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WANdisco LiveAnalytics enables data to be analyzed as it moves to the cloud
Data management company WANdisco Plc is debuting a new tool that makes it possible for organizations to analyze on-premises data while it’s being migrated to the cloud. WANdisco said its LiveAnalytics offering helps to ensure “uninterrupted business insights” as companies move data from on-premises environments such as Hadoop to cloud hosted analytics services such as ...
Apple’s longtime communications chief Steve Dowling quits
More leadership changes are taking place at Apple Inc. The iPhone maker’s Vice President of Communications Steve Dowling will be leaving the company at the end of next month in what is the latest in a series of unexpected executive departures. Recode first reported the news today, saying that Dowling (pictured) will remain at the company until next ...
GitHub automates vulnerability discovery with Semmle code analysis engine
Software development platform GitHub Inc. is making it easier for security researchers to identify vulnerabilities in the code it hosts after acquiring a company called Semmle Ltd. Semmle has built what GitHub says is a “revolutionary code analysis engine” that works by performing “variant analysis” on entire codebases to spot mistakes that might create a vulnerability. ...
Aliro Technologies helps developers write quantum apps once and run them anywhere
Startup Aliro Technologies is emerging from stealth today, landing $2.7 million in a seed funding round for its mission to democratize quantum computing. Flybridge Capital Partners led the round, which also saw the participation of Crosslink Ventures and Samsung NEXT’s Q fund. Aliro began its life as a project at Harvard University’s quantum computing lab. There, ...
Tableau Software’s latest AI helps explain what your data means
Data visualization company Tableau Software Inc. is relying more heavily on artificial intelligence as it tries help users uncover more insights buried deep within their data. The company is pitching a new AI-powered capability called “Explain Data.” It’s just one of several interesting new features in its latest Tableau 2019.3 release. Others include a new ...
SWIM enables real-time edge data analytics on Microsoft Azure
Edge computing company SWIM Inc. wants to help enterprises bring all of their data-generating assets together within Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. By doing so, the data can quickly be analyzed in real-time, labeled appropriately and then put to use by any Azure-based applications that require it, the company said. SWIM is an interesting company that ...
LinkedIn debuts Skills Assessments for users to prove their expertise
LinkedIn. Corp. today added a new skills test feature to its website that lets users prove their expertise in a variety of fields. LinkedIn Skill Assessments, first previewed in May, is a series of short, standardized tests that rely on “adaptive testing,” which adjusts to people’s test performance by offering easier or harder questions based ...
Adobe stock falls on light guidance
Creativity software company Adobe Inc. beat expectations on third-quarter earnings today, but the strong performance was tempered by soft guidance for the next quarter. Adobe, which sells the popular Photoshop image editing tool and a range of cloud marketing technology services, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.05 per share ...
Pure Storage debuts ‘AI First’ infrastructure and new cloud services
Data storage company Pure Storage Inc. is making a play for more artificial intelligence workloads with a new “AI First” infrastructure offering announced today at its Pure//Accelerate 2019 event in Austin this week. The new AI Data Hub product is billed as an “end-to-end AI pipeline solution” that provides enterprises with the infrastructure they need ...
Oracle and VMware announce key hybrid cloud partnership
Oracle Corp. has become the latest public cloud platform provider to team up with VMware Inc. to advance the idea of running computing workloads in a similar way both in corporate data centers and in the cloud. The companies announced today a new partnership that will enable their joint customers to setup hybrid cloud environments that can ...