programmable computer chips that can be customized during the production process. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Intel said the price was “not material.” The deal …
StackRox hardens its Kubernetes threat detection platform
Container security company StackRox Inc. is updating its Kubernetes threat-detection platform with new capabilities that should help to prevent incidents such as the recent hack of Tesla Inc. StackRox, which recently landed $25 million in funding, offers a cloud-based platform that provides …
Most enterprises will re-evaluate their cloud strategies for the multicloud era
As large enterprises increasingly adopt multiple cloud computing platforms to host business critical software applications, almost three quarters of them are planning to re-evaluate their cloud strategies or implement an entirely new one. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Forrester …