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What you missed in Big Data: The chatbots are multiplying
Enterprise technology vendors are rushing to get on the chatbot bandwagon. Last week saw IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. add their names to the list by announcing a partnership to deliver artifical intelligence services for the latter’s collaboration software. According to the companies, the development effort will focus primarily on providing “real-time advice and handling ...
What you missed in Cloud: Addressing hybrid infrastructure
When Alphabet Inc. launched a cloud monitoring tool in March that works not only with its own infrastructure-as-a-service platform but also Amazon Inc.’s, it unwittingly started a trend. In response, Jeff Bezos’ firm rolled out a new version of its AWS command line client last week that similarly provides the ability to coordinate management activities across ...
HR giant Workday buys education startup to get into employee training
When father-son duo Jim and Charlie Stigler founded Zaption Inc. in 2012, they set out to create a platform where teachers can easily share educational videos with students. But four years and numerous academic customers later, the outfit is becoming part of Workday Inc. in a move that will see its focus shift to an entirely different market: ...
Jury orders Oracle to cough up $3BN for violating support deal with HPE
The past few weeks have been rough on Oracle Corp.’s legal team. First, the database maker lost a high-profile copyright battle with Alphabet Inc. over the use of Java APIs in Android. And yesterday, a San Jose jury ruled that it must pay $3 billion in damages to Hewlett Packard Enterprise for breaking a hardware support ...
Seagate to lay off 1,600 workers in latest cost-cutting move
Seagate Technology PLC is set to become a much leaner company by the end of the year. The disk maker revealed in a regulatory filing this week that it’s planning to cut 1,600 positions over the next six months as part of an effort to trim operating expenses. Chief financial officer David Morton Jr. expects ...
Watson chatbots on the way? IBM and Cisco enter AI-focused collaboration alliance
After years of cooperation in the data center market, IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are extending their partnership to enterprise collaboration. The vendors today announced plans to link their respective communications products with one another and add artificial intelligence functionality from Watson into the mix to automate certain tasks. Ed Brill, the head of ...
Red Hat’s monitoring service can now peer inside your containers
Containers are the main focus at Red Hat Inc.’s customer conference in San Francisco this week. The company kicked off the event yesterday by launching a tool for finding security issues in Docker instances, and is following up this morning with a new iteration of its IT monitoring service that can similarly identify maintenance issues. ...
AWS launches its ultra-scalable file storage service into general availability
After more than a year of testing and tweaking, Amazon Inc. is finally making its Elastic File System (EFS) generally available. The service is designed to provide an easy-to-use storage backend for the growing number of on-premise workloads that organizations are migrating to AWS. More specifically, Amazon built EFS to provide interoperability with traditional network-attached ...
Axcient targets non-production data with new converged storage service
For every important application in an organization, there are dozens of snapshots, clones and other non-production workloads bogging down the storage team. An estimated 70 percent of the enterprise IT budgets goes towards maintaining such information, a burden that Axcient Inc. promises to reduce considerably with its newest service. Fusion, as it’s called, is a cloud-based storage platform that provides ...
AWS finally comes to India
Better late than never. Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. and a month behind DigitalOcean Inc., Amazon Inc. has finally brought its cloud platform to India. The company will now provide infrastructure services to local organizations from two Availability Zones in busy Mumbai, which was incidentally also one of the first regional expansion destinations for Redmond. There ...
