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PREDICTIONS 2018
Security forecast: hot, with a possibility of severe storms
It was another year of frustration for enterprise security organizations as attackers continued to penetrate high-profile organizations and steal massive amounts of personal information, headlined by the 143 million records pilfered in the Equifax Inc. breach. Big data analytics and machine learning presented some intriguing possibilities to change the defense posture from prevention to detection, ...
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017
As we waited to hop into our self-driving car where we could lean back, put on a headset and enjoy some virtual reality entertainment, it occurred to us that there might be some flaws in the blockchain-based service we’d used to order up and pay for our ride. Could it be that the artificial intelligence ...
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer
In a year in which the Nasdaq hit an all-time high, venture capital dollars flowed like cheap champagne and the majority of earnings surprises were on the upside, there were plenty of winners. These companies and technologies stood out for the scope of their accomplishment or speed of acceptance: Amazon Web Services Holding onto a 40 percent-plus ...
Red Hat’s strong results fail to impress Scrooge-ish investors
Red Hat Inc. perhaps thought it was playing Santa Claus this afternoon with fiscal third-quarter profit and revenue that eclipsed Wall Street expectations. But investors were apparently in a Scrooge-like mood, bidding the open-source software company’s shares down nearly 4 percent in after-hours trading. It wasn’t clear why they weren’t satisfied, but many investors have ...
PREDICTIONS 2018
Forecast for infrastructure as a service: cloudy and unsettled
Could anyone have predicted Uber would lose its founding CEO or the price of bitcoin would jump 20fold over the course of 2017? No doubt 2018 will be just as unpredictable, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and virtual reality combine and collide. This is the ...
Adobe’s strong quarter underlines stability of its cloud-first model
Six years after shaking up the software world by announcing that it would abandon shrink-wrapped box sales in favor of cloud subscriptions, Adobe Systems Inc. continues to provide evidence of the wisdom of that strategy. The maker of such design-world mainstays as Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat handily beat Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter. ...
MindTickle snags $27M to mint smarter sales reps
MindTickle Inc. has raised $27 million to accelerate the development of its sales enablement platform and take it worldwide. The Series B round, which was led by Canaan Partners with participation from Accel, New Enterprise Associates Inc. and Qualcomm Ventures, brings the company’s total financing to $41.3 million. MindTickle said its employee onboarding, microlearning, skills ...
Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates
Datical Inc., which makes software that automates the release of databases in sync with applications, is teaming up with Pivotal Software Inc. to make it easier for users of Pivotal’s DevOps-oriented Concourse continuous development platform to use Datical services. Datical manages application database changes alongside application code and keeps everything – including code, people and processes ...
Instana scores $20M for its machine learning-based performance management
Two months after releasing its artificial intelligence-based microservices management service, Instana Inc. has secured a $20 million funding round led by Accel (formerly Accel Partners). The Series B round brings total funding to $27 million for the company, which was founded in Solingen, Germany and has its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco. The funds will ...
Accelerite takes single-pipeline approach to data transformation and analysis
Cloud management vendor Accelerite is getting into the big data business with the release today of a significantly enhanced version of what it calls an “end-to-end, self-service” analytics platform that enables data preparation, online analytics processing, visualization and collaboration to be done from a single interface. ShareInsights 2.0 can prepare and query millions of rows and ...