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Microsoft’s Power Platform gets new tools to automate business processes
Microsoft Corp. announced some important updates to its Power Platform that combines its application development and connectivity services with business intelligence tools. The updates, announced today at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, Florida, along with a large number of other new services, are all about making it easier for companies to automate manual business processes, ...
Microsoft expands hybrid cloud footprint with Azure Arc and more
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its hybrid cloud capabilities with the launch of a raft of new services this morning at its Ignite 2019 conference. The most important may be Azure Arc, available in preview starting today. It was announced at the weeklong conference in Orlando, Florida, where Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella (pictured) laid out the ...
Microsoft launches new Q&A forum in preview to replace TechNet and MSDN
Microsoft Corp. will replace its popular TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network support forums with a new service called “Microsoft Q&A” that’s likely to be up and running by the middle of next year. The new forum was launched earlier this week in preview, according to a document posted by Microsoft this week that was first ...
Report: Alibaba could launch Hong Kong IPO in November
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is looking at reviving its plans for an initial public offering in Hong Kong this year, albeit at a reduced price of $10 billion to $15 billion, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The company had originally planned to list in Hong Kong in August with the aim of raising ...
Amazon Web Services to expand into Spain with new cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced an expansion into Spain with a new cloud infrastructure region that’s set to open in late 2022 or early 2023. The region will be the company’s seventh in Europe, alongside existing facilities in Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and another upcoming region in Milan. Amazon said the Spain region will ...
After profits fall 56%, Samsung says it’s poised for a turnaround
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that things are looking up despite its operating profit falling 56% in the third quarter from a year ago. The company reported an operating profit of 7.78 trillion won ($6.7 billion) for the three-month period ending in September, just ahead of the 7.7 trillion won profit forecast it provided ...
Western Digital begins search for a new CEO to replace Steve Milligan
Data storage company Western Digital Corp. gave shareholders the jitters today after announcing plans to replace Chief Executive Officer Steve Milligan (pictured), who will retire next year. Milligan, who has led the company since 2013, said in a conference call that he intends to stay on for the time being while it searches for a successor. ...
iPhone sales fall but Apple beats earnings estimates anyway
Investors in Apple Inc. had plenty to cheer about today as the company reported earnings that beat expectations and forecast a strong holiday quarter. Apple’s solid fiscal fourth-quarter results were all the more impressive as iPhone sales came in lighter than expected. For the quarter just gone, Apple reported a profit before certain costs such as ...
Google announces TensorFlow Enterprise for large-scale machine learning
Google LLC today launched an enterprise version of TensorFlow, the popular open-source artificial intelligence framework it created to run machine learning, deep learning and other statistical and predictive analytics workloads. The TensorFlow framework simplifies the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions and refining future results. Common use cases include training algorithms for image ...
Nasuni platform updates enable analytics and AI on unstructured data
Data management company Nasuni Corp. is refreshing its file services platform today, enabling analytics, artificial intelligence and search on unstructured data as well as new cloud migration capabilities. The idea is to give more flexibility to organizations that like to use multiple cloud services. Nasuni’s file services platform is comprised of a network-attached storage appliance ...