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With AI-powered Activity Stream and Feed, Box aims to be the enterprise content hub
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 ...
Google opens its cloud services for Kubernetes project with $9M grant
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 ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
VMware expands cloud services on AWS, and AWS brings RDS database to VMware
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 ...
Crypto crash: Despite a strong quarter, Nvidia shares fall on disappointing forecast
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 ...
Google adds in-app messaging and more to its Firebase mobile platform
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 ...
Cisco shares jump 6% on yet another quarter of revenue growth
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 ...
Lawsuit accuses Oracle of misleading investors on cloud computing growth
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 ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Google reportedly talking with partners to bring its cloud to China
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 ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Amazon beats profit forecast thanks to expense control and – what else? – cloud computing
Once again, cloud computing as well as strength in core retail operations helped lift Amazon.com Inc.’s profits in its latest quarter above the already heady forecasts of Wall Street. The retail and cloud computing giant today reported a second-quarter net profit of $2.5 billion, or $5.07 per share, up from just $197 million a year ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
In conversation: AWS serverless chief Tim Wagner peers at the future of cloud computing
As the lead story of SiliconANGLE’s Cloud Special Report makes apparent, serverless computing is the next big disruption the cloud is bringing to computing, freeing software developers from the hassle of managing hardware, software and networking technologies. Essentially, serverless technology executes software functions automatically based upon an event triggered by a human or by a program, ...









