David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO—HPE and Rackspace gave more details as to why they think their recently announced partnership of a pay-per-use on-premise infrastructure service will succeed. At a media briefing here Dec. 12, the companies announced the OpenStack Private Cloud with pay-per-use infrastructure as a managed service. Rather than pay to buy and maintain servers, this service will […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Some of virtual reality’s biggest boosters shared words of caution at the recent VRX Conference and Expo here on Dec. 7-8. “We don’t want to mad rush this technology and say it solves everything,” said Frank Soqui,general manager of virtual reality and gaming at Intel. During a panel discussion on enterprise use cases for […]

Top 10 Gadgets to Help You Get Your Geek On This Holiday Season The holidays are a time of giving, and that means finding just the right gadget or new doohickey for your favorite techie. The recent GetGeeked event in San Francisco showcased a number of innovative products that could be perfect stocking stockers, Hanukah […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com expects more than 170,000 people to take part in its annual Dreamforce conference here Nov. 6-9. Many of those attendees came to look over or show off the applications they have developed for their companies that extend the Salesforce customer relationship management ecosystem. One reason why the Salesforce CRM platform has grown so […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com is moving to make several of its services more accessible and customizable. During a media briefing here ahead of its Dreamforce conference that kicks off Nov. 6, Salesforce detailed enhancements to many of its services, including the Trailhead learning platform. The new myTrailhead is designed to let companies create their own interactive learning […]

HALF MOON BAY, CALIF. —The practical and potential applications of AI were a hot topic Oct. 24-27 at the Constellation Research Connected Enterprise conference here. “Today, AI augments what we do, but in the future you’ll see decisions made by (AI) entities,” said Bernt Wahl, executive director of the Brain Machine Consortium. Wahl argues a […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Looking to give enterprises and other organizations better access to relatively underutilized content, Box has announced Box Skills. The initial release of Box Skills covers three areas—image, audio and video. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) company said Box Skills leverages different aspects of machine learning such as computer vision, video indexing and sentiment analysis, to give […]

Asserting that a new approach is needed to combat cyber-crime, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison introduced two new cloud security suites at Oracle OpenWorld that rely primarily on machine learning to automatically detect and resolve threats rather than rely on human intervention. “Companies are losing the cyber war every year and it’s getting worse,” said Ellison. […]

SugarCRM is beefing up its cloud customer relationship management platform with new features designed to make it easier for salespeople to find leads and be better prepared for sales calls and meetings. The company has also released a mobile SDK that lets customers do the same kind of customization to the Sugar Mobile version of […]

Splunk made several improvements to its data monitoring and data analytics product line that offer new machine learning capabilities, anti-fraud and cloud monitoring features. The improvements are included in  Splunk Enterprise 7.0, Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) 3.0, Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 4.0 and updates to Splunk Cloud. The updates in both Splunk Enterprise […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Previewing what may well be the biggest news at the company’s Oracle OpenWorld next month, the database giant gave details of its autonomous or “self-driving” database and a simplified pricing scheme for cloud computing customers. During the Sept. 19 briefing here at Oracle headquarters, Oracle’s outspoken Executive Chairman Larry Ellison took aim at […]

Salesforce.com has several big improvements planned for its Sales Cloud CRM platform, driven by the company’s Einstein AI software. The new features are designed to deliver a “next generation of Sales Cloud” that includes better sales forecasting and insights into individual and sales team’s performance, company executives told eWEEK. Salesforce also announced a new $50 […]