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Oracle to launch EU-only public cloud
Taking what it says is a unique approach to addressing the compliance needs of organizations in the European Union, Oracle Corp. today launched dedicated cloud infrastructure exclusively for use by the 27 EU member countries, providing the same services, service-level agreements and pricing as its broader public cloud. The EU Sovereign Cloud, which will be ...
Data observability startup Telmai raises $5.5M in oversubscribed seed round
Data observability startup Telmai Inc. today said it has raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing its total funding to $8.5 million. The company has created what it says is a unique approach to data quality management with an engine based on the Apache Spark analytics framework. It can accommodate a wide variety ...
Informatica acquires Privitar to strengthen privacy controls
Informatica Corp. said today it will acquire Privitar Ltd., a London-based maker of access controls and remediation for data privacy and security, for an undisclosed amount. The company said it plans to incorporate Privitar’s technology into its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, a platform for analyzing and managing data across large enterprises. The acquisition is expected to ...
Oracle NetSuite gets auto-reconciliation capability
Oracle Corp. today said it has added account reconciliation and transaction matching capabilities to its NetSuite enterprise resource planning suite, addressing what it says is a major pain point for organizations closing their books. NetSuite Account Reconciliation can be used to standardize and automate the reconciliation process, produce more accurate financial statements and enable faster ...
Oracle Cloud to incorporate latest AMD EPYC processors
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to upgrade its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E5 instances to use the latest generation of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. EPYC processors. The company will continue to offer the option of flexible instances that allow customers to allocate cores and memory as needed. The new EPYC processors provide about a 33% performance boost ...
Salesforce adds generative AI support across its application portfolio
Salesforce Inc. today is jumping aboard the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of large language model support across its portfolio of applications. Generative AI can now be incorporated into the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, Salesforce Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, Flow process manager and MuleSoft integration toolset for queries, code generation and business process ...
Snowflake’s seventh industry cloud targets government and education
Snowflake Inc. today launched its seventh industry cloud, this one devoted to government and education. The cloud combines its data platform with software from its partners and industry-specific datasets. Snowflake said the cloud meets a wide variety of security and compliance standards around the globe and addresses the need for secure collaboration within and across government ...
Imply Data gives Apache Druid schema auto-discover capability
Startup Imply Data Inc., which is promoting the use of the open-source Apache Druid real-time analytical database, today announced the third milestone in Project Shapeshift, its campaign to build a comprehensive toolset for developers to use in building applications on top of Druid. Imply is a multicloud data platform for real-time data ingestion and visualization ...
VMware’s Cloud Foundation 5 hybrid cloud platform is now available
VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation 5.0 hybrid cloud platform is now available, touting improvements in scalability, security and deployment simplicity. The release, announced Thursday, includes the latest versions of the VMware vSphere hypervisor version 8.0 Update 1, vSAN storage virtualization layer 8.0 Update 1, NSX 4.1 for network and security virtualization and vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8.10 ...
Dell’s revenue plunge was expected. The question is when growth will return
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue plunged 20% in its fiscal first quarter, but the results today beat lowered analysts’ estimates on both sales and profits. Shares gained about 1.5% today on an early release of the earnings statement about noon PDT, but they fell almost 3% after-hours on disappointing guidance for the second quarter and full ...