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Microsoft Flow takes on IFTTT task automation tool with enterprise features
Six months after announcing plans to take on IFTTT Inc.’s hugely popular task automation tool, Microsoft Corp. has officially launched its competing Flow service into general availability. The release brings a host of new features that are designed to streamline common work-related activities involving the software giant’s ubiquitous productivity offerings, particularly Office 365. One of ...
Chip giant Broadcom buys Brocade for $5.9 billion for data center presence
Increasing competition in the semiconductor market is leading the top players to branch out and target areas with new revenue opportunities. Although some such as Intel Corp. are venturing as far as the self-driving car industry in their quest for growth, Broadcom Ltd. is keeping its focus on the data center market. Today the chipmaker doubled ...
IBM infuses hybrid cloud features into its storage systems
The hybrid cloud is emerging as a central priority in IBM Corp.’s storage strategy. The company today unveiled a new version of Spectrum Virtualize, the management stack powering most of its storage arrays, that introduces a native cloud replication feature. That means organizations will be able to move snapshots, or read-only copy of the data, ...
Cisco targets data-intensive workloads with new converged systems
Like its fellow hardware suppliers, Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to capitalize on the rapid growth of unstructured data and the resulting rise in enterprise storage requirements. The latest fruit of the company’s efforts is the UCS-S converged infrastructure family, which was unveiled today at its annual partner summit in San Francisco. Cisco says that the ...
Report: Amazon still dominates cloud, but competition hot on its heels
Despite Amazon Web Services’ commanding lead, competition in public cloud computing is tightening, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. The study is the latest in a series of market updates that the analyst firm publishes every quarter after the industry’s top providers post their earnings. Synergy has unsurprisingly found that Amazon.com Inc. ...
NetApp launches new cloud services for managing data
On-premises storage suppliers are scrambling to address the growing amounts of data that their customers are moving to the cloud. The latest big-name player to join the fray is NetApp Inc., which today introduced two new software as a service offerings aimed at easing the management of remote workloads. The first addition is the Cloud Sync Service, ...
Redis, the cache that powers Twitter, gets a machine learning module
The growing number of services that run machine learning algorithms under the hood will now be able to tap the popular open-source database Redis’ capabilities much more easily than before. Typically used to cache applications’ most frequently accessed information, Redis has received a new extension today that brings integration with Spark ML. Organizations that employ ...
New MongoDB release can run across regions and perform graph analytics
After more than 20 million downloads and thousands of enterprise deals, MongoDB Inc. is launching a new release of its namesake documenet store that is aimed at large organizations with broad and complex datasets. Arguably the biggest enhancement in MongoDB 3.4 is support for graph processing, an addition that will enable users to analyze the relationships among ...
CenturyLink to acquire Level 3 for $34B to boost fiber optic network
The balance of power in the business Internet communications market is about to change in a big way. CenturyLink Inc., the third-largest carrier in the U.S., today entered into an agreement to acquire fiber network operator Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion. Excluding debt, the deal is worth about $25 billion in cash and ...
With new cloud hardware design, Microsoft aims to overhaul Open Compute Project
Since its launch five years ago, Facebook Inc.’s Open Compute Project has produced dozens of hardware designs that helped drive billions of dollars in infrastructure savings at the social network and other companies. But Microsoft Corp. still sees room for improvement. The software giant will attempt to nudge the initiative in a new direction this ...