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Informatica Corp. said today it will acquire Privitar Ltd., a London-based maker of access controls and remediation for data privacy and security, for an undisclosed amount. The company said it plans to incorporate Privitar’s technology into its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, a platform …
Oracle NetSuite gets auto-reconciliation capability
Oracle Corp. today said it has added account reconciliation and transaction matching capabilities to its NetSuite enterprise resource planning suite, addressing what it says is a major pain point for organizations closing their books. NetSuite Account Reconciliation can be used to standardize …
Oracle Cloud to incorporate latest AMD EPYC processors
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to upgrade its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E5 instances to use the latest generation of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. EPYC processors. The company will continue to offer the option of flexible instances that allow customers to allocate cores …
Salesforce adds generative AI support across its application portfolio
Salesforce Inc. today is jumping aboard the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of large language model support across its portfolio of applications. Generative AI can now be incorporated into the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, Salesforce Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, Flow …
Snowflake’s seventh industry cloud targets government and education
Snowflake Inc. today launched its seventh industry cloud, this one devoted to government and education. The cloud combines its data platform with software from its partners and industry-specific datasets. Snowflake said the cloud meets a wide variety of security and compliance standards around …
Imply Data gives Apache Druid schema auto-discover capability
Startup Imply Data Inc., which is promoting the use of the open-source Apache Druid real-time analytical database, today announced the third milestone in Project Shapeshift, its campaign to build a comprehensive toolset for developers to use in building applications on top of …
VMware’s Cloud Foundation 5 hybrid cloud platform is now available
VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation 5.0 hybrid cloud platform is now available, touting improvements in scalability, security and deployment simplicity. The release, announced Thursday, includes the latest versions of the VMware vSphere hypervisor version 8.0 Update 1, vSAN storage virtualization layer 8.0 Update …
Dell’s revenue plunge was expected. The question is when growth will return
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue plunged 20% in its fiscal first quarter, but the results today beat lowered analysts’ estimates on both sales and profits. Shares gained about 1.5% today on an early release of the earnings statement about noon PDT, but they …
Coalition of AI leaders sees ‘societal-scale risks’ from the technology’s misuse
A statement issued today and signed by more than 375 computer scientists, academics and business leaders warns of profound risks of artificial intelligence misuse and says the potential problems posed by the technology be given the same urgency as pandemics and nuclear …
AI and automation headline Red Hat’s annual user fest
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat Inc. subsidiary today is kicking off its annual Red Hat Summit conference with the themes of “do more with less” and “scale for innovation” and a raft of enhancements to its core products that address both. It wouldn’t …