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Oracle adds new AI services to its Customer Experience Cloud Suite
Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it has enhanced its Customer Experience Cloud Suite with the addition of three new products aimed at helping customers step up their digital transformation efforts. The new products include an analytics application called Infinity, a segmentation tool for marketers called CX Audience and a new service aimed at customer retention called ...
OCI announces new standard for distributing software container images
The Open Container Initiative has just launched a new project as part of its mission to create open industry standards around software container formats and rules. The group said Monday it wants to standardize container image distribution based on Docker Inc.’s Registry v2 protocol in order to further interoperability within the container ecosystem. Software containers are ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release targets hybrid clouds
Open-source software company Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its game around Microsoft Windows integration, hybrid cloud environments and software containers in the latest version of its enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat Tuesday announced its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release, touting improvements it says enables the platform to become “a consistent foundation for ...
Marc Benioff says Salesforce will introduce a blockchain product later this year
One of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, Salesforce.com Inc., has hinted at its plans to introduce a “blockchain and cryptocurrency solution” later this year. The comments came from Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff (pictured) himself during an interview at the TrailheaDX conference last week alongside company co-founder Parker Harris. In the interview, Benioff ...
Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018
Worldwide information technology spending will grow by a record 6.2 percent this year, hitting $3.7 trillion, according to a new estimate from Gartner Inc. The prediction, which came via the analyst firm’s latest forecast on IT spending, is for the highest annual growth rate it has predicted since it began tracking the market in 2007. ...
Google improves transcription with new training models for Cloud Speech-to-Text
Google LLC is refusing to let up on the artificial intelligence front. In its latest update, the web giant today announced some major changes to its popular Cloud Speech Application Programming Interface, which was first introduced in 2016. Google said it’s renaming the Cloud Speech API as “Cloud Speech-to-Text” in a move that helps identify it ...
Velostrata enables rapid application migration to Google’s cloud
A startup called Velostrata Inc. wants to make it easier and cheaper for enterprises to migrate on-premises workloads to Google LLC’s cloud platform. The startup said its new GCP-Velostrata-integrated service can reduce the cost of workload migrations by performing them five times faster than conventional methods. In turn, that reduces the amount of time companies are ...
Immuta adds native policy enforcement for SparkSQL data
Data management startup Immuta Inc. today announced it’s updating its platform, enabling data scientists using the widely adopted data processing software Apache Spark to build algorithms that adhere to strict policies on governance and privacy. Immuta’s data management platform focuses on preparing data for use in artificial intelligence and machine learning projects. Meanwhile, Apache Spark is ...
There’s no stopping Samsung as memory chips drive profits up 58 percent
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is set to top analysts’ projections for its earnings once again. In a preliminary earnings forecast issued early Friday in Korea, the company said it’s expecting a greater than 50 percent jump in its fiscal first-quarter profit over a year ago. The company pegs its first-quarter operating profit at ...
Microsoft will let technology partners own rights to joint innovations
Microsoft Corp. is telling partners that it works with on new products that they don’t need worry that it might one day decide to compete against them. In a blog post Wednesday, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that companies with which it works on joint ventures will be able to keep the design and patent rights ...