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MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release
MarkLogic Corp. is strengthening data integration features, enhancing security and improving workload management capabilities via support for containers in the first major new release of its namesake NoSQL database management system since the debut of version 9.0 two years ago. The company, which claimed its NoSQL engine is as fast and scalable as relational alternatives, ...
As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential
Fear and loathing about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is apparently giving way to cautious optimism as organizations prepare for the new laws to take effect a week from Friday. A new IBM Corp. survey released today finds that executive opinions toward the new privacy regulations are now broadly positive, even though the majority say ...
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Surprise! Converged systems are now cheaper to buy and run than hand-rolled solutions
Information technology organizations should abandon their traditional “roll your own” practices in favor of converged and hyperconverged systems from a handful of providers for transaction-intensive workloads. That’s the conclusion of a new cost-of-ownership report and detailed analysis by Wikibon, a sister company of SiliconANGLE. Wikibon analyst David Floyer conducted rigorous financial analysis to compare the total costs of ownership ...
Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in
Investors appeared to take Talend SA’s narrow earnings miss Thursday uncharacteristically hard, but it turns out the reason had little to do with its earnings report. The data integration company reported a first-quarter loss of 19 cents per share, a penny worse than consensus estimates of a loss of 18 cents. However, revenues jumped 42 ...
Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls
Updated: Hortonworks Inc. beat Wall Street expectations on both revenues and profits in its first quarter and guided expectations higher for both its current quarter and the full year. Revenue jumped 41 percent from a year ago, to $79.1 million, ahead of analysts’ average forecast of $75.3 million. An even more important milestone for investors and ...
ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights
ThoughtSpot Inc. took a big step forward in its bid to shake up the data analytics market with the closing of an oversubscribed $145 million Series D funding round announced today. The company has now raised $306 million in its bid to challenge incumbents such as Tableau Software Inc. and Qlik Inc. with a platform that ...
Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app
Data integration company Talend SA is quickening its march to the cloud with a free application for use in Amazon Web Services Inc. environments. Talend Data Streams is intended to simplify and speed the ingestion of large volumes of real-time data on a self-service basis. Available in the Amazon Marketplace now, it will become part of a suite ...
IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support
IBM Corp. is expanding its commitment to move large swaths of its software portfolio to application containers while tightening its relationship with Red Hat Inc. In an announcement to be made at Red Hat Summit Tuesday, IBM said it will extend its recently announced Cloud Private and Cloud Private for Data platforms, as well as its ...
Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors
Tableau Software Inc. today provided the strongest evidence yet that its shift from a software license model to subscription pricing is bearing fruit. Its first-quarter revenue of $224 million beat Wall Street’s estimates as well as the company’s own guidance, sending shares up nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading. Although Tableau’s net loss per share of ...
SnapLogic’s new cloud-based data integration platform will even manage the servers for you
Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is taking its platform to the cloud with an extension that nontechnical users can employ to create complex data processes. Those processes can run on cloud-based Apache Hadoop platforms such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic MapReduce, Microsoft Corp.’s HDInsight and Google Inc.’s Cloud Dataproc. SnapLogic eXtreme can be used to build integration logic that’s automatically ...