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HP Inc. To Acquire HyperX
HP Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company. The acquisition supports HP’s strategy to drive growth in its Personal Systems business, where gaming and peripherals are attractive segments. HyperX’s award-winning product portfolio spans a range of gaming peripherals, including headsets, keyboards, mice, mouse pads, USB microphones, and …
Siemens, IBM, Red Hat Launch Hybrid Cloud Initiative To Increase Real-time Value Of Industrial IoT Data
Siemens, IBM and Red Hat announced a new collaboration that will use a hybrid cloud designed to deliver an open, flexible and more secure solution for manufacturers and plant operators to drive real-time value from operational data. In one month, a single manufacturing site can generate more than 2,200 terabytes of data according to a …
DigitalOcean Launches Premium Droplets
DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, announced new Premium Droplets plans with processors from Intel and AMD. The new Droplet types expand DigitalOcean’s Basic Droplet tier to offer faster performance and give customers the flexibility to choose the underlying hardware for their workloads. “As our customers grow their businesses and test ideas with …
Partnering With Intel To Accelerate Cloud-Native 5G
Communications service providers are increasingly adopting cloud-native technologies to harness the potential of 5G not only as a connectivity solution, but also as a business services platform for delivering applications to the network edge. We announced our telecommunications industry strategy last year to help Communication Service Providers address the growing demands of enterprise customers to …
Verizon expands Its Customer Experience And Contact Center Portfolio With Genesys Cloud
As contact centers are relying on digital, remote-first operations, Verizon Business announced the addition of Genesys Cloud, as part of the company’s global customer experience and contact center offerings. The solution, a cloud-based Contact Center as a Service from Genesys®, offers businesses the ability to deliver brand-defining customer experiences (CX) on an end-to-end, cloud-based platform …
Technology And Media Entities Join Forces To Create Standards Group Aimed At Building Trust In Online Content
A group of influential technology and media companies has partnered to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a Joint Development Foundation project established to address the prevalence of disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud through developing technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content. Founding members Adobe, …
The Linux Foundation And IBM Announce New Open Source Projects to Promote Racial Justice
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced it will host seven projects from Call for Code for Racial Justice, an initiative driven by IBM and Creator David Clark Cause to urge the global developer ecosystem and open source community to contribute to solutions that can help confront racial inequalities. …
IBM Commits To Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2030
IBM announced that it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to further its decades-long work to address the global climate crisis. The company will accomplish this goal by prioritizing actual reductions in its emissions, energy efficiency efforts and increased clean energy use across the more than 175 countries where it operates. “I …
What Is Apdex And How Can It Help Monitor App Health?
VMware recently announced that Apdex is now available in Tanzu Observability by Wavefront. Users can access it by selecting Apdex when viewing the application status page. What is Apdex? Apdex is a “numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications,” according to the Apdex Alliance website. Similar to how request, error, and …
Rackspace Technology And HiMed Improve Patient Care With Cloud-Based Record Keeping
Rackspace Technology™, a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, announced the results and solution details of its successful collaboration with HiMed Solutions to implement cloud-based record keeping for patients. The medical records system allows doctors and healthcare workers in Colombia to make better decisions with quick, reliable and secure access to patient records, all in …