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Google applies machine learning to make its Sheets spreadsheet software smarter
Google LLC is building on the machine learning technology that was integrated into its spreadsheet software last year. The company said today that it’s enhancing the “Explore” feature in Sheets with new capabilities including formula suggestions and pivot tables powered by machine learning that are designed to deliver faster and more useful insights. Sheets is part of ...
Alcide emerges with $5.2M seed funding to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments
Hoping to address some of the security problems inherent in what it calls the “modern data center,” a startup called Alcide is emerging from stealth mode with a new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments. The company today also announced a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Intel Capital and ...
Microsoft launches preview of ‘low code’ service for building ‘internet of things’ systems
Microsoft Corp. today announced the public preview of a new service that’s designed to help enterprises easily build large-scale “internet of things” systems. The software giant said Microsoft IoT Central, which is powered by its Azure cloud, is a software-as-a-service offering that’s meant to connect physical internet of things devices to “back-end services” such as asset ...
VMware updates NSX-T network software to support software container development
VMware Inc. took to the stage at Pivotal Software Inc.’s SpringOne Platform conference in San Francisco today to announce an updated version of its NSX virtual networking software. The virtualization giant offers two different versions of its software-defined networking software. NSX is the better known and more widely used of the two. It integrates with ...
Google launches new machine learning services for analyzing video and text content
Google LLC is moving forward with its effort to help developers add more layers of intelligence into their software applications, announcing general availability of two new machine learning services. The new releases pertain to Google’s Cloud Video Intelligence and Cloud Natural Language Content Classification. In a blog post, Google engineers Wei Hua and Apoorv Saxena ...
Pivotal Software adds serverless compute, software containers to Cloud Foundry
Software and services company Pivotal Software Inc., a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., today announced a major update to its Cloud Foundry product during its annual SpringOne Platform conference. The update adds new serverless computing capabilities to the popular developer platform, and it also integrates Pivotal’s new container service, announced during VMworld 2017 in August. Pivotal ...
CoreOS adds open-source infrastructure services to its Tectonic Kubernetes platform
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is updating its popular Tectonic platform, adding a number of open-source services that serve as alternatives to proprietary infrastructure components from public cloud companies. CoreOS’s Tectonic platform is essentially an enterprise-grade version of the Kubernetes container orchestration tool, which is used to manage clusters of software containers, which in turn ...
With solid customer growth, Nutanix beats earnings forecasts
Hyperconvered infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. today said it soundly beat market expectations with its fiscal first-quarter results. The company, which sells an enterprise cloud platform that converges servers, virtualization and storage into integrated product that can connect to public cloud services, reported a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of $24.7 million, or 16 ...
Box’s loss in line with Wall Street’s estimates but shares fall
Cloud content management company Box Inc. reported a larger third-quarter loss Wednesday thanks to higher spending on marketing as it looks to sign up more customers in what is becoming an increasingly competitive business. Box’s third-quarter results were largely in line with Wall Street’s estimates, but shareholders seemed less than impressed, with the company’s share price ...
Amazon announces new serverless and graph databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up its database services in a big way. The company on Wednesday introduced a new offering at its AWS re:Invent conference that aims to boost the reliability, scale and usability of its Aurora database. In addition, it announced a brand-new service called AWS Neptune to help customers build and ...