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SAP reports strong results despite a narrow miss on cloud revenue
SAP SE today reported higher third-quarter revenue and operating profit, bolstered by continued momentum in its cloud business and improving profit margins. The enterprise resource planning giant also guided full-year operating profit toward the top of its earlier forecast. Although cloud revenue came in slightly below estimates, the company reaffirmed that cloud is the foundation ...
Exclusive: Panzura adds file-level geofencing and native S3 support to its global cloud
Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, is adding native Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 application programming interface compatibility and file-level geofencing to its CloudFS platform in release 8.6, announced today. The updates aim to enhance data management and protection for organizations managing data within defined geographic zones. They also seek to eliminate ...
Exclusive: Hyphen AI raises $5M to automate cloud configuration for developers
Hyphen AI Inc., a startup focused on eliminating the DevOps tax from software development, has launched its first product and raised $5 million in seed funding. Hyphen Deploy is a cloud deployment platform that uses artificial intelligence to turn developer intent into production-ready infrastructure. It eliminates the need for scripts, configuration files, Helm charts and ...
Gartner predicts AI will upend job markets, trigger lawsuits and rewire global commerce by 2027
Generative artificial intelligence tools and AI agents will trigger a $58 billion shakeup in the software market, opening the door for new competitors to enter as customers will be less locked in by legacy formats. Within two years, three-quarters of hiring processes will include some form of AI proficiency testing as AI’s influence grows on ...
Dell upgrades AI Data Platform with performance boosts
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a slate of enhancements to its AI Data Platform with the aim of helping enterprises wrangle fragmented data and accelerate AI deployment. The updates include deeper strategic partnerships with key players like Nvidia Corp., Elasticsearch BV and Starburst Data Inc. At the heart of the announcement is Dell’s modular AI ...
Exclusive: Provus launches AI platform for services quoting
Provus Inc., the maker of a platform that helps service-based businesses with their quoting and sales processes, today launched Provus AI, calling it the first agentic artificial intelligence system purpose-built for services quoting. Designed to automate, optimize and accelerate the revenue lifecycle for complex, services-based engagements, Provus AI includes separate modules that help organizations optimize ...
IBM partners with Nvidia rival Groq to accelerate AI deployment
IBM Corp. and Groq Inc. today announced a strategic partnership aimed at speeding enterprise deployment of agentic artificial intelligence by combining IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate with Groq’s hardware-accelerated inference technology. The collaboration will give IBM clients access to Groq’s language processing unit through IBM’s platform with the aim of reducing the cost of low-latency AI at ...
Oracle’s AI Agent Studio gets enterprise controls, LLM flexibility and deterministic workflows
Oracle Corp. is expanding the scope of its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications platform for building, testing and deploying artificial intelligence agents in one of a series of announcements at a sold-out Oracle AI World this week. The company said today it’s doubling down on its belief that the enterprise future of AI is ...
Red Hat AI 3 targets production inference and agents
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today announced Red Hat AI 3, calling it a major evolution of its hybrid cloud-native artificial intelligence that can power enterprise projects in production at scale. Red Hat AI 3 is designed to manage AI workloads that span datacenters, clouds and edge environments while maintaining flexibility and control. A hybrid ...
Oracle adds AI capabilities to core database and launches a lakehouse platform
Oracle Corp. today announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, both aimed at supporting artificial intelligence training and inference across cloud and on-premises environments. Oracle said the releases continue its strategy of integrating artificial intelligence capabilities directly into its core data platforms. Oracle AI Database 26ai is a long-term ...