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Nutanix beefs up its disaster recovery capabilities
Data center company Nutanix Inc. today added more advanced disaster recovery capabilities to its hyperconverged infrastructure software and AHV hypervisor to help customers better protect their most important applications. The updates, which include a new advanced automation capability for recovering apps and their data, are meant to help customers ensure continuity of business operations should disaster ...
RPA firm UiPath debuts new hyperautomation platform
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. today announced a major update to its platform that it says will enable true “hyperautomation” for its enterprise customers. Having secured more than a billion dollars in venture capital funding, UiPath is one of the darlings of the booming RPA market. It’s an emerging subset of artificial intelligence that ...
How Amazon Web Services is enabling remote work during COVID-19
Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided an update on some of the ways in which its public cloud computing platform is being used by customers, including governments, educational institutions and businesses to implement more secure and reliable work-from-home solutions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The company has seen a big surge in demand for its cloud ...
Cloud monitoring analytics firm Datadog delivers strong earnings
Cloud-based monitoring analytics provider Datadog Inc. is riding high today after beating Wall Street’s targets in its first-quarter earnings. The company also delivered better-than-expected guidance, sending its stock up 3% in after-hours trading. That followed a nearly 8% rise in the regular session. The New York-based company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock ...
Trump administration urges Intel, TMSC to expand U.S. chip production
President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to convince major silicon chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. to set up new manufacturing operations in the United States to help reduce its reliance on Asia for some of its most critical technology. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported Sunday that officials ...
Eric Schmidt bows out of Google after 19 years
Former Google LLC Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly quit the company for good after stepping down from his role as a technical adviser in February, according to a report in CNET Saturday that cited an unnamed source. The departure of Schmidt (pictured) marks the end of an era for a ...
Cloudflare stock tumbles on bigger loss despite strong early gains
Network security firm Cloudflare Inc. saw its stock tumble in after-hours trading Thursday, wiping out some impressive gains it made earlier in the day. The fall came after it posted a wider loss in the quarter compared with the same period one year ago, even though it topped Wall Street’s estimates. Cloudflare’s shares were down almost ...
Dropbox beats expectations as it records its first quarterly profit
Cloud storage company Dropbox Inc.’s stock rose more than 3% late today after it reported first-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company said its performance was boosted by an increase in users and engagement since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The provider of file-sharing services reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
AWS files another protest over JEDI cloud computing contract award
Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its protest of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract award, asking the U.S. Department of Defense for more clarity around corrective action it has proposed taking. The company filed a second, concurrent bid protest directly with the DOD Monday, though it hasn’t been made public yet. The ...
Box adds new features for remote workers
Cloud content management and collaboration company Box Inc. is revamping its product to help remote workers at a time when more people than ever are working from home. The company today announced an “All-New Box experience” that makes it easier for people to organize their files, annotate documents in preview mode and collaborate with their ...