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Amazon.com Inc. has come up with a new artificial intelligence system that can train digital voice assistants such as Alexa to learn new speaking styles, similar to a newsreader for example, in a matter of hours. In a blog post today, Trevor Wood, …
With Contextor acquisition, SAP jumps into hot robotic process automation market
SAP SE today became the latest enterprise company to jump into the white-hot robotic process automation market, acquiring a significant player called Contextor SAS for an undisclosed price. SAP said it was buying Contextor primarily to help accelerate the development of its …
No surprise here, but Amazon continues to dominate the public cloud market
Amazon Web Services Inc. has retained its position as top dog in the public cloud infrastructure services market by some distance from its closest rivals, according to new data today from Synergy Research Group. The research firm said third-quarter data shows that …
Amid strong earnings, Pure Storage unveils its hybrid cloud play with AWS
Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. built on a strong third-quarter showing with the announcement of new block storage, data protection and deduplication services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company recorded a fiscal third-quarter profit before certain costs such as …
Cato Networks improves its ability to detect and resolve network outages
Networking specialist Cato Networks Ltd. says it’s getting better at monitoring performance fluctuations and resolving issues such as brownouts and blackouts more effectively. The company, which sells a software-defined wide-area network service, today introduced an intelligent “last mile management service” to its …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 makes its debut
Four years on from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, open source software company Red Hat Inc. finally announced today that version 8 of its computer server operating system is now in beta. A lot has changed in the world of …
Oracle buys SD-WAN company Talari Networks
Oracle Corp. said today it’s acquiring a software-defined wide area network company called Talari Networks Inc. in order to build out its cloud and networking businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Talari’s main product is its Failsafe technology, which …
AWS debuts Amazon Corretto, a free version of the OpenJDK Java kit
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a little stab at rival Oracle Corp. with the introduction today of Amazon Corretto, which ensures that Java is freely accessible to all of its users for the foreseeable future. Amazon Corretto is a free multiplatform …
NetApp puts on a brave face as its stock slides on disappointing guidance
Data storage company NetApp Inc. easily topped Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates thanks to strong sales of its all-flash storage arrays that led to a big boost in its annual revenue run rate. But the performance was undone by somewhat disappointing guidance …
Cisco shows steady earnings progress as all of its businesses grow
Cisco Systems Inc. comfortably beat fiscal first-quarter expectations today thanks to higher customer spending on applications and cybersecurity tools. The networking giant posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 75 cents per share. Revenue rose 8 percent from a year …