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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 ...
Dell pushes for greater container adoption with new REX-Ray orchestration platform release
Dell Technologies Inc. is hoping to boost standardization around software containers with the release of its latest orchestration platform REX-Ray v0.10, which incorporates a prerelease of the Container Storage Interface 0.1 specification. REX-Ray is an open-source container orchestration platform that was built by {code}, Dell’s open-source organization, which contributes to a number of major open-source ...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces its first certified Kubernetes providers
With Kubernetes steadily gaining traction among enterprises invested in application container development, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has named six companies among its founding class of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers. The CNCF said the KCSP designation means that Accenture Plc, Booze Allen Hamilton Inc., Canonical Ltd., CoreOS Inc., Giant Swarm GmbH and Samsung SDS are ...
Qualcomm loses bid to limit Apple lawsuits as patent royalties row rumbles on
Semiconductor company Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s latest bid to force iPhone contract manufacturers to resume royalty payments worth billions of dollars has been rejected by a federal judge who said they could continue withholding payments until its dispute with Apple Inc. is resolved. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego ruled on Sept. 8 that ...
Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle highlights emerging cloud security technologies
Technology industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. Thursday published its latest Hype Cycle for Cloud Security products, which is designed to inform security personnel about which technologies are ready for mainstream adoption and which are not quite ready for prime time. Gartner said rapid growth in the adoption of cloud technologies is driving huge interest in ...
Amazon plans to open machine learning research center in Barcelona
Amazon.com Inc. intends to hire more than 100 engineers and scientists to work at a new research and development facility for machine learning that it plans to open in Barcelona, Spain, early next year. The new R&D center will be housed in the same building as Amazon’s Seller Support Hub in Barcelona’s urban renewal startup area known ...
Tintri’s shares plunge following massive loss and a light sales outlook
Flash storage systems specialist Tintri Inc. is down in the dumps today after a disappointing second-quarter earnings report, its first since launching its initial public offering in June. The company reported a huge net loss of $51.7 million, or $2.05 per share, on revenue of $34.9 million. That was an improvement on Tintri’s $7.53 per ...
Google enables faster, more secure cloud connections with Dedicated Interconnect
In an effort to make its cloud services more competitive with rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, Google Inc. is announcing a new Dedicated Interconnect option for enterprise customers seeking higher availability or lower-latency connections. In a blog post, John Veizades, product manager for Dedicated Interconnect at Google, said the ...