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HyTrust snaps up struggling DataGravity, lands $36M funding round
Cloud security company HyTrust Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired the data management and security startup DataGravity Inc. for an undisclosed fee. HyTrust the announcement at the same time as it revealed a new $36 million Series E funding round led by Advance Venture Partners. Rumors that DataGravity had been acquired begun swirling last week, beginning with ...
In a bid to keep its lead in data centers, Intel launches new Xeon Scalable chips
Intel Corp. unveiled a series of new server processors on Tuesday that it claims are 1.65 times faster than its predecessors. Intel’s Xeon Scalable chip series, which ranges from eight processing cores all the way up to 28 cores, are designed to counter a new threat to the company’s server chip business from rival Advanced ...
HPE updates backup and recovery suite for better protection against ransomware
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today released an updated version of its Adaptive Backup Recovery Suite aimed at helping organizations get to grips with new security threats such as ransomware as well as the explosive growth in data they accumulate. The company said in its pitch that organizations are under increasing pressure to provide more secure backup ...
Rackspace announces its Fanatical Support services for Microsoft’s Azure Stack
Managed-services company Rackspace Inc. has wasted no time in announcing Fanatical Support services for Microsoft Azure Stack, just hours after the Redmond-based company said its on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship. Azure Stack can be thought of as Microsoft’s Azure cloud in a box. It’s designed to be deployed by customers in their own ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure data warehouse with tripled compute power
Microsoft Corp. announced a major update to its Azure SQL Data Warehouse service at its Inspire partner conference on Monday, delivering some serious enhancements to its compute and storage capabilities that allow users to carry out “petabyte-scale” analysis. Microsoft said the update is designed to meet the increasing demands of Azure SQL Data Warehouse users, ...
Tech giants form a new alliance to take on patent trolls
Many of the technology industry’s biggest companies today announced they’re joining forces in a bid to reform U.S. patent laws and tamp down so-called patent trolls. The group includes Adobe Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. The companies have just created a new ...
News outlets ask Congress for help in ad revenue dispute with Facebook and Google
Major media companies, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal owner News Corp., are reportedly joining forces in an effort to renegotiate the advertising revenue they receive from Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. The media companies are seeking an antitrust exemption from Congress that would allow them to bargain with the Internet ...
IT infrastructure spending to rise 12.4% in 2017, driven by the cloud
The insatiable demand for more public and private cloud services among enterprises will drive a 12.4 percent surge in information technology infrastructure spending this year, according to analyst firm International Data Corp. IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, released Wednesday, says spending on servers, storage and Ethernet switches should top $40.1 billion by the ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure cloud in UK with software container service and more
As one of the world’s biggest public cloud computing providers, Microsoft Corp. has an expansive global reach. But not everyone is aware that the company’s cloud service offerings differ quite substantially depending on where in the world you’re located. Most of its newer services are made available to North American customers first, before being rolled ...
In bitter legal spat, Qualcomm asks for ban on Apple iPhone imports
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has taken another stab at Apple Inc. in the companies’ pitched legal battle, accusing the iPhone maker of infringing six of its patents and demanding a ban on the import of iOS handsets into the U.S. The company said in a statement Thursday that iPhones and iPads powered by Intel’s 4G wireless chips ...