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Kinetica hires industry veterans to kick-start growth of its GPU-fueled database
With a product that’s riding one of the hottest trends in high-performance computing right now – graphics processing unit acceleration — Kinetica Db Inc. is bringing in experienced management to help it scale. The company plans to announce the appointment Monday of Paul Appleby (pictured) as chief executive. A veteran of more than 20 years of high-tech ...
Study sees poor capacity planning leading to massive cloud waste
Organizations that migrate existing on-premises workloads to the cloud without revisiting the way services are provisioned are throwing away money, according to a new study. Cloud migration and optimization vendor TSO Logic Inc. looked at the usage patterns of 105,000 operating system instances from 20 customers and prospects over a six-month period and found that 84 percent ...
Dell revenue surges on server growth, but storage sales stay flat
Dell Technologies Inc. revenues surged 21 percent in its fiscal third quarter, led by strong growth in its server business, another blowout quarter by its VMware Inc. subsidiary and continued solid performance of desktop personal computers. But storage revenues were flat, and officials conceded that competitors have taken advantage of the complex merger of Dell ...
New Gartner research finds chief data officer role is rapidly going mainstream
Gartner Inc.’s latest research on the rapidly evolving role of the chief data officer finds that the job is gaining traction in global enterprises and is increasingly driving their path toward digital transformation. The survey of 287 CDOs, chief analytics officers and other high-level data and analytics leaders from around the world found that the ...
Iguazio releases high-speed serverless platform to open source
Iguazio Systems Ltd. has raised $48 million and a lot of interest for its platform-independent approach to data analytics. Now the company is releasing some of the underlying serverless computing technology under an open-source license. Called nuclio, the platform is claimed to operate at faster-than-bare-metal speed, processing up to 400,000 events per second compared with ...
Dialpad says its new small-business phone service will be free forever
The team that brought you the precursor to Google Voice is hoping lightning will strike again. Dialpad Inc., developer of enterprise voice, messaging and conferencing systems that use the voice over internet protocol, is offering small businesses of five or fewer employees a full-featured business phone system at no charge. Ever. Dialpad Free supports a ...
VMware binds management features into its cloud migration platform
VMware Inc. is putting more meat on the bones of its Cloud Foundation integrated hybrid cloud platform. A new 2.3 version announced today folds in cloud management capabilities that were previously available only as separate add-on components. It also provides for management and provisioning of compute, network, storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments. Cloud ...
IBM targets deep learning AI with its first Power9-based systems
Nearly 20 months after revealing its plans to develop a new version of its Power series of processors, IBM Corp. today is rolling out its first machines based upon the new chip, saying they’re the best you can get for compute-intensive artificial intelligence workloads. The new Linux-based AC922 Power Systems can speed up the training ...
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Graph databases are hot, but can they break relational’s grip?
Comcast Corp. is working on ways to better understand its customers’ families. The company plans to roll out features that enable parents to manage the devices their children use at a fine level of granularity. For example, account holders will be able to pause internet access at dinner time or know precisely when their kids ...
VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership pays on-premises dividends
Between its struggles to build a public cloud presence and the perceived threat of containers to its virtualization empire, a lot of people have an waiting for VMware Inc. to hit a wall for the last couple of years. They’re going to have to wait a little longer. The virtualization giant today beat revenue and profit forecasts in its ...