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Vodafone, IBM Launch $550 Million Multi-Cloud Joint Venture
The new organization, co-led by Vodafone and IBM, will provide European companies with technologies that integrate and manage multiple clouds.
IBM, Juniper Ink $325 Million Hybrid-Cloud Deal
The deal will use IBM Watson’s cognitive capabilities to help with the operation of Juniper’s cloud and data center environments.
Veeam Lands $500M to ‘Dominate Multi-Cloud Data Management’
The investment comes on the heels of Veeam competitor Rubrik closing a $261 million funding round at a $3.3 billion valuation. And it’s yet another signal that the data management sector is hot.
HPE, Datera Join Forces on Scale-Out, Software-Defined Storage
The partnership gives HPE customers scale-out block and object storage. And it also moves Datera’s platform into more enterprise data centers.
DriveScale Says Composable Is the Answer to Data-Intensive Compute
DriveScale’s founders wanted to solve the problem of infrastructure over-provisioning. The technology wasn’t called composable infrastructure back then.
Huawei’s New Data Center Switch Uses Embedded AI Chip
The product debut comes as the embattled Chinese company faces mounting political troubles and additional bans in the U.S. and Europe.
Huawei’s Got 99 Problems and Futurewei’s One
And Poland arrested a Chinese Huawei employee and charged him with spying for Beijing.
Cloud Security Acquisitions, OneLogin $100M Funding Round Preview What’s In Store
The opening days of 2019 also saw Sophos purchase cloud security startup Avid Secure and Akamai Technologies reach a deal to acquire Janrain.
Equinix CEO: Interconnection Biz Booming, Edge Remains ‘Real, Strategic Question’
Equinix’s software-defined interconnection platform now has 13,000 virtual connections, according to CEO Charles Meyers.
Verizon 5G Home’s Relationship Status With Cable? It’s Complicated
Verizon wants to be cable operators’ “best long term partner,” but its 5G Home service targets these same companies.
Intel, Facebook Develop New AI Chips
The chip giant also unveiled 10nm silicon for data center servers and 5G wireless access base stations and at a CES 2019 news conference.
Consensys and AMD Build Blockchain-Based Cloud Infrastructure
The new company, called W3bcloud, is developing data center products to support blockchain-based workloads and applications.
Former Red Hat CEO Backs Tidelift’s $25M Series B
The startup's business model works like this: companies pay Tidelift a subscription, and in return they receive support for the open source projects they use from the developers who created and maintain these projects.
IoT Spending to Hit $745 Billion in 2019, IDC Says
IoT software spending will total $154 billion in 2019 and see the fastest growth over the forecast period with a CAGR of 16.6 percent.
Alphabet’s Playbook Includes Pumping Billions Into Networking, AI
Alphabet’s share of network and IT capex beat the two top cloud providers Amazon and Microsoft for the 12-month period ending Q3 2018.
Ryuk Ransomware Takes Down Cloud Hosting Provider’s Systems
Threat researchers linked Ryuk to the North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group believed to be behind the WannaCry attack.
Dell Runs the Gauntlet to Achieve Its Goal of Going Public
It took Michael Dell 12 months of battling shareholders — and ultimately paying them about $14 billion — to once again take his company public.
Air Bud Saves Money, Scores Slam Dunk With Cohesity
When Air Bud’s legacy storage system gave out, leaving the film company with no way to backup or restore files, “it was panic,” said Technical Director Tyson Clark.
IBM Will Use Samsung’s 7nm Tech for Data Center and Cloud Servers
The news comes as other manufactures including TSMC race to bring their next-gen silicon to market — and challenge Intel’s long-standing chip dominance in the data center.
Composable Infrastructure Players to Watch in 2019
The technology is still in its infancy with only a handful of vendors shipping products. We expect to see more action in 2019.