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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 ...
Cloud companies form Ceph Foundation to advance object storage tech
The Linux Foundation Monday announced the formation of a new “Ceph Foundation” backed by more than 30 major technology firms hoping to support and manage the popular open-source storage technology. Ceph is a unified and distributed storage system used by some of the world’s largest cloud service providers, including Rackspace Inc. as well as major ...
IBM’s Summit and Sierra supercomputers ranked as world’s most powerful
The U.S. now has two machines atop the world’s supercomputer rankings, with a pair of IBM Corp.-built systems holding first and second place ahead of their Chinese competitors. The latest edition of the Top500 List shows that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summit supercomputer (pictured), which first secured the No. 1 spot in June, has ...
Oracle’s cloud adds new options for high-powered computing workloads
Oracle Corp.’s Cloud Infrastructure business is adding new bare-metal compute instances for high-performance computing workloads such as artificial intelligence and engineering simulations. The bare-metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances — meaning they ship without additional software, making them lean and thus potentially faster — announced Monday are an addition to the company’s Clustered Network. That’s a ...
SAP snaps up experience management software company Qualtrics for $8B
German enterprise software giant SAP SE is beefing up its capabilities even more with the acquisition of survey software specialist Qualtrics International Inc. for a hefty $8 billion. The all-cash deal, announced Sunday night, comes just before Qualtrics’ planned initial public offering. It has already received the stamp of approval from the boards of both companies, ...
New Docker release gives enterprises a way to maintain their oldest legacy apps
Software container company Docker Inc. is offering an olive branch to enterprises still running legacy applications on outdated versions of Windows Server with its latest platform update released Thursday. The headline feature of Docker Enterprise 2.1 is the new Windows Server migration program that’s designed to help companies containerize their older applications. The release also adds support for ...
Dropbox sees shares rise again as it beats earnings expectations
Enterprise file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. beat earnings and guidance expectations when it reported its third-quarter results today, boosting its stock price by 8 percent in after-hours trading. The company, which provides cloud-based file sharing and collaboration tools, had seen its share price take a beating in the previous quarter, falling more than 10 percent on ...