It is being reported that Broadcom will buy Brocade Communications. The motivation for the deal, it is being said, is that Broadcom wants Brocade’s $1.5 billion annual revenue fibre channel and storage business. Broadcom owns fibre channel specialist Emulex and acquiring Brocade’s fibre business would give it a more integrated product offering for data centre …

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Cadence, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University are launching a MEMS design contest to encourage the development of innovative MEMS and mixed-signal designs. The first-prize winner will receive a $5000 cash award, have their design manufactured at X-FAB’s wafer production facilities and get a free one-year license of Coventor’s MEMS design software. The second and third …

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In today’s LED business roundup, it’s “not so fast” on the LEDvance to China sale — while Silvair gets showered with dollars, Philips Lighting adds licensees, and IoT partnerships flourish.

The new Wacoal Holdings building in Kyoto is lit with a mesh of white and color packaged LEDs that are based on a violet emitter or pump, and red, green, and blue phosphors.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables you to track your bounce, complaint, sent, and rejected email metrics with fine-grained granularity. Previously, Amazon SES provided your email sending metrics at an AWS account level. Now, you can access your metrics based on characteristics you define. For example, you can track metrics for a particular email campaign, a particular subset of recipients, or whatever aspect of email sending is important to your business operations and analytics. You can choose to publish the metrics to either Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon Kinesis Firehose.

We are pleased to announce we have added HP Data Protector 9.07 to the AWS Storage Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL) compatibility list. You can backup and archive from HP Data Protector using Gateway-VTL to scalable, cost-effective, secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports major version upgrade from 11g to 12c.

West Virginia American Water to pay up to $126 million, Eastman Chemical $25 million.

Grants will fund 85 projects that will improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural areas in 39 states and American Samoa. 

Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWPC) has issued a request for qualifications for developers wanting to compete for Oman’s first privately owned water project, reports Zawya.