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SPECIAL REPORT: CLOUD ON THE EDGE
Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all
In the process of building a global e-commerce empire that can deliver goods overnight to much of the developed world, Amazon.com Inc. has developed expertise in distributed computing, robotics and factory automation. Google LLC’s quest to deliver subsecond responses to search queries has driven it to build a presence on more than 90 of the world’s ...
Strong subscription revenue growth highlights upbeat VMware earnings
The good times continue to roll at VMware Inc., which topped analysts’ expectations today on both revenue and profit in the third quarter and raised its financial outlook for the rest of the year. The company, which has positioned itself as a kind of broker for customers using multiple clouds, reported third-quarter net income of ...
Informatica boosts data integration features for Snowflake data warehouse
Informatica Corp. is expanding its line of data integration and governance tools for the Snowflake Computing Inc. data warehouse with today’s launch of serverless data integration pipelines, a portal for creating customer profiles and a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools. Informatica, which is the largest pure-play data integration provider, has been steadily migrating its ...
VMware targets firewalls in first rollouts of its Modern Network framework
Building on the Project Monterey enterprise virtualization strategy it outlined at its VMworld conference last month, VMware Inc. today announced a framework for network, security and physical infrastructure services along with a new subscription service for home-based workers and virtual access control services. The virtualization giant is particularly focused on eliminating the need for the hardware ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse
In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way service providers are deployed to deliver aid as quickly as possible to stranded ...
Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses
Continuing its quest to make freeform data lakes a viable alternative to highly structured data warehouses, Databricks Inc. today debuted an engine that enables many workloads previously targeted at data warehouses to be executed on data lakes instead. SQL Analytics is said to combine data warehousing performance with data lake economics to enable SQL queries ...
Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate
Data integration firm Talend SA beat Wall Street estimates of its third-quarter earnings thanks to strong growth in its cloud business, indicating that it continues to turn the corner on the migration of its on-premises business to the cloud. The third-quarter loss of $4 million, or 16 cents per share, beat analyst estimates of a loss of ...
Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data
Oracle Corp. today introduced enhancements to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience customer relationship management application focused on improving both virtual selling and buying. Citing a recent Oracle-sponsored Beagle Research Group LLC study that found that traditional CRM systems are seen as more a burden than a resource, the company said the new features are focused on ...
Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail
Some 306 billion email messages traverse the internet each day, but the need for physical mailboxes hasn’t gone away, a fact that was underscored by the U.S. election. The U.S. Postal Service still processes nearly 182 million first-class letters on a typical day. Thanks to technology germinated in the cloud, those printed pieces are getting some ...
Apple tops estimates but won’t forecast upcoming quarter, sending shares down
Fueled by strong growth in iPads and Macs during a broad global shift to employees working from home, Apple Inc. posted record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $64.7 billion and a profit of 73 cents a share, slightly beating Wall Street estimates on both fronts. However, the company’s stock fell more than 5% after hours, probably in response ...