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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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, ...