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A new survey by cloud service management firm CloudHealth Technologies Inc. finds that companies that plan their journey to the cloud and appoint a steward to oversee it enjoy more than twice the revenue growth of those that don’t. That translates into …
Microsoft results top estimates as cloud revenues surge 95 percent
Microsoft Corp. beat revenue and profit estimates in its fiscal second quarter, buoyed by impressive growth in its Azure cloud computing business and strong gains in the cloud-based Office 365 productivity suite. Revenues of $26.1 billion eclipsed analyst consensus estimates of $25.3 billion …
IBM to support Google-developed TensorFlow machine learning library
The TensorFlow machine learning framework that Google Inc. released under an Apache open-source license in late 2015 just gained an important endorsement: IBM Corp. said today that it will support TensorFlow 0.12 on its PowerAI machine learning platform. IBM introduced PowerAI late last …
It’s another earnings blowout for ServiceNow
Red-hot information technology service management provider ServiceNow Inc. beat every metric that matters today as it announced stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Highlighting the quarter at the Santa Clara, California-based company were a 41 percent jump in subscription revenues and 35 percent growth in total revenues. Full-year …
SAP beats estimates on cloud strength, raises outlook through 2020
Continuing to escape the malaise that has hit much of the legacy information technology industry, application software giant SAP SE posted healthy fourth-quarter earnings on a 40 percent jump in bookings for its cloud computing offerings and a 47 percent surge in …
Kinetica rolls machine learning libraries into its GPU-powered database
In-memory database maker Kinetica Db Inc. today is adding in-database analytics via user-defined functions to its namesake product, enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence libraries such as TensorFlow, BiDMach, Caffe and Torch to run directly inside the database, rather than requiring a time-consuming process …
Adaptive Insights CEO: Why corporate performance management will disrupt financial forecasting
The annual corporate financial plans that have long been a business staple seem almost quaint in the context of today’s breakneck business pace. The hottest new concept is corporate performance management, known as CPM, an evolution of business intelligence that gathers data from …
Tricentis hauls in huge $165M funding round to automate software testing
The software testing market isn’t generally thought of as a hotbed of venture capital investment, but Tricentis GmbH is aiming to put that image to rest with today’s announcement of a massive $165 million series B financing round led by Insight Venture Partners. …
Drones are really data vacuums. Here’s how one startup plans to clean up
Drones may still be a bit of a novelty in the skies, but cottage industries are already springing up around expectations that their impact will be enormous. Fleets of drones are already being used in fields such as law enforcement, agriculture, real …
Report shows Office 365 pulling away from cloud application pack
In a further sign that Microsoft Corp. is making hay in cloud computing, its Office 365 continues to extend its lead as the No. 1 productivity suite in the cloud. That’s one finding in cloud identity management provider Okta Inc.‘s third “Businesses @ Work” …