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Seven technologies and trends the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate
Crisis plants the seeds of ingenuity, and as the world struggles out of the COVID-19 pandemic and into an unknown new normal, it’s clear that entire industries will be transformed by innovations that have emerged to combat the disease. Store closures may accelerate in the retail industry, which was already reeling, but new e-commerce applications ...
How a big-data safety net is catching high-risk patients during pandemic’s rampage
Data analytics are often cast in the cold light of financial forecasts and factory plans, but the COVID-19 pandemic has offered a look at how the same tools can be used to better the human condition. At Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc., a Massachusetts-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization, enterprise data warehousing and visualization are literally saving the ...
HPE revenue plunges, sparking new round of cost cuts
Updated: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today reported sharply lower revenues in its fiscal second quarter and said it would initiate salary reductions and unpaid leaves to adapt to demand declines brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues fell 15% in constant currency from a year ago, to $6.0 billion, missing consensus Wall Street estimates of ...
Grafana Labs says its visualization engine is now a full-scale observability platform
Raintank Inc.’s Grafana Labs, which is the lead developer of the Grafana and Loki open-source projects used to visualize time series data, today announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with faster visualizations and features to simplify the development of custom plugins. The platform is based upon the open-source Grafana query and visualization project, which ...
Two security startups independently chip away at passwords
Two startups are separately tackling the task of eliminating passwords from standard online interactions with new products announced today. Identité Inc. is rolling out a mobile app-based authentication system that it says eliminates the need for passwords while also shortening the login process. Volterra Inc., a maker of software for distributing applications that emerged from stealth ...
Microsoft leads $30M funding round for FortressIQ’s process improvement technology
FortressIQ Inc., the maker of an operational improvement platform that uses machine learning to observe and recommend improvements to business processes, today announced it has raised $30 million in a new funding round. The Series B round was led by Microsoft Corp.’s M12 venture fund and Tiger Global Management LLC. It comes nearly 18 months after ...
Talend earnings impress but company withdraws full-year guidance
Talend SA showed no ill effects from its recent chief executive transition today as the data integration provider soundly beat both revenue and earnings estimates in its first quarter. Revenues rose just over 18% over the same period last year, to $68.1 million, beating consensus estimates of $64.9 million. The company’s net loss of 13 cents ...
IBM CEO says pandemic will be a turning point for digital transformation
In a keynote address that was light on specifics but long on intentions, new IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna today promised to make IBM more responsive to the industries in which its customers operate, easier to work with and dedicated to developing technologies and services for hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. Krishna, who was appointed ...
Orca raises $20M for nonintrusive multicloud security platform
Orca Security Ltd. today said it has secured $20 million in a Series A funding to advance its novel cybersecurity approach. The company claims it can find vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, weak passwords, lateral movement risks, secret keys and sensitive data such as personally identifiable information in cloud environments without the use of software agents. Orca’s technology, ...
Dremio’s AWS-specific data lake query engine comes with a nice price: $0
Dremio Corp., a self-service analytics company whose technology is based on the Apache Arrow columnar processing engine, today is introducing a data lake query engine that’s purpose-built for Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. It also announced two new technologies that it said provide for on-demand service delivery and reduced cloud infrastructure costs. And in a ...