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Report: Struggling database provider Basho said to be looking for a buyer
Basho Technologies Inc., the company that develops the popular Riak NoSQL database, is looking to sell itself after seeing its growth stall, according to reports. The Register cites a “source close to Basho” as saying that the company is “working on a sales process,” without providing any details on potential buyers. Basho began life back ...
Microsoft stops fixing older Windows versions on newer PCs
Microsoft Corp. will no longer be providing software updates to anyone running an older version of Windows even on computers powered by the latest Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. microprocessors. The company has reportedly stopped serving up software fixes to PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on Intel’s new Kaby Lake chips and ...
Application health monitoring platform PagerDuty lands $43.8M funding
Digital operations management platform provider PagerDuty Inc. has just landed a $43.8 Million Series C funding round led by venture capital firm Accel, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal. PagerDuty claims its platform has revolutionized the way information technology teams are notified of incidents regarding their ...
Western Digital moves to block Toshiba’s chip business sale
Toshiba Corp.’s plans to sell its semiconductor business have hit a roadblock, as rival storage firm Western Digital Corp. has said any sale would contravene the terms of their joint venture. Toshiba has set up its semiconductor business as a separate company so it can easily be sold off, to make up for losses incurred ...
Google tests a collaborative approach to machine learning
Google Inc. is plotting to speed up machine learning with a new “federated learning” approach that sees training data spread across millions of individual Android devices. The approach is different from traditional machine learning techniques, where datasets are distributed across multiple cloud servers. It enables machine learning models to be trained from actual users’ interactions with ...
Amazon Web Services targets MongoDB users for database migration
Public cloud leader Amazon Web Services is making another move aimed at winning over some of its rival’s customers. The Amazon.com Inc. unit on Monday extended its Database Migration Service with support for MongoDB, the open-source NoSQL database that’s proved to be a massive hit with developers. Amazon said that its DMS service now supports migration ...
The biggest cloud computing leaders are devouring the market
The biggest cloud service providers such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are quickly taking over the business. Hyperscale cloud service operators’ market share is rapidly growing in several key cloud service markets, according to new data published by Synergy Research Group. Not surprisingly, in turn those cloud service markets themselves are also growing at ...
VMware turbocharges vSAN storage platform with Intel’s speedy new flash memory
Much of the recent focus in the storage business has been on hyperconverged infrastructure, which can help data center operators reduce costs while simultaneously boosting performance. Other features, including better management tools and baked-in security, are also fast becoming a must-have. VMware Inc. on Tuesday took the wraps off a new update for its vSAN ...
Qualcomm hits back at Apple in patent licensing dispute
Qualcomm Inc. is taking the gloves off over its patent spat with Apple Inc. On Monday, the chipmaker responded to an Apple lawsuit over its patent licensing practices with a 134-page redacted filing that included some counterclaims of its own, such as a breach of contract. Qualcomm also asked for an unspecified amount in damages ...
Report: Foxconn leads bidders for Toshiba’s chip business with $27B offer
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., commonly known as Foxconn, is said to be readying a massive $26.93 billion bid to acquire Toshiba Corp.’s semiconductor business. The Wall Street Journal first reported news of the potential bid, saying that the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer faces bidding competition from companies including SK Hynix Inc., Broadcom Ltd. and Silver ...