On Thursday, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s shares declined -1.06%, and closed at $40.29, as 21Vianet and Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) have extended the commercial operator contract to provide Microsoft’s premier commercial cloud services — Windows Azure and Office 365 in China.
The renewal contract extends the term of the Microsoft China services commercial operator contract by four years until December 31, 2018. Following the renewal contract, 21Vianet will continue to fully operate and further expand Windows Azure and Office 365 service offerings in China to support the anticipated growth during the effective period of the renewal contract.
Ralph Haupter, corporate vice president and CEO for Microsoft Greater China, said: “We are very happy to have extended a successful relationship with 21Vianet, following more than 2 years of close partnership in bringing Microsoft public cloud services to the Chinese market. Both Azure and Office 365 have strong momentum in the market with broad adoption by both local Chinese companies and multinational corporations. Customers value Azure and Office 365’s enterprise-grade benefits such as security, flexibility, reliability, scalability, openness, cost efficiency and deployment speed. We remain firmly committed to the Chinese cloud market, and we believe this extended partnership with 21Vianet will serve as a strong foundation for both companies to further contribute to the development of the cloud computing ecosystem throughout China.”
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The corporation’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML)’s shares dropped -0.97%, and settled at $8.14, during the last trading session on Thursday, as a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, declared the corporation is sampling the industry’s lowest power ARM® Cortex®-M based solution with power consumption down to 35µA/MHz in active mode and 200nA in sleep mode. The ultra-low power SAM L family broadens the Atmel | SMART 32-bit ARM-based MCU portfolio and extends battery life from years to decades, reducing the number of times batteries need to be changed in devices such as fire alarms, healthcare, medical, wearable, and devices placed in rural, agriculture, offshore and other remote areas. The SAM L21 combines ultra-low power with Flash and SRAM that are large enough to run both the application and wireless stacks—three features that are cornerstones of most IoT applications. Sampling now, the SAM L21 comes complete with a development platform counting an Xplained PRO kit, code libraries and Atmel Studio support.
The new family consumes just one-third the power of competing solutions on the market recently and integrates the corporation’s proprietary ultra-low power picoPower® technology. While running the EEMBC® ULPBench™, the industry marker for low power, the SAM L21 achieves a staggering score of 185, the highest publicly-recorded score for any Cortex-M based processor or MCU in the world—and significantly higher than the 167 and 123 scores declared by other vendors. Atmel’s SAM L21 family consumes less than 940nA with full 40kB SRAM retention, real-time clock and calendar and 200nA in the deepest sleep mode.
Atmel’s ultra-low power SAM L21 family is ideal for a number of applications counting the Internet of Things (IoT), consumer, industrial, medical and other battery-powered devices. The low-power innovations in this Atmel | SMART family is achieved through several technological breakthroughs counting:
- Best-in-class active mode current consumption.
- SRAM back biasing to reduce leakage in sleep modes.
- Sleep modes that do not only gate away the clock signal to stop switching consumption, but also remove power from sub domains to fully eliminate leakage.
- SAM L21 peripherals that support Sleepwalking—a technology that enables peripherals to request a clock when needed to wake-up from sleep modes and perform tasks without having to power up the CPU Flash and other support systems.
- Atmel’s proprietary Event System that allows peripherals to work together to solve complex tasks using minimal gates and also the lowest possible power.
- Ultra-low power capacitive touch sensing peripheral that can run in all operating modes and supports wake-up on touch.
Atmel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor integrated circuit products primarily in the United States, Asia, Europe, South Africa, and Central and South America. It operates in four segments: Microcontroller, Nonvolatile Memory, Automotive, and Multi-Market and Other.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF)’s shares dipped -0.92%, and closed at $18.22, as a real estate investment trust (REIT), declared that it has closed the attainment of a €1.1 billion pan-European office portfolio that NorthStar Realty reached an contract to attain in 2014. The Portfolio is comprised of 11 Class A office properties located across gateway cities in seven of Europe’s top markets: London, UK; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; Milan, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Gothenburg, Sweden. The Portfolio is about 186,000 square meters and benefits from a well-diversified mix of market leading tenants.
NorthStar Realty financed the attainment with €530 million of seven year senior mortgages, denominated primarily in the local currencies of the respective properties, with a current weighted average interest rate of about 1.8%.
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., a real estate investment trust (REIT), operates as a commercial real estate (CRE) investment and asset administration corporation in the United States. It focuses on originating, structuring, acquiring, and managing senior and subordinate debt investments secured primarily by commercial, multifamily, and healthcare properties, which comprise first mortgage loans, subordinate mortgage interests, mezzanine loans, credit tenant loans, and other loans, such as preferred equity interests in borrowers who own such properties.
SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK), ended its Thursday’s trading session with -0.87% loss, and closed at $64.57, as a global leader in flash storage solutions, declared immediate availability of the newest version of its FlashSoft® server-side, solid state caching software, which provides several notable performance, usability and compatibility improvements for Windows®, Linux® and VMware® environments. In making declaration, SanDisk also unveiled that its FlashSoft caching software will be accessible in new bundled offerings that package the software with SanDisk’s array of enterprise flash hardware solutions, counting the Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe application accelerators, the Optimus Ascend™ SAS solid-state drive (SSD), and the CloudSpeed Ascend™ SATA SSD. These new offerings provide an easy-to-implement solution that empowers customers to select the flash storage capacity and performance that best meet their data center needs.
“We have built our enterprise flash business to offer the broadest range of storage acceleration solutions to address customers’ changing needs,” said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, Systems and Software Solutions, SanDisk. “The new hardware-software bundles offer the best of both our hardware and software portfolios in a single solution. We are excited to be able to offer customers a complete solution that provides the performance and cost benefits of flash technology, while at the same time making it easier for our channel partners to support their customers.”
SanDisk Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets data storage solutions in the United States and internationally. The corporation offers removable cards, which are used in various applications and consumer devices, counting digital cameras, camcorders, smartphones, tablets, and eReaders under the SanDisk Ultra, SanDisk Extreme, and SanDisk Extreme PRO brands; and embedded products that are used in mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, and other portable and wearable devices, in addition to in automotive and connected home applications under the brand name iNAND.
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