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Dell customers can now manage their own APEX storage
Dell Technologies Inc. is broadening the range of options for customers of its APEX Data Storage Services with a new option that allows them to maintain operational control of file and block storage services with Dell providing support and upgrades for a subscription fee. The announcement continues the evolution of APEX as Dell’s form of ...
Strong cloud growth propels Oracle results
Oracle Corp. reported strong revenue growth in its fiscal first quarter, beating analysts’ estimates and bucking the recent trend of mixed financial results by enterprise software companies. Profit declined in large part because of the $1.7 billion in capital investments the company made to build out its cloud infrastructure. Total revenue rose 23% in constant ...
Oracle brings its souped-up MySQL database to the Amazon cloud
Oracle today is following through on its announced plans to make its MySQL HeatWave database management systems available on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade to the popular open-source database engine that combines online transaction processing, analytics, machine learning and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL instance. Oracle said ...
MariaDB, Qlik team up to encourage migration from older databases
MariaDB Corp. and cloud data integration firm Qlik Inc. are teaming up to make it simpler for companies to migrate from older database management systems to MariaDB’s Enterprise Server, Xpand distributed SQL database or SkySQL cloud database service. MariaDB, which sells a commercial version of the open-source MariaDB DBMS, said its engine can do the ...
Ambient AI adds 25 new behaviors to its image threat detection library for video surveillance
Ambient AI Inc., developer of physical security software that uses image recognition to identify threats captured on security cameras, today announced that it has added 25 new behaviors to its threat detection library. That brings the total number of visual scenarios it can now analyze to more than 150. The new behaviors include the ability to ...
Livestorm aims for Zoom’s videoconferencing stronghold with new enterprise features
Videoconferencing platform Livestorm Inc. today is announcing a slate of new features aimed at enterprise customers. They include integration with popular marketing automation platforms, expansion of the maximum meeting size to 3,000 attendees, simplified billing and reporting, and new security features. The six-year-old firm, which has raised more than $39 million, positions itself as a soup-to-nuts ...
Red Sox seek to reinvent the fan experience at America’s most beloved ballpark™
The Boston Red Sox are so proud of their 110-year-old stadium that the team has trademarked the slogan “America’s most beloved ballpark” to describe it. But although watching a game from one of Fenway Park’s 37,673 seats may provoke a twinge of nostalgia, getting into and around the place can be a bit of a ...
Zoom adds ‘bring your own key’ encryption to its conferencing service
Continuing to address security issues that emerged during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom Video Communications Inc. has added support for customer-provided encryption to its popular videoconferencing service. Zoom Customer Managed Key is aimed primarily at customers in heavily regulated industries like healthcare and financial services. It comes on the heels of increased ...
Nutanix CEO says demand slowdown hasn’t materialized
While basking in the glow of a fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report that blew away analysts’ expectations, Nutanix Inc. CEO Rajiv Ramaswami is remaining cautious about predicting an end to the supply chain shortages that caused the maker of hyperconverged infrastructure software to cut forecasts for the quarter just three months ago. The supply of hardware ...
Ahana throws its weight behind Meta’s new Velox unified execution engine
Ahana Cloud Inc., developer of a managed version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today said it’s making significant commitments to supporting further development of the Velox open-source database acceleration library initially developed by Meta Platforms Inc. The company joins Intel Corp. and ByteDance Ltd. as primary contributors to the project, which was announced today. Released ...