Amazon launches new email service called WorkMail
Amazon is once again adding to its business-suite arsenal, this time with the announcement of WorkMail, the company’s new email and calendar service, according to a report by the Wall Street…
View ArticleQuantum computing gets some love with D-Wave taking in $29M
Quantum computing specialist D-Wave Systems now has $29 million in new funding and plans to go on a hiring spree to add to its staff of over 120 people, according to the…
View ArticleMIT has an easier way for multicore chips to use data structures
A group of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have discovered a way for data structures to work more efficiently with mutlicore chips, according to an MIT...
View ArticleVMware continues pushing the hybrid cloud
Virtualization giant VMware is continuing on its hybrid cloud strategy, making several announcements on Monday that are geared toward customers who want access to both public and private cloud...
View ArticleDataStax’s first acquisition is a graph-database company
DataStax, the rising NoSQL database vendor that hawks a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra distributed database, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has acquired graph-database...
View ArticleQumulo lands $40M to bring order to messy data center storage
You can add another startup to the growing list of software-defined storage startups getting some love from investors in recent month. Seattle-based Qumulo plans to announce on Wednesday that it took…
View ArticleAmsterdam Internet Exchange broadens its foothold in the US
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is partnering up with Telx to establish a new internet-access point inside Telx's NYC2 data center, according to an announcement by the companies. The new point…
View ArticleClusterHQ rakes in $12M to make containers play nice with data
Big data startup ClusterHQ sees a lot of opportunity in capitalizing on container and database technology and, with a $12 million series A funding round that the company plans to announce…
View ArticleWith $15M, Sauce Labs wants to make software testing faster
In an agile world where developers are expected to churn out new application features on what can often times be a weekly basis, it can be really hard for engineers to…
View ArticleWhite House chooses VMware’s Tony Scott to be next U.S. CIO
VMware’s Tony Scott has been chosen to become the next U.S. chief information officer, according to a White House announcement on Thursday. Scott will follow in the footsteps of previous U.S…
View ArticleSecurity incubator with ties to Israeli military forms with $18M
A new Israeli-based cyber-security incubator called Team8 plans to announce its launch on Tuesday and is banking that its ties to the Israeli military will give its startups a competitive edge…
View ArticleNode.js is getting its own open-source, independent foundation
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript framework, is getting its own open-source foundation and will no longer be governed by Joyent, the cloud-infrastructure provider plans to announce on...
View ArticleBox’s new service lets users hold on to their own encryption keys
It’s only been a few weeks since Box went public, but the file-sync company with a work-collaboration bent is rolling out a new encryption-key feature to entice big-name companies like the…
View ArticleGoDaddy acquires an interesting Node.js-centric startup
GoDaddy is continuing its effort to upgrade its infrastructure into something more modern by acquiring Nodejitsu, a Node.js-centric platform-as-a-service provider, the web-hosting company announced...
View ArticleHow NASA uses quantum computing for space travel and robotics
Quantum computing is still in its infancy, even though the idea of a quantum computer was developed some thirty years ago. But there are a whole load of pioneering organizations (like…
View ArticleObama’s executive order calls for sharing of security data
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data...
View ArticleDataStax’s first acquisition is a graph-database company
DataStax, the rising NoSQL database vendor that hawks a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra distributed database, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has acquired graph-database...
View ArticleFacebook launches collaborative threat-detection framework
It might be a bit more difficult for hackers to launch coordinated attacks against several different companies at the same time thanks to a new collaborative threat-detection framework by Facebook called…
View ArticleNew Relic boosts revenue growth in first post-IPO earnings
New Relic’s first earnings report since going public last December seemed to please investors as the application-performance and analytics company took in $29 million in revenue in what it considers its…
View ArticleHow NASA uses quantum computing for space travel and robotics
Quantum computing is still in its infancy, even though the idea of a quantum computer was developed some thirty years ago. But there are a whole load of pioneering organizations (like…
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