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Seagate bids to slash flash storage costs with new RealStor arrays
Seagate Technology LLC is claiming big performance gains alongside a reduction in cost with the release Monday of a new lineup of all-flash and hybrid storage arrays. In a blog post, Seagate cites market research on the critical price points of all-flash storage, saying that systems priced under $100,000 have yet to take off in ...
Shield AI raises $10.5m to build terrorist-hunting drones
A startup that aims to save lives with its artificial intelligence-powered drones has just raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz. San Diego-based Shield AI said it makes drones that “find people and threats inside buildings without a remote pilot” in a statement on its website. ...
Expanding in Europe, Amazon Web Services sets new cloud region in Sweden next year
Amazon Web Services is to expand further into Europe with a new data center facility that’s set to open in Sweden sometime next year. AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog post that the AWS EU Stockholm region will be comprised of three availability zones when it opens in 2018, without giving a ...
Espresso: Google serves up software to give its public cloud a speed boost
Google Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Espresso, the latest piece of its never-ending quest to speed up its services all the way to the edge of its massive global network. Google has been steadily building out its networking infrastructure for more than 10 years in an effort to support new real-time services. Espresso, the latest piece ...
Rackspace launches new cloud migration service
Rackspace Inc. is hoping to take the headaches out of migrating to the cloud with a new service aimed at companies that wish to move their information technology workloads to public or private clouds. The company today announced its new Global Solutions and Services offering, which is aimed at enterprises lacking the expertise or the ...
Internet service providers insist they’re not going to sell your web browsing history
Three of America’s biggest Internet service providers have sought to reassure consumers that they have no plans to sell their Internet browsing data, following last week’s Congressional vote that allows them to do just that without obtaining customer consent first. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 215-205 to repeal privacy rules proposed by ...
Oracle says no to buying Accenture: ‘We’ve never even considered it’
While many companies simply choose not to comment on acquisition rumors, Oracle Corp. has came out to deny a recent report that it’s looking at buying the global consultancy firm Accenture Plc. It would have been one of the technology industry’s biggest deals ever. Last week, The Register’s Paul Kunert reported Oracle had begun hiring “global ...
The Linux Foundation offers free introductory course to Apache Hadoop
Apache Hadoop’s position as the leading light in big data is coming under threat from competing technologies such as Apache Spark, but the Linux Foundation believes there’s plenty of life left in the old framework. Critics of Hadoop, open-source software used for distributing storage and processing of big data sets across multiple computers, argue that it’s ...
Report: HPE ponders acquisition of backup leader Veeam Software
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is mulling an acquisition of data center backup and recovery provider Veeam Software Inc., according to reports. The Register cites unnamed sources as saying HPE is looking at buying the company to bolster its own data center backup and recovery business, which trails Veeam by some distance according to analyst firm ...
Verizon launches dedicated high-speed network for Internet of Things
Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday will launch a nationwide high-speed network to offer wireless access solutions for Internet of Things devices. Verizon says its 4G LTE Category M1 is a wide area network designed for IoT sensors that requires less power than normal networks. It enables longer battery lives and supports IoT devices such as ...