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Cloud file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. has gotten off to a solid start in the first quarter of its fiscal 2021, beating expectations on both profit and revenue. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation today of 35 cents …
MariaDB’s cloud database-as-a-service SkySQL gets an availability and scalability boost
MariaDB Corp., the company behind the popular open-source MariaDB database, today announced a major update to its cloud offering today with expanded support for Amazon Web Services Inc. deployments. It’s also making its cloud database more scalable, with enhancements the company says …
IBM Research says it has created the world’s first two-nanometer chip
IBM Corp.’s research division today announced what it says is a key breakthrough in chip design, creating the world’s first semiconductor based on two-nanometer “nanosheet” technology. The company said its new two-nanometer chip blueprint will serve as the foundation of its future …
Xilinx reports record sales ahead of acquisition by AMD
Computer chipmaker Xilinx Inc. beat expectations today as it reported record revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter ahead of its proposed acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. later this year. The company, which makes chips for the aerospace and defense industries as …
Twilio beats earnings target and announces plans for R&D reshuffle
Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc. posted a strong earnings beat and solid guidance today as it announced a reorganization of its product and research and development efforts. The company reported a first-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 5 …
Google launches AI-based Agent Assist for Chat in public preview
Customer service chat agents are getting a helping hand from Google LLC with Agent Assist for Chat, a new tool that provides them with continuous support while dealing with customers. Announced today, the new service is part of Google’s Contact Center AI offering, …
Splunk launches Observability Cloud for multicloud application environments
Data analytics firm Splunk Inc. is revamping the application and infrastructure monitoring experience for customers with the launch of its new Splunk Observability Cloud that helps detect operational issues affecting apps and the environments they run in, as well as providing investigation …
Amazon Web Services moves into application observability with Amazon DevOps Guru
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its application observability offering generally available, about six months after its launch in preview. Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning-powered service that helps to detect operational issues for applications, generating reports and notifications and providing …
Arista Networks easily beats first-quarter earnings and revenue targets
Cloud networking firm Arista Networks Inc. turned in another solid quarterly performance today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue again to send its stock up in after-hours trading. The company reported a first-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.50 …
Sysdig enables runtime detection and incident response in AWS Fargate
DevOps security startup Sysdig Inc. said today it has partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc. to create new runtime detection and incident response tools for AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for running application containers in the cloud. The new offering also contains …