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Software AG says it has turned the corner in shift to a subscription business
Saying that a two-year campaign to transition its business from license to subscription revenue is bearing fruit, Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG today said its second-quarter revenues grew 10%, to $257.4 million in constant currency, driven by a 17% jump in product revenue and 95% growth in the proportion of those sales powered by subscriptions. Product revenue ...
Google’s Looker facelift aimed at enhancing developer appeal
Google LLC is giving the Looker business intelligence platform it acquired early last year a major upgrade. A new release announced today features a developer portal, support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure hosting, an interactive means to explore application programming interfaces and incremental persistent derived tables. Google is intent on repositioning Looker as a development platform that goes beyond ...
Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service
Dremio Corp., developer of a self-service data analytics technology based on the Apache Arrow in-memory columnar data processing framework, today announced a version of its product delivered as a managed cloud service. Dremio Cloud leverages a no-copy data architecture that enables analytics users to access data in a data lake without extensive transformation and schema ...
Snowflake edges into security market through Securonix partnership
In a move that a Snowflake Inc. executive described as the company’s entry into the cybersecurity market, the data cloud company today announced an alliance with Securonix Inc., maker of a cloud-native security information and event management system. The deal is a nonexclusive partnership at this point and Snowflake has no plans to compete against ...
Pure Storage makes FlashStack converged platform available as a service
Pure Storage Inc. today expanded its storage as-a-service options to include its FlashStack converged infrastructure product and also modified its Portworx cloud storage service to align costs to actual hours of usage. FlashStack, which was jointly developed by Pure Storage and Cisco Systems Inc. is software-defined infrastructure that combines Cisco’s Unified Computing System with flash storage in a ...
IBM revenue grows for second straight quarter, cheering investors
IBM Corp. provided the best evidence yet today that it’s back on a growth track, reporting that second-quarter revenue rose 3% from a year ago. Revenue of $18.75 billion was actually flat when adjusted for currency fluctuations and divested businesses, but it was still well ahead of analysts’ estimates of $18.29 billion. Adjusted earnings rose 7% from ...
Gartner sees strong bounceback in global tech spending led by cloud and devices
Worldwide information technology spending is projected to total $4.2 trillion in 2021, up of 8.6% from 2020, according to a new forecast today by Gartner Inc. After a trough amid the pandemic-related slowdown in 2020, when spending grew just 0.9%, investments are accelerating ahead of anticipated revenue growth despite the current sluggishness. Business leaders are more ...
Platform9 adds KubeVirt support for integrated container and virtual machine management
Platform9 Systems Inc. today added support for KubeVirt, an interface for running virtual machines alongside the encapsulated software environments called containers, to its platform for managing workloads with the Kubernetes container orchestrator. Platform9 Managed KubeVirt is being released as an open-source project that gives users running those hybrid workloads a single control plane. The product ...
Red Hat boost automation features in Kubernetes cluster management
Red Hat Inc. today announced new automation features in version 2.3 of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, a tool that provides greater flexibility for managing and scaling hybrid and multicloud environments in a unified and automated way. The new release features integration with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, which is an enterprise ...
Broadcom reported in talks to buy closely held SAS Institute
Broadcom Corp. is in talks to buy Cary, North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc. in a deal that would value the closely held SAS at between $15 billion and $20 billion, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said the deal could be finalized within weeks. It would give ...