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Shares of big-data firm Cloudera rise as it tops earnings targets
Big-data specialist Cloudera Inc. delivered solid third-quarter financial results today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue and following up with strong guidance for the current quarter. The company, which sells data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics software to enterprises, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 15 cents per share. ...
Netenrich debuts its Intelligent Security Operations Center
Cybersecurity firm Netenrich Inc. today announced the general availability of its Intelligent Security Operations Center that’s aimed at helping midsized enterprises and managed service providers better manage their cybersecurity investments according to their evolving needs. Many large enterprises run Security Operations Centers, special teams dedicated to monitoring and analyzing their security posture on an ongoing basis. ...
Cohesity’s data protection software now available as a service
Data management software company Cohesity Inc. said today its core data protection software is now available via software as a service to all customers for the first time. Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service is available in the U.S. today through resellers and the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. It’s billed by the company as an ...
Alkira extends its cloud network-as-a-service offering
Networking-as-a-service startup Alkira Inc. today announced the next step in its goal to provide enterprises with complete end-to-end connectivity as a service, launching what it calls a “Cloud Backbone-as-a-Service” into general availability. The company is one worth watching, since it has come a long way already since its launch in April. Alkira operates what it ...
Shares of analytics firm Splunk go splat as it falls well short of expectations
Big-data analytics giant Splunk Inc. was left reeling today after missing on its third-quarter earnings and revenue targets and offering guidance for the next quarter that fell way short of expectations. The company’s stock lost more than 23% of its value on Thursday after it reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation ...
As Snowflake reports first earnings since IPO, investors cheer results and outlook
Updated: Cloud data warehouse phenom Snowflake Inc. put in a strong showing in its first-ever quarterly results as a public company today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue. But it offered a forecast for product revenue in the current quarter that fell short of expectations, and that sent its stock down after-hours. Update: Investors quickly changed ...
Harness integrates its continuous software delivery platform with Amazon ECS
Continuous software delivery startup Harness Inc. said today it’s integrating its platform with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Container Service in a move that will enable users to run applications in Docker containers with less scripting and redundancy. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that rivals the better known open-source Kubernetes service. ...
In shot at Microsoft, Amazon announces open-source Babelfish database translation tool
Amazon Web Services Inc. declared war on its rivals Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today with the launch of a new service that makes it easier to migrate Structured Query Language databases to the AWS cloud. Announced during Amazon’s virtual AWS re:Invent 2020 event, the new service is called Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. It’s meant ...
Amazon brings machine learning to industry, developers and contact centers
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s trying to embed more intelligence into the industrial sector with a number of new machine learning tools and services aimed at helping customers monitor their workers, the machines and equipment they operate, and the environments they work in. The new machine learning services, plus a range of others, were ...
HPE and NetApp surprise Wall Street with strong earnings
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and NetApp Inc. both managed to surprise Wall Street today, posting strong quarterly financial results that beat analysts’ expectations, even as the market for data center hardware continues to decline. HPE also raised a few eyebrows with the news that it’s planning to relocate its corporate headquarters from San Jose, California, to ...