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Arcadia Data aims new search tool at making it easier to find big-data insights
Business intelligence software provider Arcadia Data Inc. is making it easier to query data sets with a new Google-like search tool released today that provides quick insights in the form of easy-to-consume data visualizations. Arcadia Data’s business intelligence platform works directly on unstructured and semistructured data that’s stored in massive “data lakes,” which are centralized ...
HubSpot moves the bulk of its IT infrastructure to Amazon’s cloud
Marketing software firm HubSpot Inc. gave Amazon Web Services Inc. a big thumbs up today, announcing it has chosen the company as is its preferred public cloud provider. Amazon, which makes a habit of showcasing these kinds of big-name customer wins, said HubSpot will be shifting its “core products,” including HubSpot CRM, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub ...
Data Artisans enables more complex transactions on streaming data
Big-data company data Artisans GmbH is enabling online transaction processing on streaming data through its commercialized version of the Apache Flink platform. Apache Flink is an open source stream processing framework that was created to process rapid flows of real-time data, such as that produced by credit card activity monitoring, machine learning and business intelligence. ...
Baidu has created a ‘no code’ platform to make building AI models easier
Hoping to make up ground in the hotly contested artificial intelligence battleground, Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. is releasing a tool that allows businesses to create and deploy AI models without coding skills. Announced Saturday, EZDL is a “no-code platform to build custom machine learning models,” designed with ease of use and security in mind, ...
Updated: Japan chipmaker Renesas acquires IDT for $6.7B
Updated: Japanese semiconductor firm Renesas Electronics Corp., which specializes in making computer chips for self-driving cars, this weekend acknowledged reports that it’s considering acquiring the U.S. firm Integrated Device Technology Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $6 billion. The proposed deal, first reported by the Nikkei business news service Saturday, would ...
OpenStack’s new Rocky release enables bare-metal clouds and serverless functions
The OpenStack Foundation today upgraded its cloud infrastructure platform with new capabilities for operators of both private and public clouds. The OpenStack Rocky release comes with improvements to the “Ironic” bare metal provisioning service and updates that make it easier to migrate to newer versions of the platform. It also adds support for the so-called “serverless” functionality that’s ...
Nutanix beats earnings estimates, but investors shy away on poor guidance
Updated: Data center software company Nutanix Inc. saw its share price dip today after reporting disappointing guidance that tempered an otherwise positive fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. The company said it took a net loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of $19 million, or 11 cents per share, on revenue of $303.7 million. That ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Equinix delivers private connections to VMware Cloud on AWS
Data center operator Equinix Inc. is teaming up with VMware Inc. to offer private connectivity through its global infrastructure to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services via AWS Direct Connect. With the offering, enterprises will be able to access VMware Cloud on AWS through a private connection that bypasses the public internet. The benefits of doing so ...
Nvidia’s GPU cloud for deep learning can now be accessed via Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. today said it’s teaming up with Nvidia Corp. so that its Azure cloud customers can tap into the graphics chipmaker’s GPU Cloud in order to train deep learning models. Nvidia’s GPU Cloud offers developers preconfigured containers with software accelerated by its graphics processing units, which offer better performance than standard central processing units when ...
Despite solid earnings, Salesforce investors are less than impressed
Updated: Salesforce.com Inc. easily topped earnings estimates in a strong second quarter, but investors were far from impressed as it came up short on its third-quarter guidance, sending its share price down in after-hours trading. Salesforce, widely regarded as the leader in customer relationship management software, posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation ...