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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 ...
Google adds private-cloud logs feature to boost network transparency
Google LLC is adding a new service to its cloud that gives enterprises deeper, real-time visibility into their networks. The idea behind Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs is that customers can gain more insights into what’s going on with their networks in order to improve security and business operations. In a blog post, Ines Envid, ...
Nexenta intros a software-defined storage platform for the AWS cloud
Software-defined storage company Nexenta Systems Inc. is pitching a new cloud-native storage solution for customers using Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. NexentaCloud for Amazon Web Services is based on the company’s original NexentaStor product, which is an open-source SDS platform for on-premises deployments. The new service is designed to help integrate applications running on ...
IBM brings new startups into its quantum computing network
Hoping to stay at the forefront of the nascent quantum computing field, IBM Corp. said today that it’s welcoming seven startups into its IBM Q Network community. The IBM Q Network is a community of companies and other organizations that are dedicated to advancing quantum computing through the exploration of practical applications for business and ...