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Microsoft debuts Azure VMware Solution in preview
Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of its long-awaited Azure VMware Solution, which makes it cheaper and easier for customers to migrate VMware applications on-premises in data centers to the company’s public cloud infrastructure platform. Jason Zander, executive vice president for Azure, said the launch of the service was an “amazing milestone” for both companies ...
Iguazio teams up with NetApp to accelerate AI app deployment
Data science company Iguazio Systems Ltd. today announced it’s joining with data storage firm NetApp Inc. to help customers develop and deploy artificial intelligence-based applications on the latter’s ONTAP AI framework. Iguazio sells a “serverless” data platform-as-a-service product that creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the network edge as well as on public clouds and ...
Updated: Intel buys public transit navigation app Moovit for $900M
Updated Monday with announcement: Intel Corp. today announced it’s buying Israeli startup Moovit Inc., which has built a popular public transit app of the same name, for about $900 million, or $840 million net of an Intel Capital equity gain. “Intel’s purpose is to create world-changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on ...
OpenAI debuts Jukebox, a machine learning framework that creates its own music
Artificial intelligence research outfit OpenAI Inc. has published a new machine learning framework that can generate its own music after being trained on raw audio. The new tool is called Jukebox, and the results are pretty impressive. Although the songs it made don’t quite sound like the real thing, they’re very close approximations to the ...
Atlassian tops earnings target and outlines plan to weather the coronavirus but stock falls
Enterprise productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. delivered better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results today, but the company’s stock lost almost 5% of its value in after-hours trading after it issued a light outlook for the next quarter. Atlassian, which sells project management and collaboration software for developers and engineers, including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket, reported a profit ...
Apple beats earnings targets but iPhone sales slump
Apple Inc. surprised Wall Street today by delivering better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results despite seeing its overall growth slow as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to the closure of many of its retail stores around the world. Officials declined to offer any guidance for the third quarter, however, and that may have contributed ...
Helm Kubernetes package manager becomes the latest CNCF project to graduate
The Helm application package manager for Kubernetes today became the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to achieve graduation status. It’s an important milestone that demonstrates not only thriving adoption, but also a strong commitment to community, sustainability and inclusivity, the CNCF said. The CNCF is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to ...
ServiceNow beats earnings estimate and offers confident long-term outlook
Information technology services management company ServiceNow Inc. today posted solid first-quarter earnings that comfortably beat expectations. The company further impressed investors when it said it’s confident that it will top $10 billion in annual revenue for the first time this year despite the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. ServiceNow reported a first-quarter profit before certain ...
Qualcomm beats earnings forecast despite lower demand for smartphone chips
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. sprung a surprise today, posting second-quarter results that easily beat expectations despite seeing much lower demand for smartphone chips because of the coronavirus pandemic. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 88 cents per share on revenue of $5.2 billion. That was well ahead of Wall Street’s ...
Google Cloud adds a new region in Las Vegas
Google LLC’s public cloud infrastructure platform is expanding its reach with the availability of a new region in Las Vegas. The new region announced today is Google’s fourth in the western United States and seventh nationwide. “Now open to Google Cloud customers, the Las Vegas region provides you with the speed and availability you need ...