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Cloud computing market revenues grew by 24% to $180 billion in 2017
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the global cloud computing market grew by 24 percent over the last year, valuing it at more than $180 billion. Synergy’s figure is based on the revenues it calculated from six segments of cloud services in tracks: infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service, hosted private cloud, enterprise software-as-a-service, unified communications-as-a-service ...
CES 2018
Intel unveils new chips with AMD technology to take on Nvidia in high-end laptops
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have made good on a promise they made last November that they would combine their technologies to build a high-powered computer processor chip to challenge those offered by Nvidia Corp. The longtime rivals unveiled a new series of laptop chips Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that ...
Verizon acquires machine learning-based threat detection startup Niddel
Verizon Communications Inc. is planning to beef up the security of its enterprise network products following its acquisition Friday of startup Niddel Corp., which offers a threat-hunting platform based on machine learning technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Verizon said it plans to integrate Niddel’s technology with its own products and services ...
Microsoft joins biotech firm to create an AI-based blood test for diagnosing disease
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with a biotech firm called Adaptive Biotechnologies in an effort to develop an artificial intelligence-based blood test that could be trained to identify “hundreds” of diseases in humans before symptoms appear. Adaptive Biotechnologies is said to be a major player in the genetic sequencing of the T- and B-cell receptors ...
Citrix files lawsuit accusing Avi Networks of infringing on its patents
Networking equipment provider Citrix Systems Inc. has initiated a legal battle against one of its smaller upstart rivals, Avi Networks. The lawsuit, filed last month, accuses Avi Networks of patent infringement and spreading “false claims” about Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller product. News of the lawsuit came via The Register, which reported Thursday that the patent suit ...
Cybersecurity firm finds vulnerability in Google Apps Script programming language
Security researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in Google LLC’s Apps Script programming language that could potentially allow hackers to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims via Google Drive. Google Apps Script is a programming language based on JavaScript that’s used by developers to create extensions for Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, Slides and others. The vulnerability ...
Enterprise spending on IT infrastructure hardware grows 3% in 2017
Enterprise spending on information technology hardware grew at a healthy clip in the past 12 months, with combined revenues across six major market segments rising by almost 3 percent, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. The analyst firm said that aggregated revenue for enterprise IT infrastructure hardware topped $113 billion in 2017, with ...
AImotive lands $38M to fund its AI-based autonomous driving system
Autonomous driving technology creator AImotive has just landed $38 million in a Series C funding round as it seeks to gain a lead on some of its better-known competitors. The round was led by B Capital Group and Prime Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments, Samsung Catalyst Fund and earlier investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital, ...
Google’s Data Studio analytics tool gains access to more data with Community Connectors
Google LLC is enabling users of its Data Studio visualization tool to fetch data more easily from a range of sources. Data Studio is a free data analytics tool for developers that can be used to create informative reports and dashboards with visualizations that are easy to read and share. Google’s latest update to the platform ...
Data center merger and acquisition activity topped $20 billion in 2017
Merger and acquisition activity in the data center space accelerated last year, with the total value of transactions in 2017 topping $20 billion, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. That total far exceeds the combined transaction amount in the preceding two years, Synergy said. What’s more, four additional deals in the space, valued at ...