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Identity software firm Okta’s shares jump almost 5% on solid earnings
Enterprise software firm Okta Inc. delivered solid third-quarter earnings Wednesday, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus. Okta, which makes identity management software that allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each of them, said it pulled in revenue of $68.2 million, up 61 percent from the same period last year. ...
Cloud computing will drive $554B in revenue by 2021
Up until now, most cloud revenue forecasts have focused on specific segments of cloud computing, but that changed today when International Data Corp. released its first report on the “whole cloud.” The new forecast encompasses just about every possible cloud service one might think of, including public, private and hybrid clouds, plus the software and ...
Google applies machine learning to make its Sheets spreadsheet software smarter
Google LLC is building on the machine learning technology that was integrated into its spreadsheet software last year. The company said today that it’s enhancing the “Explore” feature in Sheets with new capabilities including formula suggestions and pivot tables powered by machine learning that are designed to deliver faster and more useful insights. Sheets is part of ...
Alcide emerges with $5.2M seed funding to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments
Hoping to address some of the security problems inherent in what it calls the “modern data center,” a startup called Alcide is emerging from stealth mode with a new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments. The company today also announced a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Intel Capital and ...
Microsoft launches preview of ‘low code’ service for building ‘internet of things’ systems
Microsoft Corp. today announced the public preview of a new service that’s designed to help enterprises easily build large-scale “internet of things” systems. The software giant said Microsoft IoT Central, which is powered by its Azure cloud, is a software-as-a-service offering that’s meant to connect physical internet of things devices to “back-end services” such as asset ...
VMware updates NSX-T network software to support software container development
VMware Inc. took to the stage at Pivotal Software Inc.’s SpringOne Platform conference in San Francisco today to announce an updated version of its NSX virtual networking software. The virtualization giant offers two different versions of its software-defined networking software. NSX is the better known and more widely used of the two. It integrates with ...
Google launches new machine learning services for analyzing video and text content
Google LLC is moving forward with its effort to help developers add more layers of intelligence into their software applications, announcing general availability of two new machine learning services. The new releases pertain to Google’s Cloud Video Intelligence and Cloud Natural Language Content Classification. In a blog post, Google engineers Wei Hua and Apoorv Saxena ...
Pivotal Software adds serverless compute, software containers to Cloud Foundry
Software and services company Pivotal Software Inc., a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., today announced a major update to its Cloud Foundry product during its annual SpringOne Platform conference. The update adds new serverless computing capabilities to the popular developer platform, and it also integrates Pivotal’s new container service, announced during VMworld 2017 in August. Pivotal ...
CoreOS adds open-source infrastructure services to its Tectonic Kubernetes platform
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is updating its popular Tectonic platform, adding a number of open-source services that serve as alternatives to proprietary infrastructure components from public cloud companies. CoreOS’s Tectonic platform is essentially an enterprise-grade version of the Kubernetes container orchestration tool, which is used to manage clusters of software containers, which in turn ...
With solid customer growth, Nutanix beats earnings forecasts
Hyperconvered infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. today said it soundly beat market expectations with its fiscal first-quarter results. The company, which sells an enterprise cloud platform that converges servers, virtualization and storage into integrated product that can connect to public cloud services, reported a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of $24.7 million, or 16 ...