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IBM, Cisco update VersaStack with new virtual desktop, hybrid cloud capabilities
IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are updating their joint converged infrastructure solution VersaStack with new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and hybrid cloud capabilities. The update should help users to reduce costs associated with keeping their data centers up and running, increase data security in hybrid cloud workloads and streamline troubleshooting, the companies said. IBM and Cisco’s ...
Synaptics’ shares rise after two acquisitions, strong earnings
Human interface technology provider Synaptics Inc. announced a couple of strategic acquisitions today, buoying its shares in after-hours trading. The maker of display controllers, touchpads and fingerprint sensors said it agreed to buy both Conexant Systems LLC and the Multimedia Solutions Business of Marvell Technology Group. The company will pay about $300 million in cash and 726,666 shares of ...
Docker launches its first official container services in China
Docker Inc. is stepping up its efforts to tap into the Chinese market with the launch of the first Docker Public Registry in the country. The release provides Chinese users with free access to community-generated content that includes official Docker images. Docker said that China is already home to the third-largest community of Docker container ...
SoftBank buys robotics startups Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. said Thursday it has acquired Boston Dynamics from Google Inc.’s parent company Alphabet Inc., ending months of uncertainty about the robotics firm and its sometimes creepy walking machines. SoftBank said the deal also includes a second, more secretive robotics company called Schaft, which was acquired by Google from its Japanese ...
Big-data pioneer Cloudera’s shares tank after its first post-IPO earnings
Shares of big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. plummeted as much as 18 percent in after-hours trading Thursday following its first earnings report since going public in April. The company, which offers machine learning and data analytics products based around the open-source Apache Hadoop platform for managing huge amounts of data across computer systems, actually reported results ...
Amazon opens up its IoT edge computing service Greengrass to all
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its edge computing play fully public with the launch into general availability of AWS Greengrass, an Internet of Things services that enables customers to deliver compute, data caching, messaging and synchronization capabilities to connected devices. Greengrass was first launched in limited preview at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las ...
Worldwide server revenues plunge as enterprises head for the cloud
The server market has had a difficult year so far in 2017, according to analyst firms Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp., both of which published global server market reports Wednesday showing a decline in revenues and shipments. According to Gartner, worldwide server revenues hit $12.5 billion in the first quarter of 2017, a 4.5 ...
Okta’s shares jump 5 percent after first post-IPO earnings
Identity and device management services provider Okta Inc. today posted solid earnings in its first quarterly results following an initial public offering in April. The company’s first quarter showed a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of 50 cents per share on revenue of $53 million. That compared with a loss of $1.04 per share on revenue of ...
Google releases Spinnaker for continuous delivery of updates to cloud apps
Google Inc. has released version 1.0 of Spinnaker, an open-source management platform originally developed by Netflix Inc. that enables application code to be deployed in the cloud. Netflix first built the technology to enable the continuous delivery of software updates to apps and services hosted on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud platform. But in 2014 Netflix ...
VMware updates vRealize suite for hybrid cloud management
With enterprises adoption of the hybrid cloud computing model picking up faster than expected, VMware Inc. is rolling out a series of updates to its popular vRealize suite of cloud management tools. VMware’s vRealize suite is used by enterprises to manage and provision workloads such as compute, storage, network and application services at scale in ...