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Dell reports solid growth despite continuing storage struggles
Despite weak storage growth, Dell Technologies Inc.’s overall business picture continued to strengthen in its fourth fiscal quarter thanks to a record year for its servers and networking gear. The computing and storage giant today reported revenue growth that outpaced expenses as well as improving cash flow, a key consideration given a huge amount of ...
AtScale’s universal business intelligence layer adds support for data lakes
AtScale Inc. today updated its business intelligence abstraction platform with support for data lakes of any size and simpler migration of analytics workloads across business intelligence tools. The company said AtScale 6.5 enables users of BI tools to share queries freely with each other, regardless of which front end they prefer. AtScale’s technology provides an abstraction layer ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’
MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups — along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, the company originally focused on integrating and extending components in the Hadoop ecosystem. ...
Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business
When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to their prayers: red-hot software with the funny name of Hadoop. Hadoop distributes and ...
Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios
Cloudera Inc. is continuing its push into cloud analytics with enhancements to its Altus platform as a service that provide a shared data catalog and contextual consistency to data coming from multiple sources. The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new features make Cloudera Altus with SDX (Shared Data Experience) the best platform for applications that need ...
MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up support for containers with a new feature of its Converged Data Platform that provides for persistent storage and enables the use of stateful containerized applications in an automated, cross-platform environment. MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes is intended to provide consistent data access across cloud and on-premises deployments. Support for ...
Waterline targets data-discovery tool at organizations confronting GDPR deadline
With the May 25 implementation date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, Waterline Data Inc. today is unveiling the Waterline Data Discovery Platform, a data discovery tool that the company saids can dramatically accelerate the process of identifying and organizing an organization’s data assets. The Waterline Data Discovery Platform uses machine learning ...
Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings
VMware Inc. beat forecasts for its fiscal fourth-quarter results, but the news did nothing to ease the beating the stock took today. That’s because of news earlier today that Dell Technologies Inc. had filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that indicated it may go ahead with a reverse merger with VMware that ...
Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates
With competitors from Microsoft Corp. to Oracle Corp. training their guns on Salesforce.com Inc.’s core customer relationship management business, many market watchers have been wondering when the company’s torrid growth rate will slow. They’re still wondering. The CRM giant once again topped estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter, reporting net income of $67.6 million, or ...
Cloudian raises $25M in cash, $100M in credit to fund shift to consumption-based pricing
Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is joining the “composable infrastructure” trend with a combined round of investment and loan financing that will enable it to offer pay-by-the-drink licensing. Composable infrastructure is a cloud-inspired approach to deployment and licensing that virtualizes compute, storage and network resources and delivers them as services. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. ...