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Instart Logic snags top VMware exec as CEO to push growth agenda
Instart Logic Inc., a richly funded startup that’s trying to disrupt the content delivery industry, has appointed a former top VMware Inc. executive as its chief executive. Sumit Dhawan took the reins today, promising to accelerate the company’s growth and awareness of its mission to “change the experience of how we live digitally.” Dhawan was ...
VMware outlines plan to take on-premises, remote and cloud infrastructure all virtual
VMware Inc. is using this week’s Dell Technologies World 2018 conference in Las Vegas this week to outline a vision for end-to-end networking that’s long on promise and short on specifics. The company is also cozying up to Microsoft Corp. with improved support for the Azure infrastructure-as-a-service platform, underscoring earlier statements that its partnership with ...
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Finally comfy in the cloud? Get ready for another jolt: serverless computing
Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around cloud computing, another revolutionary concept is on the way. “Serverless computing,” as it’s called, promises to deliver unprecedented improvements in speed, simplicity and cost that may upend traditional assumptions about how information technology is delivered. Even as the cloud continues to disrupt traditional tech ...
Microsoft shares hit all-time high as cloud business nearly doubles again
For those who been wondering how long Microsoft Corp. can continue the blistering growth of its cloud infrastructure business, the answer is: We still don’t know. The desktop and cloud computing giant rode 93 percent growth in its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service business to $22 billion in fiscal third-quarter revenue, up 15.5 percent over the same period ...
Dremio adds machine learning to self-service data analytics platform
Dremio Corp. is folding machine learning into its self-service data analytics platform, boosting performance and integrating with Looker Data Science Inc.’s namesake business intelligence query engine. Dremio claims to eliminate the need for time-consuming data transformation tasks needed to load information into data warehouses, multidimensional cubes and aggregation tables for business intelligence uses. Its Data ...
ServiceNow revenues soar on stronger sales to existing customers
Updated: The ServiceNow Inc. express continues to rumble along: The maker of an expanding portfolio of workflow automation software today announced first-quarter revenue and profit that easily beat Wall Street estimates. Revenue growth continued at a 40 percent pace, even as the company sailed past a $2 billion annual run rate toward a $4 billion ...
IBM beats earnings forecasts but growth fails to wow investors, and its shares fall
Updated: Nearly everything about IBM Corp.’s business improved in its first quarter, but nothing took investors’ breath away. As expected, IBM logged its second consecutive quarter of revenue growth after 22 straight quarters of decline, but the growth was mostly the result of exchange rate fluctuations. Revenue and earnings per share both beat analysts’ expectations, ...
What stock market volatility? Tech giants could turn in strong earnings next week
The tech earnings season starts in earnest Tuesday following several weeks of unusual stock market volatility that has investors on pins and needles. Their spirits can’t have been boosted by one early report: Cloudera Inc.’s April 2 bombshell announcement that it expects full-year revenues to come in about 4 percent below analysts’ estimates. In the recent ...
The grim state of cybersecurity: It’s awful, and it’s only going to get worse
This year has witnessed the embarrassing disclosure of 119,000 documents left on an unprotected server by Fedex Corp., a similar compromise of 37 million customer records by Panera Bread Co., the theft of up to 5 million records of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor customers, ransomware attacks at Boeing Co. and the City ...
Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases
Datrium Inc., which makes a scalable hyperconverged platform with built-in backup and disaster recovery features, today released version 4.0 of its DVX operating software, its third major release in less than a year. The new version supports Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters, provides for greater virtual machine fault tolerance and improves data administration and security. The ...