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IBM can now simulate chemical molecules on its quantum computers
IBM Corp. has claimed a major new breakthrough in its quantum computing efforts. The company said it has created a new approach to simulating molecules using a quantum computer that could have a transformative effect on materials science and chemistry and enhance our understanding of complex chemical reactions. IBM said the breakthrough could lead to new practical applications ...
Toshiba aims to sell flash memory unit to consortium including Apple and Dell
Apple Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. may soon be part-owners of Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory chip business. Toshiba said Wednesday it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity LP to “negotiate a mutually satisfactory definitive agreement” over the sale of its flash unit by the end ...
Trump blocks sale of Lattice Semiconductor to China-backed firm
U.S. President Donald Trump has blocked the proposed sale of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. to a private equity firm backed by Chinese investors, saying the deal “threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” Lattice, which is based in Hillsboro, Oregon, manufacturers microprocessor chips used in data centers, video devices and industrial equipment. The ...
Oracle joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation, adds new container services
As the excitement around software containers reaches fever pitch, database software giant Oracle Corp. is throwing its weight behind the cause. The company said Wednesday it’s signing up as a platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the organization leading the development of the Kubernetes container orchestrator tool. In addition, the company has just ...
Ride-hailing firms Lyft and Uber open-source microservices technology
Ride-hailing companies Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are embracing the open-source software movement. The two megastartups have both donated technologies developed in-house to the Cloud Native Computing Federation, which is best known for hosting the Kubernetes container orchestrator project. The CNCF announced the news at the Open Source Summit North America on Wednesday, describing ...
Oracle opens up enterprise Java and moves it to the Eclipse Foundation
Oracle Corp. will “more fully open up” its Java Enterprise Edition middleware platform by moving it to the Eclipse open-source software foundation. Java EE is a collection of technologies and application program interfaces for the Java platform designed to support “enterprise” applications, which are generally large-scale, distributed, transactional and highly available applications designed to support ...
It’s not much, but global server sales are actually rising
Chinese companies appear to be winning out against their U.S. rivals in the server market, if analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s second-quarter report is on the mark. Gartner said global server revenue climbed 2.8 percent from a year ago, to $13.93 billion, with shipments rising by 2.4 percent, to 2.82 million units. Those statistics suggest that average ...
Qubole launches platform to automate big data workloads in the cloud
Big data as a service company Qubole Inc. is launching three new products today aimed at helping organizations scale out their data initiatives while cutting back on costs. The products in question are components of Qubole’s Autonomous Data Platform, announced in May, which leverages machine learning technology to automate companies’ big-data workloads. Qubole Data Service ...
IBM and VMware solidify cloud alliance with new announcements
IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. took to the stage at the VMworld Europe 2017 conference in Barcelona today to reveal the fruits of a cloud computing partnership that began 18 months ago. The two computing giants revealed their strategic partnership during IBM’s InterConnect Conference in February 2016, saying they were joining forces to help enterprises ...
Google launches appeal against record EU antitrust fine
Google Inc.’s parent company Alphabet Inc. said it will lodge an appeal with the European Commission over its decision to fine it $2.9 billion for abusing its dominance of the search engine market. The move does not come as a surprise, even less so following the news that Intel Corp. managed to win an appeal ...