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Gartner estimates PC sales to drop by almost 10% this year
Makers of personal computers are going to have to brace themselves for a sudden drop in sales, if Gartner Inc.’s latest forecast proves accurate. The analyst firm said in a report today that it believes global PC shipments will decline by 9.5% in 2022 from a year earlier, with consumer demand likely to fall by ...
Micron offers weak earnings outlook, blaming soft demand for PCs and smartphones
Shares of the computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. are trading lower today after it warned that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue will likely fall some distance short of Wall Street’s estimates. Analysts had already been expecting a soft forecast, but the severity of Micron’s miss was likely to have shocked investors. Indeed, the company ...
Cloudera brings Apache Iceberg data lake format to its Data Platform
Big-data analytics provider Cloudera Inc. today announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg within its flagship Cloudera Data Platform, giving customers access to a 100% open table format developed by the Apache Software Foundation. CDP is the product suite that encompasses Cloudera’s flagship data management and analytics services. It’s used by companies to collect business ...
Oracle announces first cloud infrastructure region in Mexico
Database pioneer Oracle Corp. announced the opening of its first cloud infrastructure region in Mexico today, becoming the first major cloud services provider to establish a dedicated cloud region there. The Oracle Querétaro region is the company’s 39th worldwide and will provide local and Central American customers, partners and developers with faster and more seamless ...
Snowplow Analytics raises $40M to grow its behavioral data crunching platform
Snowplow Analytics Ltd., a startup that helps businesses collect and own their customer data, said today it has closed on a new $40 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $55 million. Today’s Series B round was led by the venture capital firm NEA, with participation from existing investors Atlantic Bridge ...
Helios raises $5M to simplify distributed app development with easier troubleshooting
A startup called Heliosphere Ltd. is hoping to make life easier for developers by simplifying troubleshooting during application development, after closing on a $5 million seed funding round. Today’s round was co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC, and saw participation from numerous angel investors too, such as Benny Schnaider, co-founder of Salto Labs and ...
DataStax launches Astra Streaming for continuous processing of real-time data streams
Database company DataStax Inc. is boosting its offerings with the launch of its Astra Streaming data streaming service in general availability. Astra Streaming, built atop the open-source Apache Pulsar project, is designed to help enterprise customers get more value from their real-time data streams by analyzing that information as it’s created. Often considered a rival ...
Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy to make storage easy for remote workers
Cloud file data services firm Nasuni Corp. is expanding its capabilities to remote workers with the acquisition of Vehara Ltd., which is better known as Storage Made Easy. Nasuni announced the acquisition for an undisclosed price today, saying it will buy the entire company and its full product set, adding its staff to its own ...
Intel announces breakthrough in integrated silicon photonics, paving the way for faster networking interconnects
Researchers at Intel Corp. today announced they have made some noteworthy progress in the area of integrated silicon photonics, paving the way for faster networking between processors. Intel Labs claimed that its research represents “the next frontier” in expanding the communications bandwidth between compute processors in data centers and across networks. Silicon photonics is a ...
Google Cloud expands Earth Engine to help businesses and governments boost sustainability
Google Cloud is doing its bit to help big businesses become more sustainable, making its Earth Engine service available to enterprises and governments today. Announced at the Google Cloud Sustainability Summit today, the tool is said to provide access to more than 70 petabytes of “analysis-ready geospatial data.” Google Earth Engine is not a new product. ...