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Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced a couple of new application development tools aimed at making life easier for cloud developers. The new projects include the Open Application Model, which is a specification for building cloud-native apps on Kubernetes, and Dapr, a portable event-driven …
Despite Red Hat boost, IBM misses revenue targets
IBM Corp. narrowly missed Wall Street estimates on revenue as it reported third-quarter results today, blaming the shortfall on a weakness in some European markets that hurt sales within its Global Technology Services Unit. The company’s shares fell more than 5% in …
Facebook makes big advances in AI reasoning and machine translation
Facebook Inc. is using its @Scale conference today to provide an update on its progress in artificial intelligence research. The social media company is open-sourcing a new “AI reasoning” platform and providing some updates on its research into machine translation. It’s part of a …
Google debuts Security Health Analytics for its cloud platform
Google LLC today launched a new cloud security service that aims to help ensure its customer stay in compliance with any regulations they need to adhere to. Security Health Analytics is a security service that integrates with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center. …
Open-source Delta Lake project moves to the Linux Foundation
Databricks Inc.’s Delta Lake today became the latest open-source software project to fall under the banner of the Linux Foundation. Delta Lake has rapidly gained momentum since it was open-sourced by Databricks in April, and is already being used by thousands of organizations, …
Red Hat piles up more developers tools in OpenShift 4.2 release
Red Hat Inc. today added some new developer client tools and local development capabilities to its OpenShift container application platform aimed at making software developers more productive. The new tools include ready-to-use OpenShift developer services for Service Mesh, Serverless and Pipelines, as well …
Intel buys Pivot Technology’s Smart Edge platform
Intel Corp. said today it has agreed to acquire the Smart Edge platform from information technology infrastructure provider Pivot Technology Solutions Inc. The deal is meant to help Intel fulfill its vision of becoming a leader in the emerging edge computing business. “This transaction …
Amazon’s consumer business ditches Oracle’s databases
Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.’s executive chairman and chief technology officer, will need to come up with another excuse to take a dig at Amazon Web Services Inc. after his archrival announced it has finally moved off the company’s databases. AWS announced today …
Zoom announces customized appliances for videoconference meetings
Videoconferencing software company Zoom Video Communications Inc. is talking up the hardware today at its Zoomtopia 2019 event, announcing partnerships with outside suppliers to develop purpose-built appliances for Zoom Rooms. Zoom is first and foremost a software company. Its core product is …
UiPath announces new tools and acquisitions to automate more business processes
Robotic processing automation firm UiPath Inc. announced a couple of key acquisitions at its Forward III conference in Las Vegas today alongside a swath of improvements to its RPA platform. Backed by a billion dollars in venture capital funding, UiPath is one …