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Fortinet reports strong earnings and debuts a new firewall product
Cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. delivered second-quarter results today that came in above expectations, but the strong performance wasn’t enough to prevent its stock falling in after-hours trading. The company, which sells tools that simplify operations for organizations with a large number of breach prevention systems, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 68 cents ...
Moderna partners with AWS as it races to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Biotech firm Moderna Inc. said today it has selected Amazon Web Services Inc. as its “preferred” cloud computing provider. Under the partnership, Moderna said, it will use Amazon’s cloud platform as its standard for data analytics and machine learning workloads. Moderna is one of many pharmaceutical giants that are racing to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. ...
IPO flop: Rackspace stock loses 20% on first day of trading
Cloud services company Rackspace Technology Inc. re-entered the public markets today and saw its stock fall 20% on its first day of trading. Still, it raised $704 million following an initial public offering that was priced at the bottom of its marketed range. The company, which sells cloud management services to enterprises, went private in 2016 ...
Taking on Google’s Istio, Microsoft debuts Open Service Mesh
Microsoft Corp. said today it has created a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy server, and that it’s planning to hand over control of the project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in a few weeks’ time. The Open Service Mesh is designed to help companies deal with the complexity of managing ...
Google adds new features for G Suite mobile users
Google LLC is making its G Suite productivity tools easier to use on smartphones, adding various new features and functionality to the mobile versions of its apps. In a blog post today, Rany Ng, director of product management at G Suite, said the growing trend of remote working means that more and more people have ...
Harness buys Drone.io to expand into software integration
Harness Inc. said today it has acquired the self-service continuous integration firm Drone.io Inc. for an undisclosed price. Harness sells a “continuous delivery-as-a-service” platform that uses machine learning algorithms to monitor new software updates for any problems. Continuous software delivery is an emerging model that’s popular with companies that want to roll out regular updates ...
New Relic stock plunges as it warns of ‘near term’ revenue hit from product shift
Application monitoring company New Relic Inc. saw 18% of its value wiped out in after-hours trading today after including an earnings warning in its latest financial report. The company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 15 cents per share on revenue of $163 million. That was better than expected, with ...
Arista Networks beats earnings targets but its stock falls anyway
Cloud networking company Arista Networks Inc. saw its stock dip in after-hours trading today despite beating its targets on profit and revenue. The company reported a second-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.11 per share on revenue of $540.6 million, down 11% from a year ago but up 3% from the first ...
Google debuts a more flexible Certificate Authority Service in beta
Google LLC today announced availability of a new, cloud-based Certificate Authority Service in beta testing that makes it easier for companies to set up the digital certificates they need for their public key infrastructure. Public key infrastructure is used by companies to authenticate their users and devices in the digital world. It refers to a ...
Analog Devices and Intel partner on open 5G network design
Data conversion and signal processing chipmaker Analog Devices Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Intel Corp. to create a new 5G wireless network design that’s based on the emerging OpenRAN standard. The goal is to develop a flexible radio platform that can help carriers to scale up their 5G infrastructure deployments, the companies said. ADI ...