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Amazon and Google race to sign up new cloud customers
Public cloud infrastructure providers Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC both announced new marquee customers today as they step up their battle capture big name clients. AWS says it has agreed a deal with the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing to run its cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads on its ...
IBM brings its Db2 database into the modern AI-driven era
IBM Corp. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its Db2 relational database management system that should help make the 36-year-old software more useful in today’s data-driven world. Introduced in 1983, Db2 is the world’s sixth most popular database and therefore the relational engine of choice at many large enterprises, according to DB-Engines. The platform is ...
Box takes another battering after lowering revenue guidance
Cloud storage company Box Inc. took a real battering today, with its stock falling almost 14% in after-hours trading. The reason for the drop was an updated full-year revenue outlook that fell well short of analysts’ estimates. Box actually did quite well in the quarter just gone. It reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs ...
Google’s Gmail, YouTube, other services go offline in four-hour cloud outage
Google LLC has picked itself up and dusted itself off after four-hour cloud outage that took several of its main internet services offline on Sunday. The outage began at around 12.20 p.m. PDT when services including Gmail, YouTube and G Suite as well as outside services became inaccessible to thousands of users. Google later blamed ...
AWS announces new IoT services and managed Kafka offering
Amazon Web Services Inc. Thursday announced the general availability of several new services that it announced during its annual re:Invent conference last November. Two of the new services are focused on the “internet of things,” which is an area that AWS said it’s looking to expand into in order to satisfy its customer’s demands to ...
Nutanix stock crumbles on revenue miss, lower guidance
Updated: Shares of data storage company Nutanix Inc. were in free-fall today after it missed expectations on revenue and posted guidance for the next quarter that was some way short of Wall Street’s forecasts. The company, which sells hyperconverged information technology infrastructure that integrates compute, storage and networking components, reported a third-quarter loss before certain ...
Dell’s stock plunges as server and storage sales slump
Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. is back in the spotlight as a publicly traded company, but some might be wishing it wasn’t after it posted mixed earnings that saw revenue come up short on a decline in infrastructure sales. The company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.45 per share ...
AWS announces general availability of its document reading service Textract
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Textract service, which uses machine learning to extract text and data from documents including tables and forms, is now generally available. Textract was first announced during the AWS re:Invent conference in November as one of several new machine learning services designed for use by people with no expertise in the subject. Amazon ...
NXP Semiconductor to acquire Marvell’s wireless business assets
Computer chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV said today it’s buying Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s wireless connectivity business unit for $1.76 billion as it steps up its bid to grab more market share in the automotive industry. The transaction is expected to close by the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approvals. Netherlands-based NXP plans to ...
NetApp acquires Israeli data protection startup Cognigo for $70M
Israeli media today reported that data storage company NetApp Inc. has quietly acquired a startup called D.Day Labs Ltd. that does business as Cognigo for about $70 million. NetApp hasn’t said anything officially, but Cognigo confirmed the news itself, first on Twitter and later in a blog posted to LinkedIn by Chief Executive Officer Guy Leibovitz. Cognigo, ...
