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Mysteriously, analytics firm Splunk says it’s pulling out of Russia
Big data analytics firm Splunk Inc. says it’s pulling out of Russia. The company, which also sells cybersecurity tools, didn’t provide any reason for its decision, beyond that it’s “continually evaluating” where it invests and focuses its resources. “As part of this ongoing evaluation, we have decided Splunk will no longer be selling software and ...
Google expands Android Enterprise Recommended to managed service providers
Google LLC is further expanding the scope of its Android Enterprise Recommended program. Today it’s opening it up to managed service providers and companies with their own MSP business units that serve to provision, manage, and support multiple devices for their employees. The Android Enterprise Recommended program, opened to smartphone makers last year, details common specifications ...
Serverless startup Nuweba emerges from stealth mode
Israeli startup Nuweba Labs Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with the launch of its function-as-a-service offering that aims to address some of the biggest barriers to adoption of serverless computing platforms. Backed by a $4.8 million seed funding round led by Magma Partners and Target Global, Nuweba reckons its serverless computing platform can overcome ...
Zoho adds an infusion of AI to its office suite
Software-as-a-service company Zoho Corp. Pvt. Ltd. is trying to innovate in a crowded productivity market that’s dominated by larger rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC. The company on Thursday revamped its office suite with new artificial intelligence capabilities powered by its Zia intelligent assistant. For instance, Zia has been integrated with Zoho Writer ...
Amazon adds 5 new bare-metal compute instance types to EC2
Amazon Web Services Inc. this week added five new bare-metal instance options to its Elastic Compute Cloud, its main cloud computing platform. The new bare-metal instance types — bare-metal meaning they’re provided without installed software — are designed for workloads that need to access the processor and underlying hardware directly, while ensuring elasticity, scalability and ...
Nvidia’s shares rise after it beats lowered earnings forecast
Updated: Nvidia Corp. is on an upswing again, at least with investors, after making its way through out a “turbulent close” to what had been a “great year” for the company, according to Chief Executive Jensen Huang. The company, which makes graphics processing chips for gaming, artificial intelligence workloads and bitcoin miners, reported fourth-quarter results ...
Amazon launches a lower-cost storage tier for its Elastic File System
Amazon Web Services Inc. late today introduced a new storage tier for its Elastic File System service. Amazon EFS is a highly scalable storage service for cloud-hosted workloads that was first introduced in 2016. It allows AWS customers to create petabyte-scale file systems that can be accessed by hundreds of thousands of EC2 cloud compute instances and ...
NetApp’s stock takes a hit as its revenue growth stalls
Updated: Shareholders in data storage company NetApp Inc. were left reeling today after the company reported revenue and guidance that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The company, which sells data storage systems and software for hybrid cloud information technology environments, reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.20 per share. ...
Cisco delivers solid earnings as it steps up a transition to software
Updated: Cisco Systems Inc. looks to be humming along nicely after delivering strong second-quarter earnings today that edged past Wall Street’s expectations. The computer networking giant’s shares rose almost 4 percent in extended trading Wednesday after it reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 73 cents per share. Update: Shares closed up ...
Tableau Software adds Ask Data so users can query data with their natural voice
Tableau Software Inc., whose mission is to make insights from big data more accessible, today took a big step further with the addition of new natural language processing capabilities. The new feature is called “Ask Data” and allows Tableau users to ask questions using their natural voice and get instant visual insights that will hopefully ...