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IBM refreshes Linux mainframes with security optimized for software containers
Continuing its quest to find relevance for big iron in the age of open systems, IBM Corp. today is announcing a new generation of its LinuxONE mainframes with built-in security for Docker containers and support for Kubernetes orchestration. The announcement comes just a little more than two years after IBM entered the Linux-on-mainframe market via ...
Data Artisans offers smoother on-ramp to stream processing with Apache Flink
Organizations that want to implement stream processing are about to get another boost with a new release of the commercial version of Apache Flink from data Artisans GmbH, a company founded by Flink’s creators. Apache Flink was created to replace the MapReduce component in the big-data software framework Hadoop with a faster engine that can ...
Streamlio bundles open-source projects into real-time streaming engine for enterprises
Startup Streamlio Inc. is betting that organizations are ready for real-time streaming architectures to process their basic data needs, and now it has brought three of the latest open-source technologies to bear on the process. The company’s new real-time analytics suite incorporates the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe engine with Heron, a real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine originally developed at Twitter ...
Dell reports solid quarter despite continued weakness in storage sales
Dell Technologies Inc. slipped to a loss in the second fiscal quarter of 2018 and said enterprise storage revenues undershot targets, but investors seemed largely unfazed, boosting the stock about a half-percentage point in early New York Stock Exchange trading. Consolidated revenue rose 48 percent from a year ago, to $19.3 billion, and gross margins ...
HPE posts strong earnings, but investors are still doubtful
Updated Wednesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. finally gave investors something to smile about after a string of disappointing earnings results, handily beating revenue and earnings per share targets and finally showing some year-over-year revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter. Investors rewarded the company with a nearly 5 percent boost in its share price in ...
AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’
Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play the first four moves on both sides. That makes solving chess problems unimaginably difficult. That’s one reason the game has long captured ...
Surge in big enterprise deals drives Nutanix toward $1B in annual revenue
Investors who might have wondered whether Nutanix Inc.’s solid earnings report in its previous quarter was a one-hit wonder are breathing easier this evening. The maker of hyperconverged systems and software today said it handily beat revenue and earnings estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter on a surge in large deals. Investors bid shares up more ...
Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications
Thanks to strong growth in new and renewing customers, Workday Inc. today easily exceeded revenue estimates for the fiscal second quarter and raised guidance for the remainder of the year. But investors who have already watched shares rise more than 62 percent this year apparently wanted even more. Workday stock rose less than half a ...
Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase
Seeking to expand both its range of products and platforms, Syncsort Inc. has acquired Metron Technology, Ltd., a Taunton, U.K.-based provider of capacity management software that specializes in forecasting, modeling and planning complex systems, for an undisclosed amount. Capacity planning has become a more complex and analytics-driven discipline with the addition of new variables like ...
VMware broadens endpoint management support with Workspace ONE enhancements
VMware Inc. today said it has broadened platform support in its Workspace ONE endpoint management suite to now include Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, iOS and Android. Workspace ONE will also now integrate application programming interfaces from major endpoint platform providers to stay current with updates and new versions. Workspace ONE provides a single platform for ...