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Red Hat brings AWS cloud services to OpenShift software container platform
Red Hat Inc. is extending its partnership with Amazon Web Services by providing access to the public cloud platform through its OpenShift software container and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. The hybrid cloud collaboration was announced at the Red Hat Summit Tuesday. The open-source company also announced a host of new developer tools for containers, which allow ...
Facebook builds a new data center network to separate user traffic from machine data
Facebook Inc. deals with an enormous amount of data generated by its 1.86 billion users, including photos, videos and chat messages. But that’s not the only data it deals with, and in fact its user-generated data is dwarfed by the massive flow of machine data among its own facilities. Data volumes soared to such an ...
Despite an otherwise solid quarter, AMD shares tank on weak server chip sales
Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw its share price crash by about 8 percent in after-hours trading on Monday after reporting lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue in its server chip business. AMD’s server business, which makes microchips for both servers and gaming consoles, saw revenues increase by 5 percent from a year ago, to $391 million. ...
Despite cloud growth, the data center still dominates enterprise workloads
The trend toward cloud computing might dominate all the headlines in the tech media, but on-premises workloads are still all the rage among enterprises, according to a new survey by the Uptime Institute. The advisory organization today published the results of its seventh annual Data Center Industry Survey, with the main finding being that although ...
NSA agrees to stop spying on emails that mention foreign targets
The National Security Agency has said it will stop snooping on American citizens’ private emails that mention foreign individuals targeted for surveillance, the New York Times reported. Citing a U.S. official familiar with the decision, the Times said Friday that the NSA will no longer collect or analyze emails that mention identifying terms – such as ...
Qualcomm says Apple could cost it $500M this quarter in ongoing patent spat
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s patent spat with Apple Inc. is getting nastier, as the chip maker alleges that iPhone maker has ordered contract manufacturers to stop paying royalties until the dispute is resolved. On Friday, Qualcomm’s lawyers said Apple was to blame for the company slashing $500 million from its next quarterly forecast, as a result ...
IBM bolsters OpenWhisk serverless compute platform with software management tools
IBM Corp. has updated its OpenWhisk serverless computing service to provide high-order management functions for developers building application programming interfaces. APIs are one of the most common use cases for serverless compute platforms, which are designed for developers who don’t want to worry about the underlying infrastructure they’re using. The best-known serverless compute platform is ...
Rackspace expands managed services for Amazon Web Services cloud
Rackspace Inc. is stepping up its new strategy piggybacking on the success of Amazon Web Services with a new managed services offering aimed at helping enterprises get the best out of the cloud platform. The company on Thursday launched Professional Services for AWS with what Rackspace says deep, customized expertise for the AWS cloud. Rackspace ...
Atlassian tops earnings estimates but shares stay flat
Australian enterprise collaboration software maker Atlassian Corp. Plc. shrugged off last weekend’s hack of its HipChat communications platform, posting strong fiscal third-quarter earnings and updating future guidance that helped bump up its share price a notch. Atlassian posted revenue of $159.9 million for the period, up 36 percent from a year ago to surpass Wall ...
Google targets India with improved translation tools and language support
Google Inc. is ramping up its effort to get more Indians online with the introduction of improved language support across multiple products. Internet users in the Indian subcontinent currently number around 400 million, but Google has made no secret of its desire to increase this number. Last year at its second Google India event, the ...