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Matillion unveils new Data Productivity Cloud with low-code user interface
The well-funded British data integration startup Matillion Ltd. today announced the launch of a new, low-code platform that comes complete with its own ecosystem of third-party tools to help enterprises get critical information ready for business in rapid time. Matillion hit the headlines in September 2021 when it closed on a $150 million late-stage funding round that ...
At Ignite 2022, DevOps and ransomware protection are the focus of Microsoft’s security updates
As always, security was at the forefront for Microsoft Corp. today at Ignite 2022, with its extensive range of product updates coming alongside multiple new capabilities aimed at helping companies to provide better safeguards for their data and applications. The main focus of the software and cloud giant’s security updates today was Microsoft Defender for ...
Microsoft’s Edge browser gains shared tabs and more security features
Google Chrome remains far and away the most dominant web browser in use today, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft Corp. from doing everything possible to persuade more people to try its Edge browser instead. In fact, Microsoft continues to add new features to its flagship browser even today. At Microsoft Ignite 2022, it announced new ...
Microsoft adds OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generation tool to Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft Corp. is pushing to become a more important player in artificial intelligence development, leveraging its partnerships and expertise to offer customers tools for building more advanced models. One of the most impressive new offerings comes from Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Falling under the umbrella of Azure Cognitive Services, it provides access to an array ...
Microsoft to offer premium Teams features with more personalization and intelligent feedback
Microsoft Corp. is betting that enterprise users will be willing to pay extra to enjoy a more personalized, intelligent and secure experience within its Teams collaboration software suite. The new Microsoft Teams Premium add-on will provide greater benefits and functionality for webinars, virtual appointments and one-on-one video chats. It provides dozens of extras, such as ...
Microsoft boosts Azure’s big-data cred with flurry of database-related enhancements
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings leading the way. One of the most important new announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2022 is the creation of a new Partner Ecosystem for the Microsoft Intelligent ...
Dell launches operations software platform Project Frontier to scale up edge computing
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a new initiative called Project Frontier aimed at helping enterprises get a better grip on their edge computing deployments. Due to launch next year, Frontier is a software operations platform that’s intended to help enterprises securely manage and orchestrate edge applications and infrastructure at massive scale. Dell is hoping to solve the ...
Oracle revamps VirtualBox virtualization software with cloud integration and 3D app support
Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables users to create, manage and run multiple virtual machines. VMs, as they’re known, are computers whose hardware components are emulated by a host computer. With VirtualBox, ...
Google Cloud expands its confidential computing portfolio to shared workloads as it expands trusted cloud ecosystem
Cloud security is at the forefront of Google Cloud’s innovation at Cloud Next 2022 today, as the company announced a further push into the area of confidential computing while also expanding its “trusted cloud” ecosystem and launching a new initiative around digital sovereignty. First up is the expansion of Google Cloud’s confidential computing portfolio. Google is ...
Google touts open data cloud to unify information from every source
Google Cloud has ambitions to build what it says will be the most open, extensible and powerful data cloud of all, as part of its mission to ensure customers can make use of all of their data, from any source, no matter where it is or what format it’s in. Google announced this “data cloud” ...