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Red Sox seek to reinvent the fan experience at America’s most beloved ballpark™
The Boston Red Sox are so proud of their 110-year-old stadium that the team has trademarked the slogan “America’s most beloved ballpark” to describe it. But although watching a game from one of Fenway Park’s 37,673 seats may provoke a twinge of nostalgia, getting into and around the place can be a bit of a ...
Zoom adds ‘bring your own key’ encryption to its conferencing service
Continuing to address security issues that emerged during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom Video Communications Inc. has added support for customer-provided encryption to its popular videoconferencing service. Zoom Customer Managed Key is aimed primarily at customers in heavily regulated industries like healthcare and financial services. It comes on the heels of increased ...
Nutanix CEO says demand slowdown hasn’t materialized
While basking in the glow of a fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report that blew away analysts’ expectations, Nutanix Inc. CEO Rajiv Ramaswami is remaining cautious about predicting an end to the supply chain shortages that caused the maker of hyperconverged infrastructure software to cut forecasts for the quarter just three months ago. The supply of hardware ...
Ahana throws its weight behind Meta’s new Velox unified execution engine
Ahana Cloud Inc., developer of a managed version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today said it’s making significant commitments to supporting further development of the Velox open-source database acceleration library initially developed by Meta Platforms Inc. The company joins Intel Corp. and ByteDance Ltd. as primary contributors to the project, which was announced today. Released ...
Prosimo abstracts networks for multicloud development
Prosimo Inc., creator of multicloud infrastructure for delivering applications, today introduced a set of tools for both software and network developers that abstract away much of the intricacy of working with multiple public cloud platforms. Prosimo describes the product as a “NetDevOps infrastructure-as-code toolkit.” It orchestrates cloud networking services according to the needs of applications ...
VMware user group chief: Broadcom acquisition is a good thing
There has been no small amount of handwringing over Broadcom Inc.’s planned $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc. Observers have speculated about massive job cuts and sales of large pieces of the VMware business, noting Broadcom’s historical focus on bottom-line results. But Brad Tompkins (pictured), executive director of the independent VMware User Group, is choosing ...
Informatica CEO Amit Walia says company’s pivot to the cloud is complete
Informatica Inc.’s return to the public markets last October capped a six-year turnaround that saw the firm break out of its traditional niche as a data integration software provider and re-emerge as a multifaceted data management firm. Although the company’s first post-initial public offering earnings report in February was a mixed bag and immediately preceded a ...
Zip adds renewal features to its procurement management software
Procurement management startup Greenbax Inc., which does business as Zip, today added a renewal feature to its software that provides procurement and information technology managers with advance notice on pending renewals and automated renewals of licenses and contracts. Zip said the feature saves companies money and disruption by avoiding automatic renewals at the customer’s option ...
SPECIAL REPORT: SUPERCLOUD RISING
Inside the rush to build ‘superclouds’
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. is in the midst of a massive cloud migration that will affect more than 40,000 systems and applications across the globe running on everything from Windows servers to mainframes. The company has already moved 68% of its workloads to the public cloud and aims to slim down from three data centers ...
Informatica tops estimates, says demand remains strong but it’s being ‘prudent’
Data integration firm Informatica Inc. posted second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street estimates and said its business shows no signs of slowing amid recessionary fears. Revenue rose 9% year-over-year, to $372.0 million, led by a 24% increase in subscription revenues, to $207.0 million. The loss of one cent per share in the quarter was ...