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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is adding user profiles, self-provisioning and monitoring to its GreenLake composable infrastructure platform, bringing the on-premises offering closer in function to a public cloud. The new HPE GreenLake Central option announced today enables user self-service through a unified …
AWS impresses with its latest line of custom-made cloud processors
For a company that started out selling books, Amazon.com Inc. is demonstrating that it knows a thing or two about microprocessors as well. The e-commerce giant’s cloud computing arm today rolled out the next generation of the microprocessors that will power some …
Surf’s up! The next wave of cloud migration is about to hit
Founded nearly a century ago, defense contractor Raytheon Co. wrestles with the same kind of legacy infrastructure burden as any longstanding company, but that hasn’t stopped it from embracing the cloud. For a recent project, the company adopted the U.S. Air Force’s …
HPE targets cloud migration for legacy apps with Kubernetes-based platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is combining technology from two recent acquisitions into a container platform that it says can run both cloud-native and non-cloud-native applications. The HPE Container Platform, which is being introduced today at the KubeCon 2019 conference in San Diego, …
As cloud security improves, a weak link emerges: people
Last summer Capital One Financial Corp. was the victim of a massive data breach encompassing more than 100 million credit card applications and revealing 140,000 Social Security numbers. The cause: a misconfigured web application firewall, which is an appliance or software application …
With platform overhaul, Looker seeks to go beyond business intelligence
A pending acquisition by Google LLC isn’t slowing down Looker Data Sciences Inc. The business intelligence company today announced sweeping enhancements to its namesake platform that overhaul the user interface, improve integration with external applications and position it to go beyond visualizations to …
Red Hat brings machine learning to its process automation suite
Red Hat Inc. Friday updated its Red Hat Process Automation Manager with machine learning-based predictive modeling capabilities and a variety of user interface enhancements. The software suite, which was previously called JBoss Business Process Management Suite, combines BPM with business rules management …
Grafana bags $24 million to advance its open-source ‘observability’ suite
Grafana Labs said today it has raised $24 million in new funding to advance its suite of open-source observability software platforms. In addition to the Series A round, the company announced the appointment of three new executives, including a chief operating officer. The …
ServiceNow shares soar as investors warm to CEO changeover
Shares of ServiceNow Inc. soared in after-hours trading today on revenues and earnings that topped Wall Street estimates, combined with a lovefest conference call to introduce new Chief Executive Bill McDermott to analysts. The information technology services management company reported earnings of $1.03 …
Former SAP CEO McDermott to take the reins at ServiceNow
Less than two weeks after his surprise announcement that he’s stepping down as chief executive of SAP SE after nine years at the helm, Bill McDermott is already on to his next thing: president and CEO of information technology services management company …