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Looking to wring more synergies out of its recent acquisitions, Salesforce.com Inc. today used its TrailblazerDX 2022 developer conference to introduce new integrations between its core customer relationship management system and the Slack collaboration and Tableau data visualization platforms. Salesforce.com’s MuleSoft subsidiary …
HPE announces integrated appliance for machine learning development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is unveiling some of the fruits of last year’s acquisition of Determined AI Inc. with the launch of a platform for building and training machine learning models at scale. The HPE Machine Learning Development System combines the …
Microsoft shares surge on strong results and an upbeat forecast
Microsoft Corp. beat earnings estimates today with better-than-expected revenue across nearly all its product lines in the fiscal third quarter. The company also issued a bullish forecast, helping send the stock up about 5% in after-hours trading. Revenue rose 18% over the …
Code-testing firm SonarSource lands $412M in funding at a $4.7 billion valuation
SonarSource Inc., which sells a commercial version of an open-source code-testing platform, today said it has raised $412 million from new and existing investors at a valuation of $4.7 billion, bringing the Geneva-based company’s total amount raised to $457 million. SonarSource’s open-source …
SAP earnings miss blamed on short-term factors
SAP SE’s fiscal first-quarter earnings fell short of analysts’ expectations today but revenue growth came in stronger than expected. Earnings per share of $1.08 fell below consensus estimates of $1.22. Revenues rose 11.5% over the same period last year, to $7.63 billion, beating …
Databricks targets media firms with its fourth vertical market analytics package
Databricks Inc. is continuing its recent campaign to court customers in vertical industries with today’s announcement of an analytics platform targeted at the media and entertainment industry. The company, which sells an analytics platform based on the Apache Spark framework, said the …
D-Matrix lands $44M to build AI-specific chipsets
Three-year-old startup d-Matrix Corp. said today that it has closed a $44 million funding round to support its efforts to build a new type of computing platform that support transformer artificial intelligence workloads. The company also announced its first silicon “chiplet” based …
Latest Oracle Exadata servers ascend to the cloud
Oracle Corp. today is completing the rollout of its latest generation of Exadata processors with an announcement that computing services based on the Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M appliance are now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Oracle Autonomous Database Service running on Exadata …
IBM buoys investors with strong results and a bright forecast
IBM Corp.’s growth story continued to gain momentum today as the computer giant announced first-quarter results that slightly beat expectations and an upbeat forecast that buoyed the stock price in after-hours trading. Quarterly revenue rose nearly 11% from a year ago, to …
Inventor of Salt automation project comes up with a new way to tame cloud complexity
Cloud complexity is nothing new. Solving for it has been an intractable problem. Cloud-native applications based on microservices can have thousands of moving parts and application program interfaces. Although that’s made application development faster and more reliable, it’s also introduced a dizzying …