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Amazon Web Services opens up its second region in China
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its presence in China with the addition of a second region in the country, bringing its total up to 17 regions globally. Amazon said late Monday that it’s partnering with the cloud services company Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd., which will manage and operate ...
Synaptics debuts built-in fingerprint scanners for mobile displays
Human interface builder Synaptics Corp. is hoping to steal a march on mobile security system designers with the launch of what it says is the world’s first fingerprint sensor that comes built into smartphone displays. The company said its display sensor technology works by scanning user’s fingerprints directly through the glass display of smartphones, doing ...
Kubernetes 1.9 release brings greater stability and storage features
The Kubernetes developer community is capping off a successful year with the release of Kubernetes 1.9, adding important new features that should help to further encourage enterprise adoption. Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestrator management software. It’s used to simplify the deployment and management of software containers, which are a popular tool among developers ...
Iron Mountain snaps up IO Data Center’s U.S. business in $1.3B deal
Document shredding and data management company Iron Mountain Inc. today said it’s planning to buy IO Data Center LLC’s U.S. business for $1.3 billion. Boston-based Iron Mountain has been busy snapping up data center facilities across the globe in recent months. The company in September said it was buying a 210,000-square-foot facility from Denver-based Fortrust. It’s ...
Hybrid cloud growth drives up global server spending
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary Dell EMC remain at the front of the computer server market in terms of revenue and units shipped, but their lead is being threatened by rapid growth from Chinese rivals. That’s according to the latest data from the research firm Gartner Inc., which said today in its latest ...
SoftBank gets into real estate tech with $450M investment in Compass
Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Ltd. has made yet another bet on a promising startup, investing a serious $450 million today in New York City-based real estate technology company Compass. Investing via its $100 billion Vision Fund, SoftBank proclaimed the deal to be the “largest real estate technology investment in U.S. history.” The deal follows a $100 ...
In first post-IPO report, ForeScout sees stock surge on strong earnings
Updated “Internet of things” security company ForeScout Technologies Inc. saw its share price jump in after-hours trading after posting third-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s forecast. In its first earnings report since launching its initial public offering in October, ForeScout reported a net loss of $7.2 million, or $1.17 a share, on revenue of $64.4 ...
Heptio brings its disaster recovery tool Ark to Microsoft’s Azure Container Service
Software container-focused startup Heptio Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. on an open-source technology that provides disaster recovery capabilities for Kubernetes deployments. The company, which was founded by two creators of the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool with the aim of commercializing that project, said it’s collaborating with Microsoft to ensure its Heptio Ark ...
With new automation features, Juniper moves closer to its vision of self-driving networks
Hoping to automate corporate network management, Juniper Networks Inc. today announced three new “Juniper Bots,” software applications designed to automate configuration changes across networks. The new bots are said to be an essential component of Juniper’s “Self-Driving Network” initiative, which envisions the creation of fully autonomous networks that can self-configure, monitor, manage, correct, defend and ...
OpenAI launches software to speed up GPU-powered neural networks
The artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI says it has developed software to build faster and more efficient neural networks that take up less memory on the graphics processing units that power them. OpenAI is a nonprofit research firm founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that wants to promote and develop friendly AI ...