IBM and Red Hat have reached an agreement under which Big Blue will acquire open source cloud software provider Red Hat for approximately $34 billion. In a joint statement, IBM chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty called the acquisition of Red Hat a “game-changer” for the cloud market. According to Big Blue, the market is “proprietary” […]

Western Digital has launched the world’s first 15TB SMR hard drive, designed for use with hyperscale cloud and data centre workloads. The company suggested it could be used to power smart city data centres where huge amounts of data, such as video surveillance and legacy information, needs to be stored for regulatory compliance. SMR (Shingle […]

The growing popularity of cloud technologies has resulted in record-breaking financial results for both Google and Intel in this round of financial results. Intel overall earnings were up 19% year-on-year, the company revealed, with its data centre operation raking in $6.14 billion in revenue, surpassing its estimates of $5.89 billion and deserving of its second-place […]

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant could soon be popping up on office printers and photocopiers. The firm has announced an extension to its existing Alexa Voice Service Device SDK that would enable third-party manufacturers to add the voice assistant to their business devices. The SDK would enable devices to sport Alexa and be managed as shared […]

Amazon’s AWS cloud business increased by 46% year-on-year in its third financial quarter. It made revenues of $6.68 billion in the quarter, compared with the average estimate of $6.71 billion. AWS also netted over $2 billion in profit. Net sales for AWS for the last 12 months were $23.3 billion, and operating income for AWS […]

Cloud has once again been a big earner for Microsoft, with the company posting Azure revenue growth of 76% over the last quarter. Server products and cloud services have grown by 28%, while its “intelligent cloud” division has increased revenues by a quarter compared to the second quarter of 2018. However, the growth of Microsoft’s […]

Security researchers have discovered a flaw in WebEx’s WebexUpdateService that allows anyone with a login to the Windows system where Cisco’s client software is installed to run system-level code remotely. The vulnerability is “pretty unique” as it is “a remote vulnerability in a client application that doesn’t even listen on a port”, according to a blog […]

Check Point has acquired Israeli security firm Dome9 to boost the company’s cloud security portfolio, helping its customers secure their Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud multi-cloud environments. Although Check Point already offers a range of cloud security solutions, taking on Dome9’s tech as well means it can bolster its Infinity architecture, designed for public […]

Securing multiple clouds can be very complex. What’s needed is an integrated approach that is dynamic and flexible, and able to keep pace with cloud workloads and applications as they expand. The agility and benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. Forrester predicts that the total global public cloud market will be $178 billion in 2018, […]

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