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Intel unveils new Atom chips for the Internet of Things
Intel is making an Internet of Things play with the launch of an update Atom chip that packs in double the compute power and boosts graphics performance by three times of its predecessor. Intel’s Atom E3900 series is the next step up from the E3800 line, released in 2013. According to Ken Caviasca, vice president ...
OpenStack demonstrates ability to work across multiple clouds
The reality of information technology today is that most enterprises want to mix and match platforms from multiple different vendors, a reality that has driven the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform to make interoperability a key goal. At the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona Wednesday, 18 members of the platform announced that they’ve achieved just that, demonstrating the ...
ServiceNow beats analysts’ forecasts with strong Q3 results
Cloud automation platform vendor ServiceNow Inc. posted better-than-expected results in its third quarter, prompting its shares to jump by almost 5 percent in after-hours trading, to $78.90. The company registered a net loss of $36.3 million, or 22 cents a share, on revenues of $357.7 million, up 37 percent year-over-year. However, non-GAAP earnings, before certain ...
Samsung’s smartphone profits collapse after Galaxy Note7 recall
The world’s largest smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., saw its revenues and profits tank in the last quarter. Not surprisingly, the consumer electronics giant blamed the losses on plunging sales that resulted from its recall of the high-end Galaxy Note7. Samsung said in its third-quarter earnings report Wednesday that its IT and Mobile Communications division ...
Red Hat: OpenStack moving beyond the proof-of-concept phase
OpenStack production deployments increased significantly in the last year, according to a survey of 150 information technology decision makers and professionals carried out by Red Hat Inc. Red Hat’s annual poll found that 43 percent of respondents have deployed the cloud platform in production, compared to just 16 percent one year ago. The company reckons ...
Mirantis, HPE announce new solutions at OpenStack Summit
Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. had good news and bad news to reveal at Tuesday’s OpenStack Summit. The company has signed what could be a profitable deal with the world’s third-largest telecommunications firm, NTT Communications. However, that news was dampened somewhat by the announcement it has to lay off a number of its engineering staff. ...
Forrester: U.S. tech spending to grow 5.1 percent in 2017
Forrester Research Inc. has offered up a rather optimistic forecast on tech spending in the U.S., saying it will increase by 5.1 percent to $1.51 trillion in 2017. The forecast comes just a week after Gartner Inc. published its own report on global IT spending, which predicted more tepid worldwide growth of just 2.9 percent. However, Forrester’s prediction comes with ...
Amazon offers up new migration service for virtualized workloads
Just days after tying up a deal with VMware Inc. to allow vSphere to run on its cloud, Amazon Web Services has introduced a new migration service that lets companies easily teleport virtualized workloads onto its cloud. According to AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr, the new AWS Server Migration Service will “replicate your server’s volumes ...
Intel invests $38M in a dozen high-tech sports startups
Intel Corp. is hoping to bring next-generation technologies such as data analytics, tracking and image capture to the world of pro sports with the creation of a new Intel Sports Group. The new group was announced by Intel Capital president Wendell Brooks at its Global Summit in San Diego Monday, together with investments totaling $38 ...
IBM drops SoftLayer brand, moves cloud offerings to Bluemix
With surprisingly little fanfare, IBM Corp. has decided to do away with its SoftLayer brand and reorganize all of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings under the Bluemix moniker. “Today, we’re excited to share the next big step in SoftLayer’s evolution as part of the IBM Cloud portfolio: IBM Bluemix is integrating SoftLayer products and services into its vast ...