Updated: Two big-data pioneers, Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc., today announced what they called a merger of relative equals, saying they’ll combine their companies into a new entity with about $720 million in annual revenue. The all-stock deal, really closer financially to an acquisition by the somewhat larger Cloudera, signals an acceleration of a long-simmering consolidation in ...

Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing unit chips have become the foundation of the burgeoning field of machine learning, which uses software roughly emulating parts of how the brain works to enable computers to learn on their own. GPUs’ ability to run many tasks at once in parallel at has led to recent breakthroughs in speech and ...

Collaborative file-sharing giant Box Inc. kicked off its annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco today with a series of new features aimed at building out its vision of serving as the main content hub for enterprises. “Users are looking for one content layer across everything,” one that spans the wide range of applications they’re using ...

Kubernetes, the software that manages the deployment of software containers, has grown in usage like a weed since Google LLC announced it in 2014. That’s because containers have become enormously popular for allowing developers to create one version of their software that can run on many operating systems and servers, and Kubernetes standardized the process ...

Updated: On the eve of this week’s VMworld in Las Vegas, conference host VMware Inc. Sunday night debuted several new technologies and some lower prices for its cloud software suite atop Amazon Web Services Inc. The new services are an expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS launched a year ago. At VMworld. They’re aimed at ...

Nvidia Corp. has been flying high for years thanks to big demand for its graphics chips in gaming, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, but that means even a small dip in altitude can upset investors. That’s what happened today, when the Santa Clara, California-based company reported its fiscal second-quarter results and said revenue from cryptomining systems ...

Ever since Google LLC bought the Firebase mobile app database service in 2014, it has been adding more capabilities to make it a full-fledged development platform for creating mobile and web apps that can then run on, for example, Google’s cloud computing platform. Today, it’s announcing new capabilities aimed at making Firebase more useful not ...

Updated: Cisco Systems Inc. showed a little more traction today in its attempt to become more of a subscription- and software-driven business as revenue grew year-over-year for the third straight quarter.   The computer networking giant said fiscal fourth-quarter revenue rose 6 percent, to $12.8 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet had reckoned $12.77 billion, in ...

Almost five months after Oracle Corp. surprised investors with more disappointing growth in its cloud computing services, a lawsuit filed Friday claims executives lied about the nature of that growth. The suit, filed by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP on behalf of the City of Sunrise [Florida] Firefighters’ Pension Fund, alleges that executives issued “false and misleading” press ...

It’s no secret that Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has been angling to get the company back into China, and now those efforts may extend to its cloud services. According to anonymous sources cited in a report Friday afternoon by Bloomberg, the company is in talks with internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., cloud and ...