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Public cloud revenues are growing even faster than expected, Gartner says
Companies’ spending on cloud computing services is growing at an even faster rate than expected, according to new analysis from Gartner Inc. Gartner’s latest Worldwide Public Cloud Services Forecast shows that worldwide revenues are set to hit $260 billion by the end of the year, compared with $219.6 billion the year before. That represents year-on-year ...
Despite record profit, Samsung Electronics CEO resigns, citing lack of new growth engines
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. caused a stir Friday morning in South Korea, announcing that Oh-Hyun Kwon, its chairman, chief executive officer and head of its semiconductor operation, will step down from his role at the company by March. The surprise news comes as Samsung delivered a preliminary earnings forecast that suggests it will pull in ...
Google and friends open-source Grafeas API to clean up software supply chains
Google LLC is teaming up with a host of tech players large and small to tackle some of the headaches around software supply chain governance and audits. The internet giant’s long list of friends includes JFrog Ltd., Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Black Duck Software Inc., Twistlock Ltd, Aqua Security Software Ltd. and CoreOS Inc. ...
Intel combats money laundering with new AI adviser tool
Almost two years after Intel Corp. acquired Saffron, the chip maker is launching its first software product based on the cognitive computing startup’s technology. Intel on Wednesday announced the launch of its Saffron antimoney-laundering adviser tool, which it claims is the first product on the market to use “associative memory” artificial intelligence in the financial services ...
Red Hat software and services land on Alibaba Cloud
China’s Alibaba Cloud wants to elevate its relevance in the global public cloud market, and one of the most tried and tested ways of doing that is through teaming up with more established technology partners. With that in mind, Alibaba Cloud, which is the cloud computing arm of eCommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said today that ...
Qualcomm offers EU concessions to gain approval for NXP Semiconductor takeover
Smartphone semiconductor firm and all-round mobile patents king Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is prepared to compromise with European Union regulators in order to seal the deal on its proposed acquisition of Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors NV. The $38 billion acquisition, announced in October 2016, has been beset by delays as Qualcomm has this year been embroiled ...
Western Digital debuts new MAMR disk drive technology to meet data center storage challenges
As the amount of new data being created in the world grows exponentially with each passing year, traditional data center storage systems are rapidly becoming obsolete. A paper published earlier this year by research International Data Corp. forecasts that the amount of data created each year will balloon to a staggering 163 zettabytes by 2025. When one ...
Teradata: AI advances will lead to the rise of the chief AI officer
Database services and business analytics software provider Teradata Corp. is the latest organization to take a long, hard look at the advances in artificial intelligence technology, and what the implications are for enterprises. The company commissioned U.K.-based market research firm Vanson Bourne Ltd. to create its new report, State of Artificial Intelligence for Enterprises, and ...
Intel advances quantum computing efforts with new 17-qubit chip
Two years after Intel Corp. announced it was investing $50 million into quantum computing research in a joint initiative with Dutch partners, the company has delivered its first 17-qubit superconducting test chip to advance those efforts. Intel on Tuesday said it was delivering the chip to QuTech, a research institute it helped set up two years ...
Deloitte gets into the product game with workforce analytics tool LaborWise
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is best known for the information technology consultancy services it provides to enterprises, but now the company is looking to broaden its horizons with the launch of a series of standalone software products tailored to address specific customer pain points. The first of those products is called LaborWise, which Deloitte describes as a ...