The research firm MTN Consulting said that Alibaba’s cloud computing business is rapidly becoming the group's “most ambitious venture,” as it boosts its overseas investments and refocuses on R&D.

The search and AI-driven analytics company also added new integration with the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

The telecom giants will invest a like amount in DT's MobiledgeX edge computing subsidiary and SK's partner ID Quantique, which uses quantum physics to secure communication transmissions.

Dell Technologies’ venture arm invests about $100 million annually in technology startups, and about a quarter of that goes to security companies.

Huawei persists despite failures in U.S.; T-Mobile launches NB-IoT plan; Verizon acquires threat hunter.

Both cloud subsystems are linked to a "new computing paradigm."

QRNG generates random numbers without any pattern.

You don’t have to build the Millennium Falcon; you just get to play with it.

IBM VP: ‘We’re all in, in the cloud.’

Red Hat has an app for Telefónica; Extreme goes to the cloud.

What can five qubits do? You tell us, IBM says.

Cloud providers make it rain on CrowdStrike.

In this week's roundup: the Cisco/Rackspace theory that just won't die, Midokura's adventures in partner-hunting, and IBM's plan to throw $3B in the general direction of the cloud.

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