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Truist Financial Corp. is on a mission to change the way banking is done, and it’s looking to cloud platform providers to help it along. The firm, which was created when BB&T Corp. acquired SunTrust Banks Inc. in late 2019, is banking …
Oracle cloud enhancements stress flexibility and simplicity
Oracle Corp. is expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offering today with new compute, networking and storage services and enhanced flexibility to control costs. The new services automatically optimize resources to match application requirements and provide a simpler price structure. Oracle has been growing …
Redis ups JSON support and targets document database leaders
Redis Ltd., which sells a commercial version of the in-memory database management system, today announced full support for JavaScript Object Notation with the release of RedisJSON 2.0. The new version comes with native indexing, querying and full-text search capabilities of JSON documents, …
Databricks expands vertical thrust with healthcare platform
Distributed data analytics vendor Databricks Inc. today debuted its third vertical-industry product in as many months with a platform for healthcare and life sciences. The Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences provides datasets and libraries for healthcare-specific applications of data management, …
Zoho makes its low-code toolset more enterprise-friendly
Zoho Corp., which develops a wide range of business productivity applications delivered as a service, today updated its low-code Zoho Creator Platform with features intended to support a broader range of uses. Zoho, which claims its low-code suite enables deployment up to …
Snowflake shares clobbered on weak sales guidance
Shares of cloud data warehousing company Snowflake Inc. were hammered in after-hours trading after the company reported revenue and profit for the fourth quarter that beat analysts’ estimates but issued guidance that pointed to a slowdown in its torrid growth rate. The fourth-quarter …
Ukrainian tech leaders defiant in the face of Russian onslaught
A few employees of VRnetio OU, a developer of virtual software for the real estate industry, spent last weekend filling empty bottles with gasoline for use as Molotov cocktails. “It would demoralize our army if businesspeople started to run away,” said Chief …
Dremio unveils ‘forever free’ tools for data lake analytics
Dremio Corp., developer of an SQL query engine that works on the semistructured data repositories called data lakes, is kicking off its Subsurface conference today with what it says is the most significant set of new and updated products in its history …
Connecteam pockets $120M to connect ‘deskless’ workers
Connecteam, a startup that provides technology to connect “deskless” employees, today announced a new $120 million funding round that brings its total cash raised to $160 million. The Tel Aviv-based firm said it will use the Series C funding to grow its …
VMware beats profit estimates but weak guidance sends shares down
VMWare Inc. reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenues that met analysts’ estimates and higher-than-expected profit along thanks to strong growth in its software-as-a-service and subscription offerings. However, the computer virtualization giant’s forecast for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 disappointed analysts and sent the …