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CSRA lands huge cloud computing contract from the DoD
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency Monday said it awarded a cloud computing contract that’s potentially worth almost a half-billion dollars to a relatively unknown provider called CSRA Inc. CSRA describes itself as a pure-play government information technology vendor that was formed through the merger of Computer Science Corp.’s North American public sector ...
US firms face ‘scramble’ to comply with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation
A new study on enterprises’ readiness for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has revealed that an overwhelming number of U.S. companies are totally unprepared for the legislation, which is due to come into effect next year. When it comes into force on May 25, 2018, the GDPR will force companies to enact greater ...
Most firms underestimate cloud migration costs, study finds
Enterprises should get their houses in order before attempting to move their most critical applications to the cloud, concludes a new study. So-called hybrid cloud strategies, which is a term used to describe moving some workloads to the public cloud while keeping others in-house, are growing in popularity among enterprises. But a new cloud migration ...
US tech firms allowed Russia’s government to view their source code
Some of the biggest names in U.S. tech have agreed to share their source code with Russian authorities in order to continue doing business in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The news agency reported Friday that it has seen documents showing that Russia’s Federal Security Service and Federal Service for Technical and Export ...
Imagination Tech puts itself up for sale after Apple dumps its chip design
The U.K. semiconductor firm that designed the graphics chips used in Apple Inc.’s iPhones said today it’s putting itself up for sale. The move comes less than three months after Apple said it would no longer be using designs from Imagination Technologies Group Plc and instead would build its own. Apple confirmed in April that it ...
GE Ventures backs enterprise asset management firm Nuvolo in $10M Series A round
Enterprise asset management provider Nuvolo has just landed $10 million in a Series A funding round led by GE Ventures, the venture capital arm of General Electric Company. Nuvolo offers software as a service to the healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries to help them better manage digital assets such as medical devices and laboratory ...
Google proposes new framework to deal with overseas data requests
Google Inc. on Thursday put forward a proposal to revamp laws governing the access of data held in overseas data centers that could potentially aid criminal investigations. The tech giant is hoping to pioneer a new legal framework that would aid prosecutors while continuing to protect user’s privacy. Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president and general ...
Red Hat launches hyperconverged infrastructure platform for remote locations
Red Hat Inc. is touting a new hyperconverged infrastructure offering that combines its virtualization and storage technologies with its enterprise Linux operating system to deliver data center capabilities in remote facilities. The company said there’s a growing demand for this kind of solution from organizations with distributed operations, for example those in the banking, energy ...
AWS to add new data center region in Hong Kong next year
Amazon Web Services Inc. will open a new data center region in Hong Kong early next year, becoming AWS’s eighth cloud computing region in Asia Pacific. The company currently offers regions in Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing, Seoul and Mumbai, and is set to add a second Chinese region in Ningxia later this year. “Together, these Regions ...
AWS adds new accelerator to boost DynamoDB database performance
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database generally available, just two months after launching it in preview mode. AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels made the announcement in a blog post on Wednesday. He said the DynamoDB Accelerator, or DAX, enables a sharply improved performance on certain kinds of database ...