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Microsoft to open Azure Cloud data centers in Africa in 2018
Microsoft Corp. is eyeing African customers for its Azure cloud with the opening of its first two data centers on the continent. The company announced on Thursday it’s planning to open two new facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, in a move that will stretch its cloud presence to 40 regions globally. Up until ...
Cloud-native security startup Aporeto lands $11.2M funding round
Aporeto Inc., a “cloud-native” security startup that aims to secure untrusted information technology environments, has just raised $11.2 million in a Series A funding round ahead of its product launch later this year. The company said it’s launching its services in public beta today, ahead of a full product launch slated for this summer. Aporeto is just the ...
IBM lands $700M cloud computing contract with Bombardier
Troubled Canadian transportation giant Bombardier Inc. has just inked a six-year, $700 million deal with IBM Corp. to use its cloud services as part of a larger restructuring initiative. Last year, Bombardier said it was laying off more than 14,000 of its staff worldwide, following a $2 billion budget overrun and a two-year delay of ...
Google enables location awareness in IoT devices without GPS
Google Inc. Tuesday announced it’s teaming up with Internet of Things platform provider Particle Industries Inc. to make devices “location aware” using the Google Maps geolocation application programming interface. Previously, in order to make devices location aware, it was necessary to install a GPS module on the device or sensor. But these modules can be expensive, ...
Microsoft and the UN partner on technology to combat human rights abuses
Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it’s entering into a “landmark” five-year partnership with the United Nations that will see them use advanced new technologies to further the cause of human rights. The company said it’s donating $5 million in the form of a grant to the U.N. Humans Rights Office. In addition, it will also ...
AWS still dominates cloud infrastructure market but Google and Microsoft gain
To no one’s surprise, Amazon Web Services maintains its lead in the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market, according to the latest analysis released Monday from research outfit Canalys. AWS commanded a 31 percent share of the market in the first quarter of 2017, though its main rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. both saw superior revenue ...
Cray brings its supercomputing systems to the cloud
Legendary supercomputer company Cray Inc. today said it will offer its high-end systems and technologies as a cloud-based service to enterprises and other high-performance computing organizations. Cray said it’s teaming up with cloud computing provider Markley Group to offer its supercomputing systems as a service, beginning with systems for the life sciences industry, it said ...
VMware’s Horizon Cloud platform brings virtual desktops to Microsoft Azure
VMware Inc. is expanding its Horizon Cloud platform onto Microsoft Corp.’s Azure public cloud. The partnership is designed to help customers accelerate their migration to Windows 10 while making VMware’s suite of virtual desktops and applications available to Azure customers, the companies said. Horizon Cloud made its debut in February on IBM’s SoftLayer cloud. It ...
Nutanix to run hyperconverged infrastructure on IBM Power Systems
“Hyperconverged” infrastructure player Nutanix Inc. will announce early Tuesday that it’s teaming up with IBM Corp. in a partnership that will see its all-in-one data center appliances run on hardware powered by IBM Power Systems chips. The systems will be the first from Nutanix that don’t rely on Intel Corp.-powered servers. Nutanix made its name pioneering the concept ...
VMware acquires mobile app intelligence startup Apteligent
VMware Inc. Monday closed on its second acquisition in the space of a month, buying up the mobile application intelligence startup Apteligent Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Apteligent, which was originally known as Crittercism, began its life as a tool for analyzing mobile application performance and data. Later the tool evolved into a platform for ...