Even in the dawning cloud computing era, where so much data is ostensibly easy to access, sharing critical business data among companies is still surprisingly hard. That’s the problem Snowflake Computing Inc. aims to solve with what it calls a “data sharehouse.” The San Mateo, California-based startup today announced its neatly named new offering as ...

Oracle Corp.’s move to embrace cloud computing gained more ground today as it closed out its fiscal year with another better-than-expected earnings report driven by cloud revenues. The database and business software giant reported a profit of 89 cents a share before certain costs such as stock compensation, up from 81 cents a share ago, on ...

Hoping to recharge its declining networking business, Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a new edition of its foundation network switching equipment along with a new subscription plan for its services, both aimed at making it more intuitive for its customers to manage data on their corporate networks. The new Catalyst 9000 series (below) is the ...

Investment in artificial intelligence startups is on a tear as venture capitalists and corporate investors scramble to stake out a leadership position in what could be the driving trend in technology for decades to come. The financial interest in AI, machine learning and related technologies is hardly new. CB Insights has tracked some $18.4 billion ...

In another sign that cybersecurity remains a hot investment area, cloud security startup Illumio Inc. today announced it has raised $125 million in a new round of funding led by a customer, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The Series D funding round comes just two years after a $100 million Series C round, bringing the total ...

Two years after it first aimed to go public and nine months after it filed confidentially for an initial public offering, computer storage provider Tintri Inc. is finally going to sell shares to public. The Mountain View, California-based company issued a public filing Thursday to raise $100 million in the IPO. But that’s likely a ...

Nvidia Corp. has signed up four of the world’s largest makers of computers to adopt its graphics chip-powered server design for artificial intelligence work in the most demanding “hyperscale” data centers, the company announced Tuesday. The so-called original design manufacturers, or ODMs, are the four major Taiwanese makers of computers and other electronic products: Hon ...

Despite its early success with its digital assistant Siri, Apple Inc. has trailed its big technology rivals in artificial intelligence. Now, according to one report, it’s working on a dedicated AI chip to help remedy that situation. A report from Bloomberg today said Apple’s processor, internally called the Apple Neural Engine, would provide improved services such ...

Tiny brains will be embedded in everything, our bodies’ own microbes will prevent the next plague, and the Trump administration will sue Amazon.com Inc. and other tech giants for antitrust violations. Those are three of the hottest trends coming in technology in the next five years, according to five venture capitalists who made their predictions ...

After Nutanix Inc.’s shares tanked 14 percent March 2 when it issued a weak outlook, the maker of computer virtualization and storage appliances and software had something to prove this quarter. In short, it did. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $60.8 million, or 42 cents a share, ...