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Snowflake’s stock falls on mixed first-quarter financial results
Shares of Snowflake Inc. fell in after-hours trading today after the cloud data warehouse darling posted a wider-than-expected loss in the three months just gone. The company reported a fiscal first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 70 cents per share on revenue of $228.9 million, up 110% from a year ago. The ...
New Relic enhances Kubernetes observability with open-source Pixie software
Observability platform provider New Relic Inc. is beefing up its product with a new “Kubernetes experience” that it says will enable instant insights into the software container orchestration system without needing to update any code or sample data first. The company also announced enhancements around its error tracking, network monitoring and programmability capabilities, plus two ...
Google launches preview of ‘integrated data cloud’ to help unify multicloud data
Google LLC is doubling down on big data at its inaugural Data Cloud Summit today with the launch of three new cloud services that it says will combine to create an “integrated data cloud” that spans multicloud environments, helping enterprises become more data-driven. The new services include Dataplex for intelligent data management, Analytics Hub, which ...
Microsoft debuts tools to build more collaborative apps in Teams – and hints at big Windows change
Microsoft Corp. announced new features and tools for developers to integrate services within its Teams collaboration platform today as it kicked off its virtual Build 2021 developer conference. The software and cloud giant also provided a brief glimpse of what’s coming “very soon” in its iconic Windows software. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella revealed a major update ...
Zscaler’s stock soars on solid earnings beat and acquisition news
A solid earnings beat, strong guidance for the next quarter and full year, and news of a strategic acquisition was enough to send cybersecurity firm Zscaler Inc.’s stock soaring today, with gains of more than 8% in late trading. The company announced it’s planning to buy Indian “active defense” technology startup Smokescreen Technologies Ltd. shortly ...
Open-source data pipeline startup Airbyte raises $26M round
Open-source data integration platform startup Airbyte got the backing of several prominent investors in a $26 million round of funding announced today. Benchmark led the Series A round, which also saw the participation of 8VC, Accel, SV Angel, and Ycombinator, as well as private individuals who include MongoDB Inc. Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria, Elastic N.V. co-founder ...
Oracle debuts its first Arm-based cloud instances
Oracle Corp. is giving customers more choice and flexibility with the launch of its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. The new offering, called OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is designed to power both general-purpose and cloud-native workloads that demand high performance at more manageable costs, Oracle said today. It’s based ...
Commvault expands Metallic to Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Cloud
Data management and backup provider Commvault Systems Inc. is celebrating its 25th anniversary today by expanding its Metallic software-as-a-service backup and recovery portfolio to cover all three of Microsoft Corp.’s enterprise cloud services. In addition, it announced a new Intelligent Data Services Platform for managing, securing, analyzing and ensuring data meets customer’s governance requirements. Metallic ...
Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions will hit record high next year
Consolidation in the technology business is expected to reach new highs in 2022, according to a report by Gartner Inc. The analyst firm said economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is the driving force of this consolidation, compelling enterprises to make some “tough decisions” about whether to merge or acquire other organizations. The report ...
Facebook system can train AI models to recognize speech without transcribed audio data
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence team today revealed a way to build speech recognition systems without using any transcribed audio data to train them. Speech recognition is one of the most common types of AI, widely used in lots of popular applications. Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, for example, use speech recognition to understand their user’s ...