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Rackspace teams up with HPE to offer pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud
Cloud services company Rackspace Inc. is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to deliver what they say is the first pay-per-use version of OpenStack. Open Stack is an open source platform for creating and managing large collections of virtual private servers in a cloud computing environment. The new offering will be delivered as a managed service, ...
Here’s how enterprises will waste $10 billion on cloud spending next year
Enterprise cloud management company RightScale Inc. has come up with the alarming forecast that almost $10 billion in cloud spending will be wasted by companies in the next year. The biggest problem is the enormously complex way in which public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. bill customers for their ...
IBM unveils new quantum processors to power its commercial Q Systems
In another sign of the ascendance of quantum computing, IBM Corp. says it’s beefing up the power of its online commercial quantum system, IBM Q, which will be made available to early-access customers later this year. The company today announced two quantum processor upgrades, including a new 20-qubit processor and a working prototype of a ...
Microsoft open-sources effort to build hardware that protects firmware from hackers
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a blueprint for special hardware that will be able to secure server firmware from hackers, and it wants the open-source community to help it out. The software giant said the new chip and associated hardware will be able to protect firmware from some of the most dangerous threats around, including “malicious ...
Uber teams up with NASA to make its flying taxi dream a reality
Uber Technologies Inc.’s dream of providing a flying taxi service might not be all that farfetched. Today the company announced it’s teaming up with NASA to develop the technology and systems they need to take to the skies. The controversial ride-hailing firm, which never ceases to amaze with its combination of constant scandals and revolutionary ideas, said ...
Twilio shares rally as it surpasses $100M in quarterly revenue for the first time
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. made investors happy Thursday after posting third-quarter earnings results that blew past Wall Street analysts’ forecasts. The company, which builds web service application programming interfaces for software developers to make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages in an automated fashion, surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenues for the first time in its ...
Container monitoring system Prometheus gets a major update
The Prometheus project, an open-source monitoring solution for application containers, has just received a major update that brings greater stability and improved performance to the platform. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the project, said the main updates in Prometheus 2.0 include a more efficient time-series database storage format, better handling of “stale” data ...
Leanplum raises $47M to help put the relationship back into marketing
Mobile marketing platform provider Leanplum Inc. said today it has just wrapped up a $47 million late-stage round of financing that it will use to enhance its products and further its international expansion. The Series D round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ...
IBM takes steps to help EU customers comply with GDPR rules
IBM Corp. says it’s giving its Frankfurt-based cloud data center in Germany a facelift in order to provide customers with greater control over where their data lives, who has access to it and what they can do with this access. The idea is to help IBM’s cloud customers adhere to the new General Data Protection ...
After data leaks, Amazon beefs up security and encryption for its S3 cloud storage
In the wake of several incidents that saw Amazon Web Services Inc. customers leave important data unsecured on the internet, the cloud computing giant today announced no less than five new security features to help prevent them. The announcement comes after high-profile companies including Accenture Plc., Verizon Communications Inc. and the U.S. military contractor TigerSwan, among ...