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With more than 300,000 employees and operations in more than 100 countries, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a vast and complex organization. But that hasn’t stopped the world’s largest bank from implementing an ambitious strategy to move most of its operations to …
Alphabet beats the Street but slowing ad growth drags on stock price
Google LLC reported a slowdown in advertising sales growth in the second quarter, triggering an after-hours selloff of its shares of about 1.5%. Parent Alphabet Inc. said Google generated $64.6 billion in ad sales in the quarter, up 11.1% from $58.14 billion …
SAP posts solid results and raises profit target for 2025
SAP SE posted second-quarter revenue and operating profit that beat analyst expectations and raised 2025 operating profit projections, sending the enterprise software maker’s stock up more than 4% after hours. Revenue rose to $9.02 billion from $8.22 billion in last year’s second …
Gartner revises server spending forecast sharply upward as generative AI effect kicks in
Gartner Inc.’s latest worldwide information technology spending forecast predicts a 24.1% jump in spending on data center systems, more than double the 10% growth expected just three months ago and six times the actual growth of 4% last year — thanks to …
Red Hat enhances OpenShift with better support for diverse workloads
Red Hat Inc. today introduced enhanced and new features for its OpenShift version of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers, with a particular focus on handling diverse workloads. Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is intended to provide consistent management of disparate workloads ranging …
C3 debuts generative AI platform for government agencies
C3 AI Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models customized to different industries and use cases, today announced C3 Generative AI for Government Programs, a generative AI application aimed at helping federal, state and local governments deliver information about government programs via a chat …
Oracle offers shared Exadata-as-a-service at dramatically lower cost than for full instances
In a bid to attract more small business and department-level customers to its high-end Exadata Cloud service, Oracle Corp. today launched what it calls an “intelligent data architecture” that delivers high-speed query performance across multiple cloud instances at a cost significantly lower …
Where does eBay do most of its AI development? You might be surprised
For a company doing business in the cloud before the concept of cloud computing existed, eBay Inc. has taken a decidedly non-cloud-centric approach to artificial intelligence training and deployment. Though the company bursts out to use public cloud resources during seasonal peaks, …
Alluxio says it can achieve 97% GPU utilization across a distributed filesystem
Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, announced a set of enhancements that optimize the use of costly graphic processing units along with performance improvements that make its storage performance competitive with storage subsystems optimized for high-performance computing. Alluxio Enterprise …
Betamax blues: Hudi edging toward ‘also ran’ status in the data platform race
In announcing its Polaris Catalog last month, Snowflake Inc. Executive Vice President Christian Kleinerman said the product “extends Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Iceberg as the open standard of choice.” Statements like that raise the hackles of Apache Hudi adherents. They maintain their …