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Pure Storage posts 167% revenue growth in first post-IPO earnings report
Wall Street’s initial skepticism about Pure Storage Inc. may have been misplaced. Shares of the flash storage vendor are up over seven points from their post-IPO slump in October following the release of its first earnings call since becoming a public company, which paints a markedly better picture than the last report. Revenue increased a massive 167 percent ...
Target’s legal bill from the 2013 holiday season mega-breach tops $300 million
If there’s one retailer that won’t need any reminders about the importance of proper security this holiday season, it’s Target Corporation. The discount chain’s losses from the Black Friday breach that claimed the financial details of more than 40 million consumers two years ago has officially passed the $300 million mark this week after management ...
Debian GNU/Linux comes to Microsoft’s Azure
The fact Windows and Linux have been competing for decades is but a small triviality in Microsoft Corp.’s plans to rekindle its ties with the open-source ecosystem. The latest beneficiary of the push is Debian, which today became the seventh distribution of the free operating system to receive native support on Azure through a partnership ...
Here’s how Dell plans to pay back its debt from the EMC merger
Dell Inc. is having an almost suspiciously hard time keeping the lid on its plans to sell the market on its record-breaking acquisition of EMC Corp for $67 billion. Unnamed insiders leaked this week that the company is negotiating with a group of big-name private equity firms to offload several of its secondary businesses in ...
CoreOS introduces full-stack security for rkt containers
Security is the new competitive battleground for containers Merely two weeks after Docker Inc. released a set of access control features to help prevent intrusions into production deployments of its namesake platform, CoreOS Inc. is upping the ante with a competing cryptographic framework that provides protection against tampering all the way down to the firmware. ...
Dynamics CRM 2016 launches with Cortana-powered analytics
Bob Stutz, the former Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the development of Dynamics CRM 2016, wasn’t around to announce the news of its launch this week following his recent defection to Salesforce.com Inc. Fortunately, newly prompted right-hand man Jujhar Singh had no trouble stepping up to the plate. The latest iteration of Redmond’s customer relationship ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise brings the cloud DevOps experience on-premise
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise apparently didn’t need much time to get used to operating as an independent company. Merely a month after separating from its former consumer electronics arm, the data center equipment giant is unveiling a new kind of converged system that promises to change the way applications are run behind the firewall. It’s the culmination ...
What you missed in Big Data: Scaling analytics
The analytics ecosystem grew a little bigger last week with the launch of a new open-source project from IBM Corp. that aims to help simplify the development of machine learning models for data crunching applications. The aptly-named SystemML framework is a product of the company’s work on Watson that abstracts away many of the complicated ...
What you missed in Cloud: A blast from the past
The public cloud returned to its roots last week after Amazon Inc. rolled out a dedicated hosting option that allows users to rent out entire servers in its data centers for the first time. The service is offered as an alternative to regular virtual instances for organizations that wish to make use of software licenses ...
After pulling the plug on its public cloud, HPE turns to former rivals
Much like counterpart Satya Nadella at Microsoft Corp., Meg Whitman isn’t letting old rivalries stand in the way of her growth plans. Just over a month after announcing plans to shut down Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) struggling public cloud, the chief executive has revealed a partnership with Redmond to fill the gap with its once competing ...