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Google explains some of the advanced measures it takes to protect data in its cloud
With the rise of ransomware and other forms of cyberattacks this year, computer security is becoming a major concern for most enterprises. In response, Google LLC has taken the opportunity to advocate some of the advanced measures it uses to protect its cloud customer’s data. In a blog post Wednesday morning about a newly published ...
Toshiba and Western Digital end their battle over flash memory business sale
Computer storage giants Toshiba Corp. and Western Digital Corp. said have finally ended their long-running dispute over the sale of the former company’s flash memory business. Toshiba has been trying to sell its Toshiba Memory Corp. business unit, which is the second-largest supply of NAND flash memory chips in the world, to a consortium led ...
Facing competition from Amazon, Google slashes cloud machine learning prices
Google LLC has reacted to the launch of rival Amazon Web Services Inc.’s SageMaker machine learning service by dramatically slashing the cost of its own offering. Technology news website VentureBeat first reported the price cuts, citing a blog posted online by Google that was later removed. However, the new prices for its managed cloud machine ...
Juniper automates network security with policy management and threat prevention
Juniper Networks Inc. is beefing up security for its networking infrastructure with a new update to its platform that automates policy management and makes it easier to mitigate security breaches. The company said today that it’s updating its Software-Defined Secure Networks platform in order to relieve the strain on overworked security teams, who it said ...
Amazon Web Services opens up its second region in China
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its presence in China with the addition of a second region in the country, bringing its total up to 17 regions globally. Amazon said late Monday that it’s partnering with the cloud services company Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd., which will manage and operate ...
Synaptics debuts built-in fingerprint scanners for mobile displays
Human interface builder Synaptics Corp. is hoping to steal a march on mobile security system designers with the launch of what it says is the world’s first fingerprint sensor that comes built into smartphone displays. The company said its display sensor technology works by scanning user’s fingerprints directly through the glass display of smartphones, doing ...
Kubernetes 1.9 release brings greater stability and storage features
The Kubernetes developer community is capping off a successful year with the release of Kubernetes 1.9, adding important new features that should help to further encourage enterprise adoption. Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestrator management software. It’s used to simplify the deployment and management of software containers, which are a popular tool among developers ...
Iron Mountain snaps up IO Data Center’s U.S. business in $1.3B deal
Document shredding and data management company Iron Mountain Inc. today said it’s planning to buy IO Data Center LLC’s U.S. business for $1.3 billion. Boston-based Iron Mountain has been busy snapping up data center facilities across the globe in recent months. The company in September said it was buying a 210,000-square-foot facility from Denver-based Fortrust. It’s ...
Hybrid cloud growth drives up global server spending
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary Dell EMC remain at the front of the computer server market in terms of revenue and units shipped, but their lead is being threatened by rapid growth from Chinese rivals. That’s according to the latest data from the research firm Gartner Inc., which said today in its latest ...
SoftBank gets into real estate tech with $450M investment in Compass
Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Ltd. has made yet another bet on a promising startup, investing a serious $450 million today in New York City-based real estate technology company Compass. Investing via its $100 billion Vision Fund, SoftBank proclaimed the deal to be the “largest real estate technology investment in U.S. history.” The deal follows a $100 ...