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Microsoft adds new data management and analytics services to Azure
Microsoft Corp. is adding to the data management capabilities of its Azure cloud with the launch today of two new services into general availability. Company officials said in a series of blog posts that Azure Data Explorer or ADX and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) will provide Azure users with more flexibility when it ...
Illumio raises $65M more for its adaptive cybersecurity approach
Cybersecurity startup Illumio Inc. today said it has closed a $65 million round of late-stage funding led by clients advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The Series E round follows an even bigger one back in June 2017, when it raised $125 million in a Series D investment. Today’s round brings the company’s total funding to ...
Accenture looks beyond digital transformation: Get ready for the post-digital era
Enterprises will need to look beyond the much-in-vogue idea of “digital transformation” if they want to maintain a competitive advantage and differentiate themselves from their competitors, according to a new report from information technology consultancy Accenture Plc. Digital transformation refers to the idea of integrating digital technology into all areas of a business, in order ...
Microsoft joins the OpenChain Project to push open-source software licensing standards
Microsoft Corp. wants to support more standardization of open-source software licensing, so today it’s putting its weight behind the OpenChain Project as its latest platinum member. Microsoft joins other platinum members that include Google LLC, Arm Holdings Ltd. and Facebook Inc., as well as GitHub Inc., which Microsoft acquired last year. The OpenChain Project was ...
Google cuts out more Gmail spam with TensorFlow
Google LLC is beefing up Gmail’s anti-spam capabilities with new protections, powered by its machine learning software framework TensorFlow, that are designed to complement its existing algorithms. In a blog post today, Neil Kumaran, a product manager for Google’s Counter Abuse Technology department, describes how the company’s current efforts already can block more than 99.99 ...
IBM cloud lands big customers in the energy sector
IBM Corp. might not carry the same kind of clout in the public cloud as rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but it’s managing to compete in specific niche industries where its unique artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities can make all the difference. Such is the case with Smart Energy ...
UK newspaper The Telegraph goes all-in on Google’s cloud
Google LLC is highlighting some of the capabilities of its public cloud infrastructure after landing a major new customer: Telegraph Media Group Ltd., which publishes The Telegraph, one of the U.K.’s most popular newspapers. The Telegraph said today it’s migrating its entire information technology infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform after using its G Suite productivity ...
Red Hat intros CodeReady Workspaces for Kubernetes-native container app development
Red Hat Inc. is trying to make life easier for developers who build their applications using software containers and manage them with Kubernetes. The company, which will soon be acquired by IBM Corp., today announced what it says is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native, browser-based integrated development environment or IDE, called Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces. Red Hat ...
Tableau Software beats earnings forecast as it switches to new accounting standard
Tableau Software Inc. reported fourth-quarter results today that beat Wall Street’s expectations on both profit and revenue, but its stock still fell slightly in after-hours trading. The business intelligence analytics software company’s shares were down more than 5.5 percent at one point in the extended session before rallying somewhat to settle at 2.6 percent down. ...
Doubling down on data science, Databricks lands massive $250M round
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is topping up its war chest with a hefty $250 million late-stage round of funding. The Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coatue Management, Microsoft Corp. and New Enterprise Associates also participated in the round, which brings Databricks’ total capital raised to date to $498.5 million. Databricks sells a Unified Analytics ...