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Pure Storage beats earnings forecasts but lowers guidance
Pure Storage Inc. reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings today, but it slashed revenue guidance for the next three months because of ongoing oversupply issues in the flash storage market. The company, which sells a mix of flash-based data storage hardware and software products, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of a penny a ...
Splunk acquires application monitoring firm SignalFX for $1.05B
Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced its largest-ever acquisition today as it delivered second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Splunk said it’s intending to buy the cloud application monitoring firm SignalFX Inc. for $1.05 billion. About 60% of that amount will be paid in cash, with the other 40% Splunk common stock, ...
Big tech firms join forces to advance ‘confidential computing’
A raft of big technology firms is backing a new Linux Foundation-led initiative that aims to promote the concept of “confidential computing,” or encrypting data while it’s in use. The Foundation said in a statement that the new Confidential Computing Consortium will focus on standardizing methods to ensure that data can be encrypted as it’s ...
Box adds stricter access controls and threat detection capabilities
Cloud content management company Box Inc. is bringing new content security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities to its users with the launch today of Box Shield. Box Shield was announced as a private beta a year ago at the file-sharing company’s annual BoxWorks conference. The service, which is built natively into Box’s content management suite, ...
H20.ai gets $72.5M funding to bring AI to the masses
Artificial intelligence firm H20.ai Inc. has just bagged a $72.5 million round of funding as it looks to further its mission of democratizing AI for businesses of all shapes and sizes. The Series D round was led by Goldman Sachs and Chinese venture capital firm Ping An Global Voyager Fund, and almost doubles the amount ...
Report: Apple’s health team suffers employee departures amid internal strife
Apple Inc.’s health team is in crisis, hit by a series of high-profile departures over the last year as a result of internal disagreements over its direction, according to a report by CNBC. The report cited anonymous sources as saying that some Apple employees feel that the company should be pursuing more ambitious health-related projects ...
Meet Springhill: Intel debuts its first chip for machine learning workloads
Intel Corp. today quietly announced its first dedicated artificial intelligence processor at a special event in Haifa, Israel. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (pictured), also known as “Springhill,” was developed at Intel’s labs in Haifa, and is said to be designed for large data centers running AI workloads. It’s based on a modified 10-nanometer Ice ...
Databricks intros AutoML tools for building machine learning models
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is hoping to empower so-called citizen data scientists to create their own machine learning models with new “Automated Machine Learning” capabilities in its Unified Analytics platform. The AutoML capabilities announced today rely on machine learning too, and are designed to help untrained workers muddle their way through the key steps involved in creating ...
Druva enables intelligent data storage on Amazon Web Services
Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. announced ahead of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco what it says is the industry’s first “multitier data storage system” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva sells an integrated service for AWS users that combines data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications into a central repository for backup, data protection, ...
Twitter open-sources network diagnostic tool Rezolus
Twitter Inc. has open-sourced an internally developed tool for discovering performance anomalies and usage spikes in its network that were too brief to be noticed by its regular observability and metrics systems. In a blog post Monday, Twitter site reliability engineer Brian Martin said Rezolus is a “high-resolution systems performance telemetry agent” that’s now available to ...