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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Wednesday announced that it has appointed longtime HP executive Antonio Neri as its new president. The executive had served as the company’s enterprise group executive vice president and general manager for the last two years. The role of president is a …
Report: Wal-Mart orders its developers not to use the Amazon cloud
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is trying to hit back against Amazon.com Inc. following the e-commerce giant’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. last week. Apparently feeling threatened by that deal, the retail giant has reportedly told its developer partners not to use Amazon Web Services …
SUSE’s container as a service platform goes live
Open-source Linux company SUSE announced on Tuesday the general release of its new container as a service platform that first appeared in beta in March. SUSE Container as a Service is the latest piece in the company’s growing software-defined infrastructure suite, which …
Adobe shares rise as customers embrace its Creative Cloud
Thanks to more customers subscribing to its Creative Cloud suite, Adobe Systems Inc. Tuesday reported second-quarter profits that topped Wall Street’s expectations and made investors happy. The company’s shares rose 3.6 percent, to $146, in after-hours trading Tuesday after rising about a half percentage …
Report: BMC Software mulls leveraged buyout of CA
Digital enterprise management provider BMC Software Inc. is considering a leveraged buyout of rival software company CA Inc., according to a new report. Bloomberg, which first reported the story, said the two companies have approached banks with a view to putting together …
NTT Com claims world’s first completely software-defined network
Telecommunications provider NTT Communications Corp. is launching what it claims is the world’s largest software-defined wide area network with coverage in more than 190 countries. NTT Com said its SD-WAN Service Portfolio is the first “100 percent software-defined network” in the world, …
Apple easily tops Gartner’s new list of the top 100 tech companies
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. today published a report ranking the top information technology industry companies based on their worldwide revenues, and it’s little surprise who’s on top: Apple Inc. But how long will it reign? Gartner said the list is designed to help …
Former EMC boss Joe Tucci becomes special adviser at VC firm 83North
Joe Tucci, the former longtime EMC Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, has no intentions of taking it easy in his golden years. The 69-year-old veteran tech industry exec has just landed a new role as a special adviser at the venture …
Google makes it easier to train deep learning AI models with Tensor2Tensor
The Google Brain team wants to help data scientists get their deep learning projects off the ground more easily with the release into open source today of a new software code library called Tensor2Tensor. It’s designed to help researchers replicate the results of …
Microsoft announces semiannual release schedule for Windows Server
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced a big change to the way new releases of its Windows Server platform will be rolled out. The company said that going forward, it will release newly updated versions of its data center operating system on a …