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Oracle Corp. is racing to latch onto one of the hottest trends in tech, announcing the general availability of its Blockchain Cloud Service that it announced last year. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it also has use …
Microsoft adds new data prep capabilities to Power BI
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday provided a sneak peak of some upcoming new features in its Power BI and Azure Cloud offerings, ahead of its Inspire partner conference that takes place in Las Vegas next week. With its analytics service Power BI, Microsoft …
Informatica collaborates with Google’s Apigee on API integration
Informatica LLC is teaming up with Google LLC’s Apigee product group to offer a new unified application programming interface and integration service. Informatica is a provider of enterprise-grade cloud data management products, while Apigee is an API platform available on Google’s cloud. It’s …
Intel acquires eASIC to boost its programmable-chip business
Intel Corp. today said it’s buying a fabless chipmaker called eASIC Corp., which builds programmable computer chips that can be customized during the production process. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Intel said the price was “not material.” The deal …
StackRox hardens its Kubernetes threat detection platform
Container security company StackRox Inc. is updating its Kubernetes threat-detection platform with new capabilities that should help to prevent incidents such as the recent hack of Tesla Inc. StackRox, which recently landed $25 million in funding, offers a cloud-based platform that provides …
Most enterprises will re-evaluate their cloud strategies for the multicloud era
As large enterprises increasingly adopt multiple cloud computing platforms to host business critical software applications, almost three quarters of them are planning to re-evaluate their cloud strategies or implement an entirely new one. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Forrester …
Snowflake Computing’s cloud data warehouse lands on Microsoft Azure
Big-data startup Snowflake Computing Inc. is bringing its cloud data warehouse to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform, giving customers a second option besides running it on Amazon Web Services. Founded in 2012, Snowflake offers a data warehouse and analytics service hosted in …
Fujitsu offers 5-day course to help businesses get started with blockchain
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu Ltd. is launching a new blockchain consultancy service for companies that would like to know whether their plans for a distributed digital ledger are viable. The company said its new service is “extremely rapid” and will provide proof-of-business and …
Moving into software, Broadcom announces $19B acquisition of CA Technologies
More consolidation is coming in the semiconductor market with the news today that Broadcom Inc. has agreed to acquire traditional software giant CA Technologies Inc. for almost $19 billion. The planned acquisition, which was confirmed by both companies late Wednesday, is Broadcom’s first new …
Salesforce adds Einstein Bots to its customer service cloud platform
Salesforce.com is continuing to build out its portfolio of software-as-a-service products with the general availability of Einstein Bots for its Service Cloud platform. Service Cloud is software that’s used by customer service professionals to provide support services after a sale has been …