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Matt Hirsch and Tom Baran have an idea that they think could revolutionize everything from the minting of money to the printing of diaper packages. The two MIT Ph.D.s have developed a way to create high-quality digital images that resemble three-dimensional holograms …
AtScale moves its business intelligence abstraction platform to the cloud
AtScale Inc. today is releasing a cloud version of its business intelligence abstraction platform, claiming to simplify the process of provisioning a large-scale analytics environment using data that resides in a single cloud, multiple clouds or a combination. AtScale Cloud is available today in marketplaces …
Cisco opens up DNA Center to manage competitors’ equipment
Cisco Systems Inc. is announcing today that it will open up DNA Center, its centralized network control and management dashboard for the Cisco DNA intent-based networking system. Intent-based networking is an approach to network management that uses machine learning to configure networks …
Workday snaps up Adaptive Insights days before planned IPO
Just days before its planned initial public offering, corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has agreed to be bought by Workday Inc., a maker of financial and human resources cloud applications. Workday will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Adaptive Insights for $1.55 …
IBM courts enterprise hybrid cloud business with 18 new availability zones
Continuing its bid to capture a greater share of the market for enterprise hybrid clouds, IBM Corp. today announced the launch of 18 new “availability zones” for its Enterprise Cloud across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Availability zones are isolated regions within …
Guns or hammers? Big-data firms struggle with their role in responsible data use
Looker Inc.’s business intelligence software can be used to deploy education resources more effectively in inner-city neighborhoods, identify hot spots of violent crime and pinpoint income inequalities in the workforce. It can also be used for racial profiling, political gerrymandering and identifying …
Cloudera beats the Street, but weak outlook fails to excite wary investors
Cloudera Inc. beat revenue and earnings expectations for its fiscal 2019 first quarter, but failed to raise full-year expectations that it lowered in April, triggering a 40 percent drop in its stock price that day. It wasn’t nearly this bad this time, …
SAP and IBM marry their cloud services in a partnership aimed at private cloud deployments
IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced plans to launch an edition of the SAP Cloud Platform running on the IBM Cloud for private cloud deployments. The companies said the collaboration will help clients in regulated industries build new applications on the …
Instana extends application monitor to AWS Lambda serverless computing platform
Instana Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence-based monitoring tool for containerized microservice-based applications, has extended its ready to a broad range of Amazon Web Services Inc. products, including the Lambda serverless computing platform. Serverless computing abstracts information technology infrastructure away from applications, enabling …
Dell posts impressive revenue gains as storage business returns to growth
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue rose more than expected in its fiscal first quarter, sparking a 3 percent rise in its stock price in early trading today. Although the shares fell back to rise just a fraction of a point by the end …