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Google’s Cloud Text-to-Speech gets more languages and voices
Google LLC today updated its Cloud Text-to-Speech service with new languages and voices in order to make it useful to more of its customers. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is intended to help companies develop better conversational interfaces for the services they supply. It works by transforming written text into artificial speech that’s spoken in realistic human ...
Cloud-native infrastructure management firm Platform9 raises $25M
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. said today it has raised $25 million in a late-stage round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to $61.5 million. NGP Capital led the Series D round, which also saw participation from Mubadala Ventures and previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Canvas Ventures and ...
VMware debuts new virtual cloud network tools to support multicloud deployments
VMware Inc. is building out its portfolio of software-defined wide-area network tools as part of an effort to advance its vision of a “virtual cloud network” that connects and secures applications, data and users across multiple cloud platforms. VMware’s idea of a virtual cloud network is a key ingredient of its wider hybrid cloud strategy, ...
France and the US agree to tax deal on tech giants
France and the U.S. say they’ve reached a deal to put an end to a French technology tax that would have hurt some of America’s biggest companies. The two countries announced the compromise today during a press briefing at the end of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France. The French tax, which was announced ...
Nvidia brings AI workloads to VMware on AWS Cloud
Nvidia Corp. is enabling artificial intelligence and machine learning in the public cloud with the launch of new “accelerated GPU services” on VMware Cloud on AWS. Announced at the VMworld 2019 conference today, the new services make it simple to migrate existing vSphere-based applications and software containers to VMware Cloud on AWS, which is a ...
SPECIAL REPORT: COPING WITH MULTICLOUD
With new platform, VMware extends hybrid cloud push
VMware Inc. kicked off the opening day of its VMworld 2019 conference early today with a number of announcements that aim to further its hybrid cloud strategy. As the leading public cloud companies all fight among themselves to grab enterprise workloads that were previously deployed in on-premises data centers, VMware has cleverly positioned itself as the ...
HP CEO Dion Weisler steps down, to be replaced by 30-year vet Enrique Lores
HP Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is quitting his job and will be replaced by Enrique Lores as of Nov. 1, the company said today. Weisler (pictured), who has led HP ever since its split from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. in 2015, is stepping down for what the company said was a “family ...
Salesforce stock jumps as customer software giant’s earnings top forecast
Salesforce.com Inc. ticked all the boxes today as it reported second-quarter earnings that beat forecasts and provided guidance for the next quarter that surpassed what was expected. The company, which sells software for managing customer relationships, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 66 cents per share on revenue of $4 billion, ...
ANALYSIS
VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. put its money where its mouth is today, announcing the acquisitions of software development platform provider Pivotal Software Inc. and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black Inc. VMware said it’s buying Pivotal for $2.7 billion, while Carbon Black will cost it an additional $2.1 billion. The deals, expected to close before January 2020, ...
Protests prompt Alibaba to delay Hong Kong stock exchange listing
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will reportedly postpone an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange because of ongoing political tensions in the territory. Alibaba’s listing was scheduled to take place in late August and could have raised up to $20 billion for the company. But Reuters said the company decided to postpone ...