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Microsoft intros Azure Stack preview with continuous update model
Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled a new version of Azure Stack called Technical Preview 3. The new preview of its forthcoming Azure on-premises stack comes with a bunch of new updates, the promise of continuous updates and hints of the company’s pricing scheme for the service. In a blog post, Microsoft said that this will ...
Dell is dominating storage following EMC acquisition, IDC says
Market researcher International Data Corp. has introduced a new methodology for its latest Storage Tracker report, which puts Dell Technologies Inc. at the top of the tree with more external storage revenues than those of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., IBM Corp. and NetApp Inc. combined. Under the old Storage Tracker format, IDC offered separate tabulated data on ...
Microsoft extends Windows Server, SQL support for six years
Microsoft Corp. has delivered its “Premium Assurance” product that was unveiled last year. The new offering ensures enterprises will receive security updates and bug fixes to Windows Server and SQL Server for an additional six years after the official support period ends. Microsoft is also offering incentives for enterprises to sign up now. The company’s ...
HPE rebrands tech services division Pointnext under new chief
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is launching a major new effort aimed at helping its customers to adopt emerging new technologies including big data, cloud and the Internet of Things, the company said Thursday. The company has rebranded its technology services division under the banner of “HPE Pointnext.” The new division will work to help enterprise ...
Kensho gets $50m backing to bring AI-based investment tools to Wall Street
If there’s one industry where artificial intelligence can make a real difference, it’s got to be in the financial markets. By powering a new breed of software solutions that can provide automated recommendations on what to do next, AI has the potential to drive enormous profits for Wall Street investors. With that in mind, it’s no ...
Worldwide server revenues fall again as enterprises stall spending
Worldwide server shipments slumped again in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to new data from market watchers International Data Corp. and Gartner Inc. Both analyst firms reported declining revenues in the final quarter of the year. IDC said that revenues plummeted by 4.6 percent, to $14.6 billion, while Gartner saw a more modest 1.9 ...
VMware touts software-defined future for telcos with new vCloud NFV release
VMware Inc. is hoping to convince telecommunications providers to embrace the software-defined data center with the release of a new version of its Network Function Virtualization suite. The new product sports a bunch of telco-friendly features that should allow them to introduce new services faster. The announcement was one of three that VMware made at the ...
Cancer-fighting startup Freenome lands massive $65m Series A funding round
Freenome Inc., a startup that has built a “liquid biopsy diagnosis platform” to diagnose cancer in its early stages, has just raised $65 million in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz, the same venture capital firm that also headed up its $5.5 million seed round less than 12 months ...
Box finally turns cash-flow positive, but investors balk at tepid outlook
Enterprise cloud storage firm Box Inc. ended its fiscal 2017 with a solid fiscal fourth quarter, beating analysts’ expectations and moving to positive free cash flow for the first time since its initial public offering two years ago. It’s an important milestone for the company, but that success was tempered by first-quarter guidance lower than ...
‘Low-code’ software development poses security and data integration risks, survey finds
The growth of open-source software in the last decade has helped to revolutionize software development, enabling the rise of a phenomenon known as the “citizen application developer” who uses “low-code” platforms to build apps with minimal fuss. “Low-code” software development involves minimizing hand-coding of applications, instead configuring existing functions from other platforms and applications quickly ...