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Five important questions to ask your cloud vendor

Choosing a vendor Businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud in order to deploy applications, scale resources on-demand, cut costs, among other benefits. In order to reap the benefits of the cloud, however, a company must first choose a cloud vendor, which is no small...

CloudBees embraces Kubernetes for enterprise DevOps

CloudBees invests in Kubernetes technology Continuous delivery software services provider CloudBees announced that it is investing in Kubernetes technology across all of its business domains. As part of the initiative, CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise now supports Kubernetes, is working with Kubernetes talent and has become a...

Demand for security drives Palo Alto second quarter revenue growth

Palo Alto Networks announces second quarter earnings Palo Alto Networks released financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2018. The fiscal second quarter 2018 grew 28% year-over-year to $542.4 million, compared with total revenue of $422.6 million for the fiscal second quarter 2017. Palo Alto attributed its...

#TBT: Huawei protests U.S. suspicions; Moto goes for the Xoom gold… this week in 2011

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Mobile data on...

Five cloud market leaders

A growing market The cloud computing market has become increasingly dense as vendors of all sizes compete for customers who have gravitated to the technology as a way to run their business operations. Research firm IDC projects global public cloud spending will reach $203.4 billion...

Samsung CTO leaves to lead Google’s IoT initiatives

Goal is to align consumer and enterprise products to tell "IoT story of Google" Former Samsung CTO Injong Rhee, who joined the Korean tech giant in 2011, announced in a LinkedIn post that he has taken on the new role of entrepreneur-in-residence to lead Alphabet...

Kagan: Why Microsoft Cortana AI is still not well-known

Why is Microsoft Cortana still the great unknown in the world of AI? We’ve all heard the excitement and read countless stories around the continual advancement of artificial intelligence with Apple Siri, Google Home, Amazon Alexa and countless others. Why then can’t Microsoft seem...

Cisco, Microsoft extend partnership to address Azure ExpressRoute challenges

Cisco and Microsoft announce new network practice Cisco announced it is extending its partnership with Microsoft by creating a new network practice that brings Cisco Solution Support to Azure ExpressRoute. The purpose of the partnership is to help customers address technical issues coupled to hybrid architectures....

Alphabet launches security firm Chronicle to advance threat detection

Alphabet unveils new cyber security business Google parent company Alphabet announced it is deploying a new security firm dubbed Chronicle, with the aim of helping businesses recognize and thwart cyber attacks. The company will leverage Google’s computing and storage infrastructure, as well as machine learning...

Google CEO compares AI to electricity and fire

AI research and development requires a "balanced" approach Technology giant Google, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, is engaged in a wide range of research into applications for artificial intelligence (AI) that include machine translation to remove language barriers, improving healthcare by empowering doctors to...

Google to expand cloud infrastructure with undersea cables

Google announces five new cloud computing regions and three submarine cables Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its global infrastructure with the addition of three new submarine fiber-optic cables and five new cloud computing regions to be launched later this year. The five new areas Google...

Kagan: Will users still trust Apple after iPhone slowdown?

There should be quite a bit of embarrassment at Apple in the last couple weeks since they admitted to the iPhone slowdown. But is there? I wrote about this problem several times in recent years. What happens next--as Apple pushes three new iPhone models-- now...

Google brings GPUs to virtual machines with preemptible offering

Google announces Preemptible GPUs Google has launched preemtible GPUs, a programmable logic chip made for display functions, which enable users to use virtual machines with GPUs at a 50% discount. Although, it should be noted the company can shut down the use of the service...

Alibaba ups cloud competition with India data center

Alibaba Cloud announces Indian data center Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced its first India data center based in the city of Mumbai is set to open in January 2018. The company originally announced plans to establish two new data centers in Mumbai,...

It’s all about the device — what telcos aren’t considering to tackle the duopoly (Reader Forum)

  Carriers are late to the mobile advertising game, and they’re not pleased with the score. Not only do Google and Facebook own the field today, but they’ve also leveraged the carriers’ huge investments in wireless infrastructure to increase their advantage. The two companies represent...

Kagan: Why Google Home and Amazon Alexa can invade your privacy

You love the idea of buying an AI and IoT device like Google Home or Amazon Echo for the holiday season. You want to speak and have it deliver a song or weather report or sports score. You’ve seen it. You’ve used it. Sounds...

#TBT: Wheeler steps down; LTE boom in China; Google Things debuts … this week in 2016

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Wheeler steps down...

Weave Cloud for GKE aims to simplify DevOps pipeline

Weaveworks announces free tier Weave Cloud on Google Cloud Platform Weaveworks announced free tier of Weave Cloud for Google Cloud Platform users. The platform is intended to make it easier to develop, deploy and oversee container-based applications. Weave Cloud is a software-as-a-service leveraged by app developers....

#TBT: LTE debuts, FLO TV flops, Google talks mobile … this week in 2010

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! ITU ratifies 4G...

Pay-as-you-go model inspires HPE, Rackspace private cloud

HPE and Rackspace bring pay-as-you-go service to OpenStack Private Cloud Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Rackspace announced they have partnered to provide OpenStack Private Cloud as a pay-as-you-go service. According to the companies, this is the industry’s first pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud. “The launch of OpenStack...

Cisco, VMware deemed SD-WAN market leaders: IHS Markit

Cisco and VMware deepen rivalry with acquisitions Cisco and VMware were deemed the leaders in the software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market in a recent IHS Markit report. According to IHS Markit’s Data Center and Enterprise SDN Hardware and Software Biannual Market Tracker, SD-WAN is a...

Bill Gates investing $80 million in Arizona smart city

New smart city will embrace "high-speed digital networks, data centers" and other technology-focused infrastructure To the west of Phoenix, Ariz., an 25,000-acre plot of land could eventually be home to a greenfield smart city thanks to significant investment from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according...

Interoperability standards solidifying via certified Kubernetes program

CNCF offers Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which supports container management platforms like Kubernetes and Prometheus, premiered its Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program today, which the foundation said ensures Certified Kubernetes products are consisted and portable. As part of...

Google researcher discovers 14 Linux USB vulnerabilities

Google researcher finds 14 Linux USB subsystem security vulnerabilities Google researcher Andrey Konovalov recently discovered 14 Linux USB subsystem security vulnerabilities, all of which can be triggered by a “crafted malicious USB device in case an attacker has physical access to the machine.” Konovalov found the...