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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 ...
Puppet bids to take automation enterprisewide with ‘biggest launch ever’
Puppet Inc. is bidding for a bigger share of the corporate systems management pie this week. The company is offering improved scalability for its enterprise automation platform, an open-source, agentless product — that is, one that doesn’t require installing a software agent — that customers can use to get started with Puppet automation. It’s also ...
Workday adds analytics and anonymous benchmarks to cloud ERP platform
The fruits of Workday Inc.‘s 2016 acquisition of business intelligence startup Platfora Inc. will become clearer to customers today as the financial and human capital management software vendor introduces a suite of analytical features that synch up closely with its core products. Workday is also announcing general availability of a cloud benchmark service that provides customers with metrics collected ...
With new strategy, Dell will invest $1B into the ‘internet of things’
Dell Technologies Inc. may be late to the “internet of things” party, but it has brought plenty of friends. Leveraging the numerous acquisitions, partnerships and investments it has made over the past few years, the company today is outlining an internet of things strategy anchored by what it calls the “distributed core,” in which information ...