HPE acquires SD-WAN player Silver Peak Systems
HPE acquires the vendor of SD-WAN solutions Silver Peak Systems for 925 million dollars (814 million euros). Silver Peak will be merged with HPE Aruba.
The acquisition provides HPE with a specialist that helps customers achieve better WAN networks. Silver Peak's SD-WAN technology enables custome...
‘Removing Huawei equipment from British networks will cost billions’
British telecom providers BT and Vodafone warn that removing Huawei equipment from their networks will take at least five years. Besides, the costs to remove all the equipment would take billions of pounds.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the British government is drafting plans to remo...
‘More financial institutions focus on the shift to cloud’
The shift to the cloud is of the utmost importance for financial institutions, as part of the digital transformation, according to research by F5.
The Financial Services edition of the 2020 State Of Application Services survey by F5 is published. The edition shows that six out of ten companies (...
IBM expands storage portfolio to support AI
IBM is expanding its storage portfolio to help enterprises build an optimized AI infrastructure. The new products should make it easier for enterprises to implement AI in their infrastructure.
The new Elastic Storage System 5000 (ESS 5000) is a software-defined storage solution designed for the ...
Netgear expands wifi 6 mesh portfolio with Orbi AX4200
Network specialist Netgear introduces a new system to its Orbi wifi 6 mesh portfolio, the Orbi AX4200 (RBK572/573). This model should give consumers and small businesses better wifi coverage at a lower price.
Netgear's Orbi wifi 6 AX4200 mesh systems are designed to give homes and small business...
Nvidia’s latest A100 GPU debuts on Google Cloud
The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance series on Google Cloud.
The company claims that the new chip, built using Nvidia's new Ampere architecture, is the most powerful GPU the company has ever produced. Designed primari...
AWS Outposts now also supports AWS Relational Database Service
AWS Outposts, the hybrid cloud platform of Amazon, now also supports AWS Relational Database Service. This allows customers to create RDS database instances in their own on-premise data centers.
By supporting the database instances in the on-premises environment, the hybrid cloud platform gets a...
VMware acquires True Visibility Suite from Blue Medora
VMware continues acquiring small specialized technology companies. The virtualiSation giant has now acquired the technology and staff of Blue Medora's True Visibility Suite.
VMware aims to improve the self-driving operations capabilities of its own AI-based vRealize Operations product with this ...
NVidia expands virtual GPU support to enhance remote work
NVidia released its most recent version of virtual GPU software. It also unveiled new visualisation partners which will be helpful to the increasing number of professionals working remotely due to lockdown. With updated features to help end-users and IT administrators, the improved software could c...
AWS launches aerospace unit to compete for government space deals
Amazon Web Service said they are stepping up their push into the space sector by establishing a new business unit named Aerospace and Satellite Solutions. The unit is slated to work with both private sector and government customers to offer assistance with projects like satellite launches.
From ...
Huawei officially listed as U.S. national security threat
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially listed Chinese company Huawei as a "national security threat". As a result, U.S. companies are no longer allowed to do business with the telecom company.
Huawei and ZTE (also Chinese) have been listed as national security threa...
‘Amazon pays $1.2 billion for autonomous vehicle startup Zoox’
Amazon reported last week that it is buying Zoox. The company is an autonomous vehicle startup backed by a reported $1 billion in venture capital. Zoox was valued at $3.2 billion, after a recent round of funding. Amazon is paying $1.2 for the startup.
Even with the valuation discount, it is repo...