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Addressing what it says is a fragmented and ad hoc approach to network services deployment that has hampered wireless network deployment, Broadcom Inc. today debuted VeloSky, a converged networking appliance targeted at communications service providers that want to offer integrated fiber, cellular and …
Red Hat cozies up with telecom providers as open standards gain traction
Red Hat Inc. is taking advantage of the growing popularity of the Open Radio Access Network and the related Artificial Intelligence RAN specification to highlight a number of new partnerships it has forged with telecommunication providers, in announcements to be made at …
IDC debuts AI-fueled software procurement analysis service
Market research firm International Data Corp. today is releasing a new application aimed at helping enterprise executives simplify the software procurement process. IDC TechMatch uses generative artificial intelligence and IDC’s database of information about products and vendors to enable buyers to narrow …
Exclusive: ClarityQ raises $3.7M to apply AI to digital product usage analysis
Israeli startup ClarityQ Inc. today is launching with $3.7 million in pre-seed funding and plans to apply artificial intelligence to the often complex process of answering questions about technology product usage. Founded by a trio of entrepreneurs with a track record of …
Exclusive: Former Snowflake execs raise $5M for agentic AI that simplifies data operations
Genesis Computing Inc., a startup building generative and agentic artificial intelligence capabilities for use with cloud data management platforms, today said it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The company, which was founded last April by two former Snowflake Inc. executives, …
Dell rolls out cloud transformation services for telecom providers
Dell Technologies Inc. today is announcing a cloud transformation program, services and new servers aimed specifically at communications service providers. Dell has been on a two-year campaign to win the hearts and minds of telecom firms, many of which use vertically integrated and …
Backblaze CFO says restructuring should lift its stock out of the doldrums
Backblaze Inc., a provider of cloud storage and services, said today that its fourth-quarter revenue rose 18% year-over-year, to $33.8 million, on strong growth in its cloud storage business, and it expects revenue growth to accelerate through the rest of this year. …
Red Hat broadens virtualization options in latest OpenShift release
Red Hat Inc. is adding features aimed at improving security, simplifying operations and enhancing virtualization management in the latest release of OpenShift 4.18, its Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform, which is available today. Citing recent Gartner Inc. research that found that many …
Venture investors see DeepSeek accelerating AI market growth
Last month’s news that a Chinese startup called DeepSeek had developed a large language model for a tiny fraction of the cost of those built by U.S. companies triggered a nearly $1 trillion selloff in the stock market and sent investors scurrying …
Informatica plunges 33% on revenue miss, citing ‘internal issues,’ but says underlying business is strong
Informatica Inc.’s stock plummeted more than 33% in after-hours trading after the data integration company reported lower-than-expected revenue in the fourth quarter. Informatica blamed internal sales issues and customers’ more rapid than expected migration to the cloud, which hit maintenance revenues. Revenue …