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French aerospace contractor Thales buys digital security firm Gemalto for $5.6B
French aerospace contractor Thales Group Sunday said it will acquire the digital security startup Gemalto NV in an all-cash deal worth $5.6 billion. The move comes just days after information technology services firm Atos Corp. saw a $5.1 billion offer for the company rejected. The offer, which has been unanimously approved by Gemalto’s board of directors, is a 57 percent ...
Xen Project updates its hypervisor with security and UI improvements
The Xen Project has just updated its open-source hypervisor to version 4.10, with new security features and improvements to its underlying code and user interface. The updated platform, which is used by numerous public cloud providers and is also the base for many commercial virtualization products, also integrated ARM-based hardware for the first time. The ...
28% of enterprises are assessing blockchain, but almost no one’s using it
Interest in blockchain technology is growing among enterprises, but adoption is still nascent, with just 3 percent of businesses actually using it in production this year. That’s according to 451 Research Inc.’s new Blockchain Codex 2017 report, published Thursday, which takes a look at some of the ways in which the technology is being explored ...
What’s quantum computing good for? IBM is ready to show and tell
IBM Corp. is doubling down on its quantum computing research efforts with the aid of clients who have been granted early access to its IBM Q platform, the company’s commercial quantum computing service. With its partners, Big Blue has created what it calls the IBM Q Network in order to foster greater collaboration and explore ...
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 ...