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The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency Monday said it awarded a cloud computing contract that’s potentially worth almost a half-billion dollars to a relatively unknown provider called CSRA Inc. CSRA describes itself as a pure-play government information technology vendor that …
US firms face ‘scramble’ to comply with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation
A new study on enterprises’ readiness for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has revealed that an overwhelming number of U.S. companies are totally unprepared for the legislation, which is due to come into effect next year. When it comes into …
Most firms underestimate cloud migration costs, study finds
Enterprises should get their houses in order before attempting to move their most critical applications to the cloud, concludes a new study. So-called hybrid cloud strategies, which is a term used to describe moving some workloads to the public cloud while keeping …
US tech firms allowed Russia’s government to view their source code
Some of the biggest names in U.S. tech have agreed to share their source code with Russian authorities in order to continue doing business in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The news agency reported Friday that it has seen documents …
Imagination Tech puts itself up for sale after Apple dumps its chip design
The U.K. semiconductor firm that designed the graphics chips used in Apple Inc.’s iPhones said today it’s putting itself up for sale. The move comes less than three months after Apple said it would no longer be using designs from Imagination Technologies …
GE Ventures backs enterprise asset management firm Nuvolo in $10M Series A round
Enterprise asset management provider Nuvolo has just landed $10 million in a Series A funding round led by GE Ventures, the venture capital arm of General Electric Company. Nuvolo offers software as a service to the healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries …
Google proposes new framework to deal with overseas data requests
Google Inc. on Thursday put forward a proposal to revamp laws governing the access of data held in overseas data centers that could potentially aid criminal investigations. The tech giant is hoping to pioneer a new legal framework that would aid prosecutors …
Red Hat launches hyperconverged infrastructure platform for remote locations
Red Hat Inc. is touting a new hyperconverged infrastructure offering that combines its virtualization and storage technologies with its enterprise Linux operating system to deliver data center capabilities in remote facilities. The company said there’s a growing demand for this kind of …
AWS to add new data center region in Hong Kong next year
Amazon Web Services Inc. will open a new data center region in Hong Kong early next year, becoming AWS’s eighth cloud computing region in Asia Pacific. The company currently offers regions in Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing, Seoul and Mumbai, and is set to …
AWS adds new accelerator to boost DynamoDB database performance
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database generally available, just two months after launching it in preview mode. AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels made the announcement in a blog post on Wednesday. He said the DynamoDB …