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Despite revenue miss, Microsoft shares climb on hopes for improved cloud performance
After two straight quarters of disappointing earnings results, investors were heartened by signs that Microsoft Corp.’s cloud business is breaking out of the doldrums, but a weak forecast dulled their initial optimism. The software and cloud giant reported slightly better than expected revenues in its Intelligent Cloud business on overall revenues that came in barely ...
DevZero lands $26M funding to bridge divide between development and production environments
DevInfra Inc., which does business as DevZero, said today it has raised $26 million in a Series A funding round and announced the general availability of its Developer Environment Platform, which enables developers to write and test code in environments that exactly simulate production. Founded by former Uber Technologies Inc. engineers Debosmit Ray (pictured, left) ...
Enhanced compliance, tariff management features top updates to Oracle’s cloud supply chain suite
Oracle Corp. today added new logistics capabilities to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing suite aimed at reducing costs, improving accuracy, automating compliance and improving logistics flexibility. The user interface has been substantially revised using Oracle’s JavaScript Extension Toolkit, which is based on JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS3 and HTML5 design and development principles. Jet is ...
Microsoft deepens commitment to OpenAI in Azure cloud and enterprise products with reported $10B stake
The budding romance between Microsoft Corp. and red-hot startup OpenAI LLC grew cozier today with Microsoft’s announcement that it will make a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in specialized supercomputing infrastructure to support OpenAI’s research and also incorporate the startup’s models across its consumer and enterprise products. Billed as the third phase of a relationship that dates ...
RKVST adds public attestation and multitenant support to digital supply chain service
RKVST Inc., a startup that provides a service for managing digital supply chains, has added a public attestation feature to its product as part of a broad set of updates that also includes support for multitenancy and verified domain names as well as batch transaction features. The updates were announced Jan. 18. The company, whose ...
Gartner halves forecast of IT spending growth to 2.4% in 2023
Gartner Inc. expects worldwide information technology spending to grow 2.4% in 2023, to $4.5 trillion, down from its previous forecast of 5.1% growth, according to a new report released today. However, the downward revision is more a function of the strong U.S. dollar and weakening demand for consumer devices than an indication that enterprise IT ...
SUPERCLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management
In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” said Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, business intelligence and analytics. Core ...
Walmart to offer logistics services via Salesforce cloud
Continuing its 18-month-old drive to expand its business into technology services, Walmart Inc. today announced a partnership with Salesforce Inc. that will make Walmart’s Store Assist fulfillment-as-a-service and GoLocal deliver-as-a-service offerings available to Salesforce users. Both applications will be made available through the Salesforce AppExchange for fast deployment of services that enable “personalized and easy commerce ...
Progress Software acquires NoSQL data integration engine MarkLogic
Progress Software Inc. today announced a deal to acquire MarkLogic Inc., the maker of a NoSQL database management system that’s primarily used for enterprise data integration. The purchase price wasn’t initially disclosed, but press reports later set it at $355 million. Progress said the deal will give it a unified enterprise-grade semantic data platform for ...
IBM overhauls partner program with simpler model, more incentives
Continuing a nearly three-year campaign to shift sales responsibility for the bulk of its accounts from direct to indirect channels, IBM Corp. today announced an overhaul of its partner support program that increases partner access to its resources, incentives and support while simplifying the structure and metrics used to allocate those resources. IBM Partner Plus replaces ...