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Google Cloud doubles down on customer success with new AI practice and consulting centers
Google Cloud revealed today it’s boosting its Customer Experience organization to help its cloud infrastructure users’ chances of success. To that end, it said today it’s introducing a new Custom AI Solutions practice, new Global Delivery Centers, expanded Executive Briefing Centers and also hiring new executive leaders of its own. In a blog post, John Jester, ...
IBM offers to help customers move SAP S/4HANA workloads to its cloud
IBM Corp. said today it’s teaming up with enterprise technology giant SAP SE to help companies move mission-critical SAP workloads to its public cloud infrastructure. The company said today’s launch of a premium suppler option with IBM for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud will provide both the technology and the consulting expertise needed to help ...
Rapid7 wraps up fiscal 2021 with earnings and revenue beat
Cybersecurity and compliance technology provider Rapid7 Inc. ended its fiscal 2021 year on a high after posting fourth-quarter results today that beat expectations. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of $8.9 million, or 16 cents per share, on revenue of $151.6 million. That was up 34% from the same ...
Twilio’s stock makes strong gains following fourth-quarter revenue beat
Application infrastructure firm Twilio Inc. beat expectations on revenue as it delivered its fourth-quarter financial results today and followed with a strong outlook for the next three months, sending its stock sky-high in extended trading. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of $27.2 million, or 20 cents per share, ...
Vast Data partners with Commvault to deliver high-performance data backup and restore
Storage firm Vast Data Inc. said today it’s partnering with the data protection and management provider Commvault Systems Inc. on a modern, integrated backup service for organizations worried about looming cybersecurity threats, disasters or rogue employees. The new service combines Vast Data’s all-flash Universal Storage platform with Commvault’s Complete Data Protection offering to create rapid ...
Data protection outfit Clumio reveals strong growth on AWS Cloud
Data protection startup Clumio Inc. revealed some impressive numbers today that show how it has grown its user base since switching to focus primarily on protecting Amazon Web Services Inc.’s customers. The company revealed its AWS customer base has grown by more than 400%, while its cloud-based annual recurring revenue jumped by 450% in the ...
Dynatrace brings observability to multicloud serverless architectures
Application performance management company Dynatrace Inc. said today it’s extending its observability and advanced AIOps capabilities to all major serverless computing platforms. Serverless computing is a cloud computing model where infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will manage computer servers on behalf of their customers. The advantage of this is ...
New Relic’s stock tumbles on earnings miss and lower guidance
Observability company New Relic Inc. took a beating in the extended trading session today after a third-quarter financial report that beat expectations on revenue but missed on earnings. The company followed up with light guidance and its stock price tumbled, losing more than 23% of its value in after-hours trading. New Relic reported a net ...
GlobalFoundries hits the ground running, beating forecasts in first earnings since IPO
Contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc. posted strong fourth-quarter results today, with earnings and revenue that beat expectations, in its first earnings report since going public late last year. The company followed up with a higher outlook that sent its stock up slightly in after-hours trading. GlobalFoundries reported an operating loss for the period of $491 ...
API connectivity firm Kong’s latest release delivers lower latency, higher throughput
Kong Inc. today announced a big update to its popular application programming interface connectivity platform, delivering big improvements in both latency and throughput, resulting in faster speeds and higher capacity for users. Kong Enterprise 2.7 is a connectivity platform that connects APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using ...