In another attempt to make its cloud service relevant versus much larger rivals, Google LLC today introduced a new cloud database for software developers to store all the data used in their mobile and web apps. The Cloud Firestore is a so-called NoSQL database, a kind of database that handles less structured data than that ...

Business information technology spending isn’t really growing, and there’s little prospect for that to change, Oracle Chief Executive Mark Hurd told customers at the database and business software giant’s OpenWorld conference today in San Francisco. Of course, cloud computing itself may have a role in that lack of growth. Among the many appeals of moving ...

Eager to latch onto a hot trend, Oracle Corp. today introduced a cloud blockchain service that it hopes will help it vault past existing rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it has been seized upon in many industries as a way to provide tamper-proof ...

Oracle Corp. today announced that it’s extending artificial-intelligence smarts to many of its core business applications. These “Adaptive Intelligent Apps” will be built into existing Oracle cloud applications, in particular for cloud versions of its enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply chain management and customer experience applications. They’re intended to provide simpler ways to ...

Iguazio Systems Ltd. today launched its “continuous analytics” platform that it unveiled in concept over a year ago, promising a faster and simpler way to use massive amounts of data in real time The Israel-based company said its Unified Data Platform, which has been in testing by a number of companies such as stock exchanges, ...

Nvidia Corp., whose graphics chips are the basis for many recent advances in artificial intelligence, Monday night unveiled new software to accelerate AI work for applications ranging from self-driving cars to speech and image recognition. The company, which is opening one of its GPU Technology Conference Tuesday morning in Beijing with a keynote by Chief ...

Red Hat Inc., best-known for its long-running Linux operating software for corporate data centers and a bellwether for open-source software companies, just keeps on rolling. The company today reported a second-fiscal quarter profit of $96.9 million, or 53 cents a share, way above the $58.8 million, or 32 cents a share, it earned a year ...

When the term “data lake” was coined in 2011, the notion was that organizations needed a single pool for all their data, so it could be tapped for whatever analysis or other application it was needed for, instead of languishing in countless data siloes. But now, it’s common for enterprises to have multiple data lakes ...

Oracle Corp. went on the offensive again versus Amazon.com Inc. today with a new cloud pricing plan that gives discounts to Oracle database customers who move their databases to the cloud. Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison (pictured) said during an event at its Redwood City, California headquarters that while Oracle has matched Amazon ...

Hoping to stay ahead of hard-charging rivals in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said that starting next month, it will start charging for its computing services by the second. Competitors such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure have made hay over the per-minute billing they’ve offered for years, which they said ...