‘AT&T in conflict with activist investors’
AT&T is under pressure from Elliott Management to reduce operating costs and suspend future expansion plans. The activist investment company, which is part owner of the telecom firm, is currently in talks with AT&T to discuss acceptable outcomes for both parties.
Elliott Management, an i... Read more
SAS and Red Hat work together for better hybrid cloud analytics
SAS and
Red Hat will collaborate to improve SAS’s hybrid cloud analytics. This is to be
done by offering SAS analytics on OpenShift, Red Hat's Kubernetes platform.
"The
collaboration between SAS and Red Hat combines market leading analytics with
the industry's most comprehensive enterprise Kub... Read more
Cumulus Networks and Dell EMC to optimize campus networks
Cumulus
Networks, provider of network management software to optimize data centers, and
Dell EMC join forces to make campus network management easier. This includes
Cumulus Linux and NetQ solutions.
With the
introduction of the software solutions, Cumulus Networks wants to ensure that
data cente... Read more
Chrome 77 protects against password and data theft
In 2018, Google launched Site Isolation in Chrome 67 to
protect against the Spectre leak. This feature uses operating system processes
to make it more difficult for attackers to steal data from other websites. This
feature can stop even more advanced attacks in the new Chrome 77.
Spectre is an e... Read more
Workday announces new data analytics and financial tools
During the Workday Rising event, a number of updates to
Workday were already announced.
The company informed Techzine about a number of additions, including financial
tools and functions for data analytics.
Journal Insights is a new feature for Workday Financial
Management users. The func... Read more
Slack launches Workflow Builder to automate tasks
Slack is a very useful tool to work with, but
unfortunately it is not always possible to receive information in real-time. This
can be of crucial importance for projects, which is why the business chat
service has now launched a tool to automate workflows: Workflow Builder.
“Coordinating proje... Read more
Machine learning plays a major role in new Workday apps
Machine learning will play a major role in the future
innovations of Workday. That is what co-founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri said
during the Workday Rising conference. Some of this can already be seen in a
series of new apps that the company announced there.
According to Bhusri, machine learning i... Read more
UiPath launches new tool after acquiring StepShot and ProcessGold
UiPath, the vendor of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
technology, has converted the acquisitions of two companies into the launch of
a new product. The RPA developer bought StepShot and the Dutch ProcessGold, and
incorporated their technology into the new Explorer service.
The StepShot acquisit... Read more
‘Department of Justice is investigating Google’s Looker acquisition’
The first major acquisition of Google Cloud under CEO
Thomas Kurian appears to have gone less than smoothly. U.S. authorities are
said to be investigating the planned acquisition of business intelligence
platform Looker.
Sources who are aware of the investigation report to Bloomberg
that the ant... Read more
Acronis introduces new approach for data protection
Acronis says it has abandoned traditional backup and data
protection methods with a new approach towards data protection. This new approach
has resulted in three data protection solutions.
According to Acronis, today's businesses are increasingly
dependent on data, which poses new challenges. Th... Read more