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AWS debuts Amazon Corretto, a free version of the OpenJDK Java kit
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a little stab at rival Oracle Corp. with the introduction today of Amazon Corretto, which ensures that Java is freely accessible to all of its users for the foreseeable future. Amazon Corretto is a free multiplatform and production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit, which is used by ...
NetApp puts on a brave face as its stock slides on disappointing guidance
Data storage company NetApp Inc. easily topped Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates thanks to strong sales of its all-flash storage arrays that led to a big boost in its annual revenue run rate. But the performance was undone by somewhat disappointing guidance for the next quarter, sending its stock down by almost 6 percent in ...
Cisco shows steady earnings progress as all of its businesses grow
Cisco Systems Inc. comfortably beat fiscal first-quarter expectations today thanks to higher customer spending on applications and cybersecurity tools. The networking giant posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 75 cents per share. Revenue rose 8 percent from a year ago, to $13.1 billion. Wall Street was hoping for a profit of just 72 ...
Scalyr’s application monitoring platform adds Kubernetes to the mix
Cloud-based application monitoring startup Scalyr Inc. today is updating its platform to make it easier to monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments. The company is also adding support for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s CloudWatch monitoring and management service. Scalyr stepped up into the spotlight late last year when it secured a $20 million early-stage funding round led ...
ThoughtSpot adds voice search to its business intelligence platform
Business intelligence software provider ThoughtSpot Inc. is adding a new feature called SearchIQ in the latest release of its platform today. The update provides natural language processing and search-by-voice capabilities via an intelligent layer that sits atop of ThoughtSpot’s existing relational search engine. What this means is that users can now ask questions about their ...
Robotic process automation firm UiPath grabs more funding at $3B valuation
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. seems to know a thing or two about getting investors to part with their cash. The company, which recently landed a massive $225 million Series C funding round led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture arm, early today said it has closed on an “extension” of that round with an ...
Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
Hell-bent on pushing their so-called “digital transformation” agendas, enterprises will spend almost $2 trillion a year by 2022 in order to get there, according to a new analysis from International Data Corp. The research firm said enterprises will spend a combined $1.97 trillion on technologies that enable the digital transformation of their businesses in 2022, ...
SurveyMonkey’s shares jump on its first earnings report since IPO
Survey software company SurveyMonkey Inc. cheered investors Tuesday with a smaller-than-expected loss in its first quarterly earnings report since going public. Revenue also came in above estimates, helping the company’s stock jump in after-hours trading. The San Mateo, California-based company reported an adjusted loss of a penny a share. Revenue was up 18 percent to $65.2 ...
Cisco hardens its SD-WAN networking platform to secure cloud-hosted apps
Cisco Systems Inc. is fusing the best of its security software offerings with its software-defined wide area network tools announced today, in a bid to help secure modern applications no matter where they’re accessed from. Cisco’s SD-WAN platform is used to connect enterprise networks such as branch offices and data centers over large geographic distances. ...
Google builds AI model that accurately distinguishes among human voices
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit has made some big advances in its efforts to build a system that can accurately distinguish among different human voices. The system employs something called “speaker diarization,” defined as the process of partitioning out a speech sample into distinctive homogeneous segments according to which speaker said what. This process comes ...
