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The Linux Foundation said today it’s stepping up its efforts to tackle climate change with the launch of the LF Climate Finance Foundation. The initiative has been established to provide artificial intelligence-based, open source analytics and data to academia, banks, companies, insurers, …
Diamanti embraces commodity hardware with container software update
Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Diamanti Inc. said today that it has completed its transition to a software-focused company with the release of Diamanti Spektra 3.0, a software platform that’s designed to enable container-based hybrid clouds. Diamanti sells hardware and software that enables companies …
Google debuts new AI features and tools to advance MLOps
Google LLC announced today a raft of artificial intelligence-related updates as part of Google Cloud Next: OnAir, a nine-week series of livestream events that runs through Sept. 15. The focus of today’s updates is all about machine learning and, in particular, the …
Zoom’s revenue jumps 355% as it crushes earnings expectations
Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s hot streak continued today as the company reported fiscal second-quarter results well ahead of market expectations. The company, which most of the world now knows sells videoconferencing tools that enable online collaboration, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation …
Samsung starts producing faster, thinner DRAM chips for next year’s premium smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it has begun mass production of its most advanced dynamic random-access memory chips yet. The 16-gigabyte LPDDR5 DRAM chip is designed for mobile devices and is being manufactured at the company’s Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea, …
Okta beats earnings expectations as work-from-home trends accelerate
Cloud identity management company Okta Inc. beat earnings expectations in its second-quarter financial results today, but the strong performance wasn’t enough to prevent its stock falling more than 4% in after-hours trading. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock …
In surprise moves, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey to step down as Bain Capital steps up
Data center software and services company Nutanix Inc. caused a bit of a stir today, announcing that Chief Executive Dheeraj Pandey will retire. Pandey (pictured), who co-founded the company 11 years ago, said he will stay on until a successor has been …
Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge
Dell Technologies Inc. delivered a strong second quarter today, reporting financial results that topped expectations thanks to the growth of remote work and demand for educational devices. The company, which sells personal computers and data center infrastructure, reported a profit before certain costs …
NetApp’s stock jumps 10% as it tops earnings expectations
Data storage hardware and services provider NetApp Inc. posted better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results today, a day after it was reported to have laid off 5% of its workforce. The company, which sells data center storage hardware and software for managing cloud infrastructure, …
Big-data company Splunk stumbles, missing quarterly revenue target
Big-data analytics firm Splunk Inc. fell short of Wall Street’s expectations on its second-quarter financial results announced today. The company, which sells software to help enterprises search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, reported a loss before certain …