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Robin Systems updates its cloud platform for big data workloads
Container-based cloud infrastructure provider Robin Systems Inc. today added support for a variety of popular enterprise databases and applications to its platform. In addition, the company said its platform can now be deployed on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud, in addition to Amazon Web Services and on-premises hardware. The Robin Cloud Platform is a kind of infrastructure ...
War games: Pentagon slashes Amazon partner’s $950M cloud computing contract
The Pentagon has reportedly slashed a contract worth almost $1 billion that was awarded last month to one of the partners of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit. The Washington Post reported late Monday that the Pentagon has cut the value of the contract with REAN Cloud LLC from its original $950 million to just $65 million, while putting limits on ...
Google Cloud targets the healthcare sector with new services and partnerships
Google LLC on Monday announced the availability of several new products and services for healthcare providers that it hopes can entice them to use its public cloud platform. The new tools include a new Cloud Healthcare application programming interface. The company also announced that more of its cloud products are compliant with the Health Insurance ...
Alibaba Cloud launches its first quantum computing services
Chinese web giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud arm is adding quantum computing to its growing list of services. Alibaba Cloud said it’s partnering with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to host a superconducting cloud computer powered by an 11-quantum-bit processor. That makes it the second-fastest quantum computing service in the world, behind IBM Corp.’s ...
Microsoft to launch Azure Stack for government cloud users in mid-2018
Eyeing the lucrative market for government cloud computing contracts, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled custom editions of its Azure Stack infrastructure and Microsoft 365 product suite for U.S. agencies. Azure Stack, which is an on-premises version of its public cloud infrastructure, was announced back in May 2015 and finally released during last September’s Microsoft Ignite conference. ...
Paxata speeds up data onboarding with new release
Enterprise data preparation company Paxata Inc. is focusing on speed of access with the latest release of its flagship Adaptive Information Platform. The company said the Spring ’18 release of its platform enables business consumers to prepare their data for analysis faster while ensuring its reliability. As a result, the updates pave the way for ...
Chip mergers keep on coming: Microchip Technology gobbles up Microsemi for $8.3B
Consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues to heat up, as Microchip Technology Inc. today agreed to acquire its rival Microsemi Corp. in a deal valued at $8.3 billion. Microchip, which targets a broad range of industries with its offerings, said it will pay $68.78 per share in cash to acquire Microsemi, which is one of the ...
Splunk breezes past earnings estimates and raises guidance, sending shares higher
Big-data company Splunk Inc. shows no sign of slowing down as it marches towards its stated goal of becoming the next $20 billion company in tech. The company once again dazzled investors, breezing past its earnings targets with fiscal fourth-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as ...
Pepperdata launches new troubleshooting tool to boost application performance
Big data infrastructure management company Pepperdata Inc. is launching a new service it said can help boost the performance of individual software applications. The company, which sells software for managing and fine-tuning clusters running on Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and other big-data software frameworks, said its new Application Spotlight tool works by generating recommendations for ...
HVR debuts real-time data integration platform
Big-data company HVR today launched its real-time data integration platform for enterprises that need to leverage information from multiple sources. The company said in its pitch that while most large enterprises already have business intelligence systems in place, many still struggle to access the data they need to make the most of those tools. This ...