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VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation 5.0 hybrid cloud platform is now available, touting improvements in scalability, security and deployment simplicity. The release, announced Thursday, includes the latest versions of the VMware vSphere hypervisor version 8.0 Update 1, vSAN storage virtualization layer 8.0 Update …
Dell’s revenue plunge was expected. The question is when growth will return
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue plunged 20% in its fiscal first quarter, but the results today beat lowered analysts’ estimates on both sales and profits. Shares gained about 1.5% today on an early release of the earnings statement about noon PDT, but they …
Coalition of AI leaders sees ‘societal-scale risks’ from the technology’s misuse
A statement issued today and signed by more than 375 computer scientists, academics and business leaders warns of profound risks of artificial intelligence misuse and says the potential problems posed by the technology be given the same urgency as pandemics and nuclear …
AI and automation headline Red Hat’s annual user fest
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat Inc. subsidiary today is kicking off its annual Red Hat Summit conference with the themes of “do more with less” and “scale for innovation” and a raft of enhancements to its core products that address both. It wouldn’t …
Red Hat turns its software supply chain practices into products
Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software supply-chain attacks are proliferating. At its annual Red Hat …
Red Hat gives Ansible a generative AI front end and adds stream processing features
Ansible, the open-source automation tool that is the leading software used to automate software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment, is getting real-time, event-driven processing capabilities and an artificial intelligence-enabled front end in a series of announcements by Red Hat Inc. this …
Will AI kill jobs? MIT professor says that depends on how it’s used
The number of nurse practitioners in the U.S. has grown from 40,000 in 1995 to 300,000 today and is expected to grow an additional 40% by 2030. Technology has contributed to this trend by enabling nurse practitioners to take on many tasks …
Kyndryl beats earnings estimates but shares fall on weak guidance
Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former services business unit of IBM Corp., fell more than 10% in early trading today as the company’s full-year revenue forecast issued Tuesday fell below analysts’ expectations. However, the company said it’s beating its goals on …
Qlik closes Talend acquisition, looks to grow its data integration footprint
Qlik Tech International AB today said announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend Inc., which was announced in January. The merged companies will be led by Qlik Chief Executive Mike Capone (pictured), who has spearheaded a campaign to build a data integration, …
HPE Ezmeral refresh broadens open-source support and now works with objects and streams
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is simplifying its Ezmeral data analytics portfolio, brushing up the user interface, expanding the selection of open-source tools it offers, integrating object and streaming data sources, and improving interoperability across multiple clouds. The company says it’s attacking …