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Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is taking the unusual step today of spinning off an independent company to build an edge processing platform, initially for the Japanese market. Cloudian, which has raised $173 million for what it calls its infinitely scalable …
Oracle cloud app refresh is all about AI and digital assistants
Oracle Corp. customers can expect to hear a lot about intelligent digital assistants and machine-driven insights as the company kicks off the first full day of its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this morning. Major updates to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Enterprise Performance …
Dremio unlocks cloud object stores for use in high-performance analytics
Dremio Corp., a developer of self-service analytics technology, says it has figured out how to unlock data in popular cloud stores for use in performance-sensitive data warehouse applications. The company’s new Data Lake Engines for Amazon Web Services, Azure and hybrid cloud …
Trifacta bags $100M to fuel global adoption of its ‘data wrangling’ technology
Trifacta Inc. received a huge endorsement for its “data wrangling” technology this morning, announcing a $100 million series E financing round that includes several new investors with international reach. The company has now raised a total of $224 million. The money will be …
Cloudreach expands migration assessment platform to handle multiple clouds
Cloudreach Ltd., a decade-old cloud consulting and managed service provider, is furthering its push into the software market with a new version of its Cloudamize cloud management software platform. The new version expands dependency assessment capabilities and extends cost optimization and management …
HPE containerizes machine learning model development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its reach into artificial intelligence development with a software platform that supports the full lifecycle of machine learning model construction and deployment using the self-contained software environments called containers. HPE ML Ops provides for the rapid …
Group says its blockchain-based encryption scheme makes passwords all but impossible to crack
The Tide Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s building an open-source framework for protecting personally identifiable information, has developed a blockchain-based encryption scheme that it claims is vastly more difficult to crack than other methods. Its approach uses a technique called “splintering” in …
Ahead of joining VMware, Pivotal reports strong earnings growth
Pivotal Software Inc. is going out on a high note. In what may be its last earnings report as a public company, the maker of the Cloud Foundry cloud development platform reported a narrower quarterly loss on 17% revenue growth driven by …
HPE earnings rise, but revenue slide continues for third straight quarter
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s stock rose as much as 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after it reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and raised its full-year forecast. However, investors might be getting ahead of themselves, as revenue fell 7% and …
At VMworld, VMware announces a hybrid cloud product blitz for partners
VMware Inc. will kick off its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco today with a slew of announcements aimed at positioning itself as the company everyone wants to partner with for hybrid cloud management. In addition to new versions of its operations and …