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SAP endorses Red Hat Linux as strategic cloud platform
Just one day after signing a partnership deal that will make its flagship operating system available on the Oracle Corp. cloud, Red Hat Inc. and Oracle rival SAP SE said they’re cooperating to “significantly increase” SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat said SAP is in the process of migrating ...
Trulioo unites business and personal identity verification in one platform
Well-funded identify verification company Trulioo Inc. today launched a unified global platform for personal and business verification. The company also introduced a no-code workflow builder and low-code integrations. Customers will now be able to use a single platform for identity information matching, document verification, utility data for proof of address, business verification, watchlist screening and ...
Partnership lands Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Oracle Cloud
Red Hat Inc. today announced a nonexclusive alliance with Oracle Corp. under which Red Hat Enterprise Linux will become a supported operating system on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. IBM-owned Red Hat said the deal is significant in that 90% of Fortune 500 companies currently use products from at least one of the two companies. Standardizing on ...
Cybersecurity startup Sentra raises $30 million to help firms find and classify all their cloud data
Israeli cloud security startup Sentra Inc. today announced that it has completed a $30 million funding round, bringing its total capital raised to more than $53 million. The Series A financing comes just over four months after the company entered the U.S. market with technology that it says can discover all of an organization’s cloud data, classify ...
SAP to lay off 3,000 and sell Qualtrics stake as profits plunge
SAP SE said today it will lay off 3,000 people, or about 2.5% of its global workforce, following a steep fall in profits in the fourth quarter of 2022. The company expects to incur restructuring costs of between $272 million and $327 million in the first quarter of 2023 as a result but said the ...
Despite upbeat financial results, IBM plans to lay off 3,900
IBM Corp. delivered the kind of upbeat earnings report and forecast that’s been rare in the beleaguered technology industry of late but also said it will lay off 1.5% of its workforce, or about 3,900 employees, amid the gathering clouds of a likely global recession. Revenues of $16.69 billion fell slightly from $16.70 billion a ...
Despite revenue miss, Microsoft shares climb on hopes for improved cloud performance
After two straight quarters of disappointing earnings results, investors were heartened by signs that Microsoft Corp.’s cloud business is breaking out of the doldrums, but a weak forecast dulled their initial optimism. The software and cloud giant reported slightly better than expected revenues in its Intelligent Cloud business on overall revenues that came in barely ...
DevZero lands $26M funding to bridge divide between development and production environments
DevInfra Inc., which does business as DevZero, said today it has raised $26 million in a Series A funding round and announced the general availability of its Developer Environment Platform, which enables developers to write and test code in environments that exactly simulate production. Founded by former Uber Technologies Inc. engineers Debosmit Ray (pictured, left) ...
Enhanced compliance, tariff management features top updates to Oracle’s cloud supply chain suite
Oracle Corp. today added new logistics capabilities to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing suite aimed at reducing costs, improving accuracy, automating compliance and improving logistics flexibility. The user interface has been substantially revised using Oracle’s JavaScript Extension Toolkit, which is based on JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS3 and HTML5 design and development principles. Jet is ...
Microsoft deepens commitment to OpenAI in Azure cloud and enterprise products with reported $10B stake
The budding romance between Microsoft Corp. and red-hot startup OpenAI LLC grew cozier today with Microsoft’s announcement that it will make a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in specialized supercomputing infrastructure to support OpenAI’s research and also incorporate the startup’s models across its consumer and enterprise products. Billed as the third phase of a relationship that dates ...