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Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift
Hyperconverged infrastructure maker Maxta Inc. will support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift Container Platform, giving users who want to migrate from VMware Inc. vSphere virtualized environment to Red Hat the ability to do so without disrupting their container environment. Containers are lightweight, self-contained environments that enable applications to be easily moved between different underlying platforms. Maxta said its private cloud infrastructure ...
Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends
The 2016 forecast by Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff (pictured) that his company would reach $20 billion in annual revenues by 2020 struck many people as pretty audacious at the time. Not anymore. With another blowout quarter under its belt and no meaningful competition on the horizon, the company now believes it can record as ...
Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth
Splunk Inc. handily swept past Wall Street estimates on both revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter, but a slowdown in new-customer acquisition didn’t sit well with investors, who knocked shares back more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue jumped 37 percent, to $311.6 million, from the same quarter a year ago, easily ...
MariaDB guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine
MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive proprietary products. The company said MariaDB TX 3.0 is the first enterprise open-source database to provide full Oracle compatibility, including support for sequences and a stored procedure language that ...
Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. is giving developers a free way to access its authentication service by exposing an application program interface they can use to layer security controls onto a single application automatically. The company also said today that it’s expanding its access control options with a new set of contextual features dubbed ...
HPE’s fourth straight growth quarter signals turnaround, but investors aren’t buying it yet
In a boost to optimism that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.’s worst days are behind it, the company topped analysts’ estimates and its own guidance in its first quarter under new Chief Executive Antonio Neri and also raised its full-year revenue outlook. But thanks to a downbeat forecast for the second half of the fiscal year from Neri (pictured), ...
Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features
Cloudera Inc. is appealing to the hearts and minds of data scientists and data engineers with a series of new features and products intended to make them more organized and productive. The software the big-data company introduced today at the Strata conference in London include machine learning capabilities that it said make it easier for data ...
Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast
Pure Storage Inc. today beat the high end of its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter but issued guidance that appeared to disappoint growth-hungry investors. The flash storage maker’s revenue rose 40 percent, to $255.9 million, over the same quarter a year ago and slightly exceeded the high end of the guidance executives set ...
Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices
The chaos that engulfs the scene of a mass shooting is often the gunman’s best friend. First responders lose precious minutes trying to determine the location of the shooter. In the scramble to get out the doors, some people tragically run into the path of the assailant. Caught by surprise, victims may be unable to ...
LinkedIn quickens pace of Sales Navigator enhancements
Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn subsidiary is picking up the pace of enhancements to its Sales Navigator lead development and nurturing software with the second set of major enhancements in less than four months. In addition, the company today added five new vendors to the list of integration partners in its Sales Navigator Application Platform (Snap) program, which was ...