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Big-data bomb: Cloudera’s stock crashes 40% on slower-growth outlook
Big-data management company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a huge beating in after-hours trading, falling by more than 28 percent thanks to lower-than-expected guidance on revenue growth this year. Update: On Wednesday, investors hammered shares even harder, as the stock fell 40 percent for the day. The company reported a loss after certain costs ...
Alcide launches security platform to safeguard multicloud IT environments
Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., said today that its new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments is now generally available. Alcide’s cloud-native security platform is designed to protect modern data center environments, including software containers, virtual machines, bare metal servers and serverless infrastructure. The platform works by monitoring ...
Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down
Google LLC is shaking things up at the executive level amid reports that its search and artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea is stepping down. Computer scientist Giannandrea (pictured) took over the unit when Google’s search and AI divisions were merged in February 2016. Now, with his departure, Google is splitting the two groups up again ...
Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in Iowa and Paris. The move follows an announcement last year that the company was introducing availability zones in preview. In a blog post Friday, Tom Keane, ...
No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018
The global semiconductor industry recorded its best year in more than a decade in 2017, with annual revenue jumping by 22 percent over the previous year, to $429.1 billion. That’s according to new data from the U.K.-based analyst firm IHS Markit Ltd., which attributed the rise to a massive spike in demand for processing power ...
CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment, known simply as “SPIRE.” The other new project is called the Open Policy Agent or OPA. All three are said to ...
Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types
Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users to pull information from Microsoft’s extensive Knowledge Graph and insert it inside their spreadsheets. The general idea is to make Excel ...
IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps
IBM Corp. is reaching out to software coders with a new application development environment called Microclimate that supports multiple cloud platforms. IBM reckons that Microclimate has everything a developer needs to simplify and speed up application creation and deployment. Microclimate is an “end-to-end framework” that can be used in every stage of the development process, ...
Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers
Microsoft Corp. has posted an update about how its Project Brainwave deep learning acceleration project is being used to power Bing’s search service. Project Brainwave is an extension of Microsoft’s development work on field programmable gate arrays, which are processors used in data centers that can be reprogrammed in real time for different computing tasks. ...
Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’
Juniper Networks Inc.’s open-source OpenContrail project to create a software-defined network is being rebranded. The project, housed by the Linux Foundation, has been renamed as “Tungsten Fabric” in an effort to encourage more outside developers to contribute. Tungsten Fabric is designed to be a scalable, multicloud platform that provides a single point of control, observability ...