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IBM revenues fall again, but turnaround looks closer than ever
Beating analysts’ estimates on earnings-per-share and revenues in its third quarter, IBM Corp. today provided evidence that it may be turning the corner on its ongoing transformation into what it calls a “cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.” Quarterly earnings per share of $3.29 beat consensus estimates of $3.23. Revenue from continuing operations was $19.2 ...
Dell’s annual user event to underscore the power of two
When Michael Dell steps off the stage from delivering the opening keynote at Dell EMC World 2016 in Austin on Wednesday, he’ll be followed by David Goulden, the new president of Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure solutions group and formerly a top executive at EMC. That juxtaposition will carry much symbolic significance. Ever since Dell announced its takeover ...
Talon eases storage provisioning with new CloudFast release
Talon Storage Solutions Inc. today is releasing a new version of its CloudFAST distributed cloud storage platform for Microsoft Windows, featuring new options for procurement, licensing, deployment and provisioning. The company is also improving its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to enable IT organizations to better manage availability and performance using Talon’s tools as well as Microsoft’s System ...
Pentaho eases data handling process with visualization everywhere
Pentaho Corp. is giving data engineers and analysts access to the same tools as business end-users in Pentaho Business Analytics 7.0, which is launching today. The new release also features simplified deployment options, improved capabilities for handling Spark data streams and expanded Hadoop data security. The most significant improvement is that Pentaho will now make it ...
Postman attracts $7M to build API team development platform
With an average five-star rating across more than 7,000 reviews on the Google Chrome Web store, Postdot Technologies Inc. thinks it has a good thing going with Postman, a tool for building, testing and documenting application program interfaces. Now it has raised $7 million to see how much further it can go. Introduced in 2012, the ...
Live data editor highlights major new Atlassian Confluence release
Atlassian Corp. PLC is using its annual user conference to overhaul its Confluence workflow system with a new live-content feature that enables teams to collaborate on production data. Confluence is a collaboration and wiki platform oriented toward professional development teams. It enables groups to share the many planning documents, schedules, notes and comments that are ...
Shared cloud folders becoming prime malware source, study finds
Enterprises may be embracing the cloud, but they’re not being very careful about doing so, according to a new survey. While cloud usage is on the rise, so are anxieties about the security of public cloud services. The cloud is also becoming a petri dish for malware. The survey of 643 business professionals in the U.S. ...
Elasticsearch seeks big data mainstream with software bundle
Elasticsearch Global BV is continuing its quest to build a business based upon open-source software with a bundle of products anchored by its Elasticsearch search engine and targeted at big data applications. Elastic Stack 5.0 bands together a suite of products that were previously offered separately, including the Kibana visualization engine, Beats data shipper, Logstash log data ...
IBM offers Watson certification
Having defined a vision it calls “cognitive computing,” IBM Corp. is seeking to put some structure around it with a certification program for developers who use the artificial intelligence platform. IBM says its Watson Application Developer Certification is intended to “help developers distinguish and validate their skills as well as connect with companies looking to ...
Hybrid storage unicorn Infinidat embraces compression, iSCSI
Infinidat Inc., which raised $150 million last year to build a hybrid storage array, is today announcing version 3.0 of its InfiniBox storage system, featuring improved scalability, inline data compression, integrated performance analytics and full support for the iSCSI storage transmission protocol. Infinidat said InfiniBox now provides more than one million inputs/outputs per second, with ...