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On theCUBE with Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey: What’s next after the IPO?
When cloud computing company Nutanix Inc. went public on Sept. 30 and its shares shot up 131 percent the first day, it helped ignite hopes that the long drought of technology initial public offerings could be ending. That showing also gave the maker of hyperconverged systems that combine computing and storage into one software-driven appliance ...
With Home, Pixel phones and Daydream VR viewer, Google aims to lead tech’s AI-driven future
Google Inc. today introduced possibly its largest array of major new hardware products ever at one time, yet another indication that the search giant aims to hit every available consumer technology touchpoint to maintain its growth. But it’s also clearer than ever that the shiny new hardware lineup (above) unveiled at a “Made by Google” ...
Salesforce continues acquisition spree with $700 million Krux purchase
Still hungry after $4 billion in acquisitions in the past year, Salesforce.com Inc. today said it’s buying the ad tech firm Krux Digital Inc. for $700 million. San Francisco-based Krux, which operates a data management platform that helps marketers target pitches to particular audiences across devices and marketing channels, said combining with Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud ...
Messaging mayhem: Slack rival Facebook at Work coming soon
In yet another addition to a growing roster of business-oriented social networks, Facebook at Work will launch next month, according to several reports. Facebook has been testing its enterprise messaging competitor to the likes of Slack Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Yammer and Skype since early 2015 with some 400 or so customers. A Facebook executive ...
Iguazio launches Enterprise Data Cloud service to speed Big Data
Iguazio today is introducing what it calls a data platform-as-a-service, with an aim to untangle the mess of technologies that has hampered Big Data projects in large companies. The Israeli company’s Enterprise Data Cloud is essentially a software orchestra conductor that consolidates data into a repository and makes it available to many applications as files, ...
Baidu announces benchmarks to rate deep learning hardware
The branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning has led to breakthroughs in speech and image recognition, partly thanks to an almost accidental discovery that certain chips such as graphics processing units work really well for it. But just how well has been hard to measure. So today, the Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc. is ...