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CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?
Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, originated 91 percent of all cyberattacks ...
VMware crushes earnings forecasts on larger deals and diversified products
Updated: Amid a quarterly earnings season that’s a mixed bag for infrastructure players, VMware Inc. furnished the best evidence yet that it has successfully navigated the transition from server specialist to strategic information technology partner. The virtualization giant today reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profits that both handily beat analyst estimates on the strength of ...
With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions
VMware Inc. today is rolling out what it says is the most significant upgrade ever to its NSX network virtualization software, one that decouples the network from the VMware hypervisor. The upgrade essential decouples the network from VMware’s hypervisor, the software that runs virtual machines, or computers emulated in software. VMware’s NSX-T Data Center 2.4 and ...
HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls
Updated: Despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and raising its 2019 forecast Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Friday saw its shares move sideways as investors digested some mixed results. Initially HPE’s stock rose more than 3 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the veteran enterprise computing company’s profit per share jumped 31 percent from a year ago, to ...
Talend shares surge 20% on strong cloud revenue growth
Updated: Shares of Talend SA jumped surged nearly 14 percent in after-hours trading today on an unexpectedly narrower loss in its fiscal fourth quarter. The company also showed good progress in its March to the cloud, with sales of Talend Cloud reaching 25 percent of new annual recurring revenue or ARR in the quarter and ...
AI SPECIAL REPORT
IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud
With public cloud providers competing to be the favored destination for their customers’ artificial intelligence projects, IBM Corp. has decided to bring its Watson technology out from behind the Big Blue firewall for the first time. At its flagship Think 2019 conference in San Francisco today, IBM is announcing that Watson will now be available ...
AI SPECIAL REPORT
Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties
The idea sounded good in theory: Rather than giving away full-boat scholarships, colleges could optimize their use of scholarship money to attract students willing to pay most of the tuition costs. So instead of offering a $20,000 scholarship to one needy student, they could divide the same amount into four scholarships of $5,000 each and ...
FEATURE
Orange is the new gold: Telemarketing firm molds inmates into sales stars
Like many telemarketing professionals, Teresa Peterson works a nine-hour day, supporting a team of professionals working phones, building heat maps for her client’s account-based marketing program and staying on top of sales leads until deals are closed. But unlike most telemarketing professionals, at the end of the day Peterson returns home to a bed at ...
Zillow awards $1M to winners of data science contest that drew 3,800 entrants
Closing out a nearly two-year-long data science competition, Zillow Inc. awarded a $1 million prize Wednesday to a loosely federated group of three people who figured out how to beat its home price-estimating benchmark model by 13 percent. Zillow said the techniques will reduce the company’s Zestimate’s current nationwide error rate of 4.5 percent to ...
IBM boosts data scientists with certification and apprenticeship program
IBM Corp. is attempting to give the data science profession a boost by championing a new certification and launching an internal apprenticeship program today that gives young people with no information technology experience a chance to become professional data scientists. The U.S. currently has more than 150,000 unfilled data science jobs, according to last summer’s ...