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Despite VMware boost, Dell misses revenue targets as US-China trade tensions bite
Dell Technologies Inc. missed revenue targets today as its server business struggled with higher costs and lower demand in a market left reeling by ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China. The infrastructure technology giant reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.75 per share on revenue of $22.8 ...
AWS says businesses should move to its cloud to lower their carbon footprint
Most businesses are all too aware of the benefits to be had from moving their enterprise technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. AWS itself typically cites increased agility and innovation, access to its global infrastructure, and considerable cost savings as the main reasons to consider such a move, and it’s one ...
After a successful transition to software, Nutanix sees stock jump 21%
Updated: Nutanix Inc. is riding high today after reporting first-quarter financial results that easily beat market expectations, sending its stock soaring more than 21% in after-hours trading today. The company, which sells so-called hyperconverged information technology infrastructure that integrates compute, storage and networking components, reported a loss before certain cost such as stock compensation of ...
HPE stock falls on fourth-quarter revenue miss
Updated: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s stock fell more than 4% in after-hours trading Monday after the company reported fourth-quarter revenue that fell short of expectations. The provider of enterprise hardware and software reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 49 cents per share on revenue of $7.22 billion, down 9% from the same period a ...
AWS extends Alexa Voice Services to the smallest of connected devices
Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its game in the emerging “internet of things” today by bringing voice control capabilities to low-powered devices where it was previously impossible to do so. Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services are already widely used in its Echo smart speakers and other devices that can in turn be hooked up to various ...
Seattle Seahawks will use AWS to shape NFL game strategy
The Seattle Seahawks football team is looking to Amazon Web Services Inc. to give it a competitive edge in the NFL. The team said Monday it intends to make use of Amazon’s extensive cloud computing services to inform its game strategy and achieve more positive results. The Seahawks become the latest marquee customer for AWS, saying ...
Google’s Explainable AI service sheds light on how machine learning models make decisions
Google LLC has introduced a new “Explainable AI” service to its cloud platform aimed at making the process by which machine learning models come to their decisions more transparent. The idea is that this will help build greater trust in those models, Google said. That’s important because most existing models tend to be rather opaque. ...
Splunk’s hot streak continues as earnings top estimates
Updated: Data analytics company Splunk Inc. has delivered another strong quarter, beating Wall Street’s forecasts on earnings and revenue and posting strong guidance for the next three-month period. The company, which sells software that helps enterprises to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, today reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs ...
Pure Storage tanks after missing revenue forecasts – again
Updated: Pure Storage Inc.‘s stock took a huge beating today after the data storage company reported third-quarter revenue that missed estimates by some distance. And if that wasn’t enough, the company’s revenue guidance for the next quarter also came up short. Pure Storage, which sells a range of flash memory-based data storage hardware and software products, ...
Google’s Migrate for Anthos service is now generally available
Google LLC announced at its Cloud Next UK 2019 event the general availability of a new tool that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos hybrid cloud platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos runs atop the Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed to host ...