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With latest Enterprise Manager release, Oracle moves into hybrid cloud monitoring
Oracle Corp. announced a big update to its Oracle Enterprise Manager tool today that delivers what it said are “major breakthroughs” in monitoring and management automation for Oracle environments. Introducing the new release in a blog post, Mughees Minhas, product management vice president of enterprise and cloud manageability at Oracle, explained that Oracle Enterprise Manager ...
NXP’s automotive, industrial and mobile chips all see double-digit growth
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. only just beat expectations on revenue as it delivered its first-quarter financial results today. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.31 per share on revenue of $2.567 billion, up 27% from one year ago. Wall Street had been looking for a profit of $2.21 ...
Telcos bet on Red Hat OpenShift for network modernization
Open-source hybrid cloud software giant Red Hat Inc. is spending much of the first day of its annual Red Hat Summit event talking about the progress it has made with customers — especially in the telecommunications industry, where it’s helping modernize a number of communications service provider’s networks. Red Hat said today that its open-source hybrid ...
Pizza delivery firm Papa John’s commits to using more of Google’s cloud
Google LLC sealed another big cloud customer contract today with the pizza delivery firm Papa John’s International Inc. signing a new, multiyear deal to use Google Cloud’s infrastructure. Papa John’s said the partnership with Google is all about expanding its digital leadership and data cloud strategy, and it will work with it to expand the ...
Unsupervised, a startup that uses AI to automate data analytics, raises $35M
Self-described automated analytics startup Unsupervised Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a new round of funding led by Cathay Innovation and SignalFire. Previous investors Coatue, Eniac Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners and Elad Gil also participated in the Series B round, which brings Unsupervised’s total amount raised to more than $55 million following ...
Strong PC chip sales help Intel beat forecasts, but data center revenue tanks
Chipmaking giant Intel Corp. beat market expectations on earnings and revenue today thanks to strong sales of personal computer chips as it delivered its first quarterly financial results under new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger. The company’s first-quarter sales were essentially flat, however, and its profit fell from the same period one year ago, sending its ...
Canonical debuts new Ubuntu with Active Directory integration, support for SQL Server and Flutter
Ubuntu developer Canonical Ltd. debuted an important new release of its flagship operating system today, adding key capabilities such as Microsoft Active Directory integration, use of the Wayland display protocol by default and a new software development kit for the Flutter framework. The Ubuntu distro is one of the most popular Linux operating systems. It ...
Google’s Document AI service reaches general availability with more human input
Google LLC announced today that its Document AI service, which helps extract information contained in digital and printed documents using machine learning, is now generally available on Google Cloud. Announced in preview in November, the DocAI platform is powered by underlying artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision and natural language processing. It also leverages ...
Qualtrics’ stock jumps on strong earnings and full-year outlook
Experience management firm Qualtrics International Inc. today reported first-quarter revenue that beat analyst’s expectations, together with a surprise profit instead of an expected loss. That came as the company signaled that its immediate prospects are looking good too, posting a stronger-than-expected outlook for the next quarter and raising its full-year outlook. The company, which only ...
Dish uses Amazon’s cloud infrastructure to build its 5G Open Radio Access Network
Dish Network LLC said today it’s working with Amazon Web Services Inc. to create what it claims will be the world’s first entirely cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network, or O-RAN. Dish, which is best known for its satellite TV services, said it will use Amazon’s fully-managed AWS Outposts service together with AWS Local Zones ...