Tag: Cloud Software
This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Google will hire the co-founders and members of the research team for Character.AI in exchange for an undisclosed…
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Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are among the most impressive SaaS companies so far this year. A sales tax management tools provider. A way to turn sales and customer calls into intelligence. And a conversational artificial intelligence platform from the former co-CEO of Salesforce. Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are just some of the startups operating under…
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‘Based on its market investigation, the Commission found that the transaction, as notified, would not significantly reduce competition on such markets,’ the European Commission said. Citing “no competition concerns” in the European Economic Area, the European Commission Thursday unconditionally approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks “Based on its market investigation,…
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From AT&T to Salesforce and Microsoft, these are among the biggest cloud outages this year so far. A major AT&T outage in February. Salesforce service failures in May. And Microsoft solution providers facing down times in Azure and Microsoft 365 in July. These are just some of the biggest cloud outages the world has faced…
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‘The significant opportunities within the Mission AI Foundation lie in what comes after they launch an AI application,’ says Ted Stuart, president and COO at Mission Cloud. ‘Many businesses think that launching a service is like crossing the finish line, when in reality they’re just getting started. We help guide customers through that realization.’ Mission…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was named this week as CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive of 2024. Microsoft executives came armed with data to show a growing artificial intelligence business and assurances that the vendor’s growing expenses to meet AI demand are done responsibly during the tech giant’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday.…
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Whole Foods self-checkout lanes were closed and Alexa devices weren’t working. Amazon Web Services was dealing with a significant outage Tuesday as Amazon-owned Whole Foods supermarkets closed self-checkout lanes, delivery drivers abandoned their routes and Alexa devices stopped working. The AWS service health dashboard said that there was a “degradation” of multiple services and the…
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Here’s a look at the tech industry companies that saw the biggest share price gains and losses in the first six months of 2024 including Nvidia, Dell Technologies, UIPath and Lumen Technologies. A Booming Year For Many Tech Stocks – So Far Fueled by anticipated growth from new AI technologies and products, many IT companies…
Read MoreThis is at least the third major outage for Microsoft in July. Days after a faulty CrowdStrike update downed millions of Windows machines worldwide and a coincidental Microsoft Azure region outage in the United States, Microsoft has reported “access issues and degraded performance” for a variety of services and features under its Microsoft 365 umbrella.…
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Amazon’s next quarterly earnings call should feature details on Amazon Web Services management and AWS’ AI and database products. A new Amazon Web Services CEO. The opportunity in artificial intelligence. And innovation in the database business. These are some of the subjects likely to come up during the Seattle-based cloud giant’s Thursday earnings call, when…
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