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Taylor Rhodes quits Rackspace CEO role for unnamed cloud company
Rackspace Inc. Chief Executive Officer Taylor Rhodes said Wednesday he’s leaving the company after three years at the helm. Rhodes (pictured) led the company through a strategic transformation that saw it focus on providing managed services for public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure after giving up on its ambitions to ...
Tableau shares spike following mixed earnings call
Data analytics company Tableau Software Inc. reported a mixed bag in its first-quarter earnings report, barely missing estimates on revenue but blowing past expectations on losses. Tableau posted revenue of $199.9 million for the quarter, a 16 percent increase year-over-year. That compared with analysts’ estimates of $200.83 million. However, the company reported a loss after ...
Bonsai lands $7.6m Series A round to simplify AI for industrial uses
Artificial intelligence startup Bonsai AI Inc. has just landed $7.6 million in a Series A funding round as it tries to commercialize the open-source machine learning library TensorFlow. The company is hoping to simplify Tensorflow for enterprises that want to build their own AI models and incorporate them into their businesses. Microsoft Ventures and existing investor NEA ...
Netwrix updates network monitoring tool to counter ransomware
So-called ransomware, which is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid, is reaching epidemic proportions. To counter the threat, security vendors haven been attempting to respond with new network monitoring tools designed to mitigate the problem. One such vendor is Netwrix Corp., which has just ...
LinkedIn wants to deploy chatbots to help users further their careers
LinkedIn Corp. wants to lend a helping hand to business professionals hoping to climb the corporate ladder, and to do so it’s reportedly turning to chatbots. Although there has been no official statement, LinkedIn recently emailed users about an update its terms and conditions. In the email, it makes mention of something called “productivity bots” that ...
Red Hat brings AWS cloud services to OpenShift software container platform
Red Hat Inc. is extending its partnership with Amazon Web Services by providing access to the public cloud platform through its OpenShift software container and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. The hybrid cloud collaboration was announced at the Red Hat Summit Tuesday. The open-source company also announced a host of new developer tools for containers, which allow ...
Facebook builds a new data center network to separate user traffic from machine data
Facebook Inc. deals with an enormous amount of data generated by its 1.86 billion users, including photos, videos and chat messages. But that’s not the only data it deals with, and in fact its user-generated data is dwarfed by the massive flow of machine data among its own facilities. Data volumes soared to such an ...
Despite an otherwise solid quarter, AMD shares tank on weak server chip sales
Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw its share price crash by about 8 percent in after-hours trading on Monday after reporting lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue in its server chip business. AMD’s server business, which makes microchips for both servers and gaming consoles, saw revenues increase by 5 percent from a year ago, to $391 million. ...
Despite cloud growth, the data center still dominates enterprise workloads
The trend toward cloud computing might dominate all the headlines in the tech media, but on-premises workloads are still all the rage among enterprises, according to a new survey by the Uptime Institute. The advisory organization today published the results of its seventh annual Data Center Industry Survey, with the main finding being that although ...
NSA agrees to stop spying on emails that mention foreign targets
The National Security Agency has said it will stop snooping on American citizens’ private emails that mention foreign individuals targeted for surveillance, the New York Times reported. Citing a U.S. official familiar with the decision, the Times said Friday that the NSA will no longer collect or analyze emails that mention identifying terms – such as ...