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Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 brings new features for managing virtual machines
Red Hat today introduced a new version of its virtualization platform, Red Hat Virtualization 4.4, that will help customers more easily manage their applications and give its hybrid cloud strategy a boost in the process. Red Hat Virtualization is an alternative to VMware Inc.’s vSphere. The platform runs on the IBM Corp. subsidiary’s widely used ...
Palo Alto Networks launches security marketplace for its Cortex XSOAR platform
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is enhancing its Cortex XSOAR cybersecurity platform with a marketplace where users can access automation scripts and other components that can ease their work. Publicly traded Palo Alto Networks is one of the biggest players in the security market. Its Cortex XSOAR platform automates common tasks involved in network protection teams’ ...
Google takes aim at the iPhone SE with new Pixel 4A
Google LLC today debuted the Pixel 4A, an entry-level phone that is priced lower than Apple Inc.’s most affordable iPhone model and offers double the storage. The Pixel 4A (pictured) underscores how device pricing is playing an increasingly important role in handset makers’ product roadmaps. Its announcement also serves a prelude to the upcoming launch of two other, ...
Amazon will invest $10B+ in low-Earth orbit internet satellites
Amazon.com Inc. is committing more than $10 billion to Project Kuiper, an initiative it announced last year to deploy 3,236 internet satellites in low-Earth orbit. The company detailed the planned investment on Thursday after the Federal Communications Commission granted Project Kuiper regulatory approval. Amazon’s plan is to use the internet satellites to improve connectivity in ...
Reports: Nvidia could offer $32B+ for Arm amid ‘advanced’ acquisition talks
Just over a week after word emerged that Nvidia Corp. is looking to buy Arm Ltd., a pair of new reports today have provided an update on the negotiations, saying a deal could be struck soon with a price tag potentially exceeding $32 billion. U.K.-based Arm provides chips designs that have been implemented in billions of ...
AI accounting startup Candis raises $14M in fresh funding
Candis GmbH, a German startup working to automate companies’ manual accounting workflows, today announced that it has raised 12 million euros (about $14 million) in a funding round led by Viola Ventures and Rabo Frontier Ventures. Several existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners chipped in as well. Candis provides a cloud-based accounting platform that uses ...
Wind River launches analytics service for monitoring 5G networks
Wind River Systems Inc., a major embedded software supplier whose technology is used in systems such as NASA spacecraft, today launched a service to help carriers ensure that their 5G networks are running smoothly. Wind River operated as an Intel Corp. subsidiary until it was sold in 2018. The company sells a widely used operating system ...
Google’s $2.1B Fitbit deal expected to face EU antitrust probe next week
Google LLC’s plan to buy smartwatch maker Fitbit Inc. has drawn the attention of European Union regulators, which Reuters reported today are expected to open an antitrust investigation into the deal. Sources told the news agency that the probe will be launched next week. Google last year inked a $2.1 billion agreement to acquire publicly traded Fitbit, which was estimated to ...
Google details fourth-generation TPUs with big AI speed boost
Google LLC today shared early details about a new iteration of its TPU chip for running artificial intelligence workloads that more than doubles the performance of the previous generation. Google’s TPU, or Tensor Processor Unit, is an application-specific integrated circuit designed with AI in mind. The new TPU model that the search giant detailed today ...
Juniper intros AI troubleshooting tools to automate more network operations
Juniper Networks Inc. today introduced new artificial intelligence tools that can automatically find issues in a company’s network to reduce connectivity issues for employees. The headline item is Mist WAN Assurance. It’s an AI-infused service for troubleshooting problems in the wide-area network that powers a company’s long-distance connections, such as connections between remote workers’ homes ...