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Red Hat software and services land on Alibaba Cloud
China’s Alibaba Cloud wants to elevate its relevance in the global public cloud market, and one of the most tried and tested ways of doing that is through teaming up with more established technology partners. With that in mind, Alibaba Cloud, which is the cloud computing arm of eCommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said today that ...
Qualcomm offers EU concessions to gain approval for NXP Semiconductor takeover
Smartphone semiconductor firm and all-round mobile patents king Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is prepared to compromise with European Union regulators in order to seal the deal on its proposed acquisition of Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors NV. The $38 billion acquisition, announced in October 2016, has been beset by delays as Qualcomm has this year been embroiled ...
Western Digital debuts new MAMR disk drive technology to meet data center storage challenges
As the amount of new data being created in the world grows exponentially with each passing year, traditional data center storage systems are rapidly becoming obsolete. A paper published earlier this year by research International Data Corp. forecasts that the amount of data created each year will balloon to a staggering 163 zettabytes by 2025. When one ...
Teradata: AI advances will lead to the rise of the chief AI officer
Database services and business analytics software provider Teradata Corp. is the latest organization to take a long, hard look at the advances in artificial intelligence technology, and what the implications are for enterprises. The company commissioned U.K.-based market research firm Vanson Bourne Ltd. to create its new report, State of Artificial Intelligence for Enterprises, and ...
Intel advances quantum computing efforts with new 17-qubit chip
Two years after Intel Corp. announced it was investing $50 million into quantum computing research in a joint initiative with Dutch partners, the company has delivered its first 17-qubit superconducting test chip to advance those efforts. Intel on Tuesday said it was delivering the chip to QuTech, a research institute it helped set up two years ...
Deloitte gets into the product game with workforce analytics tool LaborWise
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is best known for the information technology consultancy services it provides to enterprises, but now the company is looking to broaden its horizons with the launch of a series of standalone software products tailored to address specific customer pain points. The first of those products is called LaborWise, which Deloitte describes as a ...
Not content with just cars, Google wants to build autonomous ships as well
After spearheading the development of autonomous self-driving cars for several years, Google LLC is now turning its attention to commercial shipping. The internet giant announced last week that it’s going to work with Rolls-Royce Holdings plc to help improve the engineering firm’s intelligent awareness systems for ships. The partnership will see Rolls-Royce use Google’s Cloud Machine Learning Engine ...
Splunk acquires staff and technology assets from former rival Rocana
A fairly heated dispute between two leading business intelligence platform providers seems to be done and dusted after Splunk Inc. said it’s acquiring some technology and intellectual property assets from rival Rocana Inc. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Publicly held Splunk is fairly well-known as a leader in business intelligence, offering a ...
SAP and VMware partner to make enterprise IoT deployments easier
Software giants SAP SE and VMware Inc. are teaming up to launch a new enterprise-focused “internet of things” initiative that encompasses devices, the cloud, infrastructure and other applications. The two companies said their new partnership is all about accelerating and streamlining enterprise internet of things initiatives. The goal, they said, is to enable “fast deployment, ...
Ascendify lands $11M funding to bring predictive analytics to talent management
Skills shortages are a growing problem for enterprises today, preventing many from adopting new technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. To address this challenge, a startup called Ascendify Corp. is touting its Intelligent People Management talent acquisition platform as a possible solution. Ascendify’s talent recruitment platform is built on what the company calls ...