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Oracle injects AI smarts into more cloud applications
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 ...
As its data cloud launches, iguazio nabs Grab as a marquee customer
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, ...
Unveiling AI acceleration software, Nvidia jumps into China market with big partners
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 shares rise as it beats and raises its earnings forecasts again
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 ...
With DataPlane, Hortonworks aims to help companies drowning in data lakes
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’s Larry Ellison pokes Amazon again with new cloud pricing plan
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 ...
The cloud war rages on: Amazon Web Services one-ups rivals with per-second pricing
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 ...
Cloudera rebounds on revenue and profit outlook, buys Fast Forward Labs
In its second quarter since going public in April, big-data firm Cloudera Inc. managed to beat expectations, reversing a first-quarter disappointment that saw its shares plunge 16 percent the next day. The company, which sells machine learning and data analytics software and services to manage huge amounts of data across computer systems, also revealed that it ...
GE’s Avitas Systems hopes to reinvent industrial inspection with AI from Nvidia
Inspecting industrial equipment such as oil rigs and electrical towers is a messy, expensive, time-consuming and dangerous undertaking. Nvidia Corp. and General Electric Co.’s Avitas Systems are looking to change all that. The two companies today announced that Avitas, which was formed by GE Ventures about four months ago, will use Nvidia’s graphics chip-powered computers ...
Team communications apps are out of control. With Stride, Atlassian aims to fix that
You’re on Slack every hour of the waking day, or maybe it’s HipChat, or Microsoft Corp.’s Teams, or even Facebook Inc.’s Workplace. You do Hangouts or Zoom or WebEx video conferencing several times a day. And you’ve still got an email inbox that never stops growing. That’s the time-consuming, scattered situation for workers that Atlassian ...









