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New CEO? No problem. Pure Storage beats forecasts and sees $1B in 2018 revenue
Pure Storage Inc. didn’t miss a beat in its transition to a new chief executive, beating Wall Street earnings estimates and forecasting that it will turn a profit next quarter and become a $1 billion company next year. Three months after closing out a strong quarter by shifting Chief Executive Scott Dietzen out of an operational role ...
VMware and AWS tighten partnership to make cloud migration simpler
Longtime rivals VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are looking even chummier these days as the companies expand their landmark partnership announced last year to make it easier for VMware customers to move their workloads easily to the Amazon cloud. Today at the AWS re:Invent conference running this week in Las Vegas, the companies announced a new ...
Cloudera rolls first application of its shared-data platform into beta test
Cloudera Inc. is rolling out the first application built on top of the Altus platform as a service it introduced in May. Cloudera Altus Analytic DB, which will soon enter beta test, is a cloud-based data warehouse designed for self-service use that works on a shared foundation of data, catalog and directory services to eliminate ...
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How big data made the ‘Paradise Papers’ revelations real
When more than 13 million secret documents detailing the offshore activities of some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations fall into a journalist’s lap, it presents an exciting dilemma. The data is potentially explosive, but how do you even extract the information tied up in millions of PDF files and emails, much less ...
HPE announces CEO Meg Whitman will step down, Antonio Neri will take over
Following yet another disappointing quarter, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that Chief Executive Meg Whitman will step down Feb. 1. The departure overshadowed mixed results for HPE’s fiscal fourth quarter and a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. Investors punished the shares, which fell nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading. Antonio Neri, who was named ...
MapR unifies data streams, ratchets up security in new platform release
MapR Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new version of its flagship Converged Data Platform, with a focus on DataOps, a variation on the DevOps rapid application development process that focuses on reducing time and improving the quality of results in data analytics projects. The 6.0 release folds in automatic platform health and security features ...
Woo plugs AI assistant into tech recruiting process
Highr Pattern Ltd., which runs a recruiting site called Woo that matches employers with passive job seekers, is joining the artificial intelligence parade with an automated headhunter that automatically scouts, approaches and connects candidates with potential employers. The company said its “Helena” assistant eliminates much of the trial-and-error of the recruitment process by using machine ...
Survey finds business executives are quickly getting on board the AI train
Big companies are notoriously slow to adopt new technology, but that isn’t how things are shaping up in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of nearly 500 business executives. The research, which was conducted by Harvard Business Review and sponsored by Apttus Inc., found that 60 percent of executives at business-to-business ...
Comtrade broadens data protection scope for Nutanix environments
Comtrade Software Inc. has boosted its Hyperconverged Uptime software for Nutanix Inc.’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. It now includes support for VMware Inc.’s ESX hypervisor along with improved support for Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange and SQL Server, combined disaster recovery and backup for remote office/back office environments and initial support for Nutanix Acropolis File Services. The Slovenia-based company, ...
Bracket says it can head off attacks operating systems don’t see
Bracket Computing Inc. has upped the ante in its security software suite with new protections against a variety of difficult-to-detect attacks. The new feature set, called Server Guard, is part of a workload isolation technology the company calls Metavisor. Similar to a hypervisor, but sitting closer to the operating system, Metavisor safeguards critical parts of ...