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ServiceNow teams up with Accenture to accelerate enterprise automation
ServiceNow Inc. is teaming up with the consulting giant Accenture Plc to expand its push into the enterprise. The company has formed a new business group with Accenture that’s aimed at speeding up customers’ digital transformation and workflow processes. Called the Accenture ServiceNow Business Group, the new unit will receive a “significant multimillion-dollar investment” from both companies ...
Tibco buys Information Builders in its biggest-ever acquisition
Data integration software firm Tibco Software Inc. said today it’s buying rival business analytics firm Information Builders Inc. Tibco didn’t disclose how much it’s paying for Information Builders, but Reuters cited an unnamed source that said the sale values Information Builders at about $1 billion. In any case, Tibco said the acquisition will be the ...
Intel’s stock dives on weakness in data center chip sales
Updated: Intel Corp.’s stock lost almost 10% of its value in after-hours trading today on weakness in its data center business, despite reporting third-quarter results more or less in line with Wall Street’s expectations. The chipmaker reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.11 per share on revenue of $18.3 billion. Wall ...
Nvidia’s A100 GPU sets new performance records in MLPerf benchmarks
Nvidia Corp.’s latest artificial intelligence platforms have once again set new performance records in the latest MLPerf benchmarks. MLPerf is an industry benchmarking group that was set up in May 2018 and is backed by companies that include Amazon.com Inc., Baidu Inc., Facebook Inc., Google LLC, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., as well as Harvard ...
Dell simplifies its ‘as-a-service’ offerings with Project APEX
Dell Technologies Inc. is expanding and unifying its “as-a-service” offerings with the launch of Project APEX, making it easier for customers and partners to access its hyperconverged infrastructure products, personal computers, networking, servers and storage products on-demand. Project APEX, announced late Tuesday night, unifies Dell’s existing Dell Technologies On Demand and Dell Technologies Cloud offerings under ...
Microsoft brings Kubernetes to edge devices with Project Akri
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new open-source project it has created called Akri that aims to make it easier to use Kubernetes with network edge devices. Akri, which stands for “A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the edge” and also means “edge” in Greek, is designed to expose what Microsoft calls lightweight “leaf devices” such as ...
Cybersecurity intelligence firm 4iQ raises $30M in new funding round
Cybersecurity intelligence startup 4iQ Inc. said today it’s planning to ramp up its investment in go-to-market activities after hiring Kailash Ambwani as its new chief executive and landing $30 million in a new round of funding. ForgePoint Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures led the Series C round, with participation from C5 Capital, Adara Ventures and ...
Splunk takes aim at multicloud, machine learning and observability
Splunk Inc. said during its annual Splunk .conf event today that it’s beefing up its suite of data analytics products so customers can accelerate their cloud transformations. Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform is an all-encompassing suite of analytics tools that help enterprises to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, available through its ...
Salesforce adds more apps to Work.com to help people work safely from anywhere
Salesforce.com Inc. said today it’s expanding its suite of Work.com tools that are designed to help companies get back to work safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Work.com was launched in May, providing technology tools and resources for businesses to reopen for work safely and get their employees accustomed to practicing social distancing in the work ...
NetApp updates its data management software for more ‘cloudlike’ experiences
Data storage provider NetApp Inc. is updating its software services to help its customers take better advantage of their hybrid information technology infrastructure. The company said today it’s adding new capabilities to its NetApp ONTAP data management software that provide deeper cloud integration, greater consolidation and continuous data availability, helping to simplify and improve the ...