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What IBM’s new quantum processor means for the future of computing
Tucked away at IBM Corp.’s T.J. Watson Research Center in a high-tech fridge cooled to almost absolute zero is an experimental chip that could help advance scientific inquiry further than any conventional supercomputer. It’s the culmination of a more than three-decade research effort that the technology giant launched shortly after Richard Feynman first proposed the ...
Microsoft acquires IoT platform-as-a-service provider Solair
Microsoft Corp.’s public cloud could become much better-equipped to store and analyze data from the connected universe thanks to its newly announced acquisition of Solair Sri. Founded in 2011, the Italian startup offers a line of managed services designed to automate the tougher aspects of processing machine-generated transmissions. The lynchpin of the suite is a physical network ...
Dell to rebrand after EMC acquisition
Despite the fact Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. must still clear several major hurdles before it can become official, the vendor’s leadership team is already preparing for the day the deal is approved. In a public letter to employees released on occasion of the storage giant’s annual user summit this week, Michael ...
CloudHealth raises $20M to automate large-scale IaaS environments
Organizations have a wide variety of tools at their disposal for monitoring their cloud expenses, and there’s an even bigger selection of services designed to help track operational parameters like performance. But only a handful of vendors provide the ability to do both in the same interface. Among them is CloudHealth Technologies Inc., which has ...
EMC World 2016 kicks off with new flash arrays and data management tech
The thousands of storage experts, vendors and other industry insiders who descended upon The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas today for EMC Corp.’s annual conference were greeted by a raft of new products spanning its entire portfolio. Since the vendor last refreshed its array lineup only a couple months ago, the roster features just a ...
From construction to utilities: Oracle continues vertical services push with $548M Opower buy
Oracle Corp.’s financial department has a lot of paperwork to fill in the coming months. Last week, the vendor signed a $663 million agreement to acquire construction management specalist Textura Corp., and today, it’s buying Opower Inc. for $548 million. The transaction is poised to give the latter outfit’s shareholders a hefty 30.4 percent premium over its ...
What you missed in Big Data: AIs and graph processing rule the agenda
The usual movers and shakers of the analytics ecosystem last week found themselves having to share the limelight with Infosys Ltd., which made headlines by unveiling a machine learning platform for automating common business activities. Mana, as the system is called, can be used to do most of anything from processing payments to answering customer ...
What you missed in Cloud: Streamlining the worldwide web
The competition between the industry’s top cloud providers moved into the service integration space last week after Microsoft Corp. launched a new mamaged tool for coordinating work across popular web applications. Flow, as the offering is called, aims to challenge well-established alternatives such as IFTTT and Zapier by providing more than 35 pre-implemented connectors for handling various ...
Microsoft rolls out a cold storage service for Azure to match AWS Glacier
A month after launching a homegrown alternative to AWS Lambda, Microsoft Corp. is repeating the gambit in the storage arena with the introduction of a new archiving service for safekeeping infrequently-used records. It’s being offered at a similarly low rate as Amazon Inc.’s competing Glacier store and targets many of the same use cases, but ...
Outsourcing giant Infosys joins the AI fray as part of CEO’s software push
Since former SAP SE chief technology officer Vishal Sikka took over the reins two years ago, Infosys Ltd. has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in assembling a software portfolio to complement its main outsourcing business. The latest fruit of the vendor’s efforts is a machine learning platform that launched yesterday with the aim of helping organizations ...
