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In a bid to make graph databases more accessible, Neo4j gets a revamp
Bidding to keep its market-leading graph database engine out in front against new competition, Neo Technology Inc. today is unveiling an integration and visualization layer on top of its platform that adds analytics, data import/transformation, visualization and data discovery to its core engine. The Native Graph Platform is said to make it easier for non-graph ...
Cray and Microsoft will deliver supercomputer power from Azure data centers
Seeking to expand the universe of potential customers for its supercomputers beyond government labs and academic institutions, Cray Inc. today said it has struck an exclusive deal with Microsoft Corp. that will provide dedicated Cray systems in Microsoft Azure data centers. Supercomputers are used for processor-intensive tasks that exceed even the capabilities of high-end mainframes. Typical ...
CloudHealth’s new CEO seeks to solve for multicloud complexity
There are a lot of reasons for companies to use more than one cloud computing infrastructure provider. A multivendor strategy enables them to take advantage of deals and discounts, shift workloads to the most appropriate platform and leverage the unique strength and tools of each provider. But going multicloud adds to complexity, and that’s where CloudHealth ...
Survey finds CIOs are sweet on machine learning
Chief information officers have bought into the promise of machine learning. Now they need to figure out how to make it work. That’s the bottom line of a survey of 500 CIOs by service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. The research found that 89 percent of CIOs are using or planning to use machine learning, nearly 90 ...
IBM’s shares rocket as it slows a five-year-long revenue decline
Updated: IBM Corp. extended its string of revenue declines to 22 consecutive quarters, but just barely, boosting investor sentiment and sending shares up nearly 5 percent in after-hours trading to their highest level in more than a year. Third-quarter revenues of $19.2 billion were just 0.4 percent lower than a year ago, the smallest quarterly ...
Instana brings machine learning to microservices performance management
Instana Inc. is bringing artificial intelligence to software container and and microservices management, saying it can automatically discover, model and monitor large-scale container networks while predicting slowdowns and failures at subsecond speed. The company, which said it has raised $14 million and has 80 paying customers, was founded by a group of application performance management ...
Kong hopes to be king of enterprise API management
Application programming interface development manager Kong Inc., formerly called Mashape Inc., today is announcing the availability of its Kong Enterprise Edition microservices API abstraction platform for enterprise development. The company, which recently merged its marketplace with that of API distributor Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. to create what it claims is the world’s largest resource of its kind, said its ...
Tech earnings preview: The good times will keep rolling, at least for now
Tech earnings season kicks off this week with many of the giants set to report third-quarter results, and the tea-leaf readers mostly expect the rich to get richer. IBM Corp. will lead off the enterprise and emerging tech earning parade on Tuesday, and investors and customers both are hoping it can break its more than five-year-long streak ...
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Who owns data from the ‘internet of things’? That’s about to become a very big deal
Teletrac Navman US Ltd. was deeply into the “internet of things” long before it was a hot buzzword. The fleet tracking and management software company gathers detailed information on more than 500,000 vehicles for 40,000 customer organizations across six continents. Black boxes installed in cars, trucks and heavy machinery continually poll embedded sensors to learn ...
Gigamon tightens network security integration with Splunk and Phantom
Gigamon Inc. is offering its customers free integration with Splunk Inc.’s log analysis and Phantom Cyber Corp.’s security platform to reduce the time needed to detect and respond to cyber threats. The Gigamon IPFix Metadata Application for Splunk enables Splunk user to ingest network metadata generated by Gigamon’s GigaSecure network monitoring platform. The Gigamon Adaptive Response Application for Splunk enables ...
