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Microsoft teams with Docker to dive deeper into open source
Microsoft Corp. is stepping up its commitment to the open-source software movement. It’s doing so amid an evolving information technology landscape that’s becoming increasingly reliant on the idea of distributed applications that run on multiple computing platforms. Enterprises today employ a mix of different clouds and runtime systems and use a variety of provisioning tools ...
Developers get access to new AI tools on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. is using this week’s Connect(); 2018 developer conference to beef up the artificial intelligence offerings available on its Azure public cloud infrastructure platform. The headline of a flurry of AI announcements today is the general availability of the Azure Machine Learning Service, which is a cloud-based offering that data scientists and developers can ...
Microsoft intros AI-powered productivity tools for Visual Studio developers
Developers can now take a peek at the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio integrated development environment for building software, applications, websites and other services. The Redmond-based company this morning announced the initial preview of Visual Studio 2019 at its Connect(); developer conference, adding a bevy of new features designed to boost productivity and foster ...
Portworx enables container application portability across clouds
Cloud-native storage company Portworx Inc. is attempting to tackle the problem of software container data portability with its latest platform update. PX-Enterprise is Portworx’s cloud-native storage product for Kubernetes, which is the most widely used tool for managing software containers. Developers use software containers to build modern applications because they offer a considerable advantage by ...
Splunk blows past estimates in strong earnings report
Updated: Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. is showing no sign of slowing down, easily beating expectations as it delivered yet another strong set of financial results. The company also raised its guidance for the next quarter and its full fiscal year, and said that its chief financial officer will step down in 2020 once ...
Workday stock jumps on strong subscription revenue growth
Updated: Executives at Workday Inc. had plenty to cheer about today as the enterprise software company delivered strong third-quarter earnings that came in well above estimates. The company, which sells cloud-based human capital management and enterprise financial software, posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 31 cents per share on revenue of ...
Box beats earnings estimates as it edges toward profitability
Cloud storage company Box Inc. cheered investors today as it reported earnings that came in just above expectations. The company still posted an overall loss but managed to whip up excitement by claiming it’s on the verge of reaching profitability for the first time. Box reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation ...
Nutanix posts strong subscription revenue growth and investors cheer
Data center infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. delighted investors Tuesday evening as it turned in strong fiscal first-quarter results that show how its shift towards a subscription business model is gathering speed. Nutanix posted a first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 13 cents a share on revenue of $313.3 million. That easily ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Amazon adds a raft of application container, IoT tools to the AWS Marketplace
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking steps to raise the availability of third-party software and hardware relating to application containers and the “internet of things” on its cloud infrastructure platforms. Application containers are an important area of focus for Amazon due to the advantages they provide for developers. They enable developers to build software apps ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Amgen and Korean Air jump aboard the AWS train
Big name brands just can’t get enough of Amazon Web Services Inc., if its rate of customer acquisitions, or at least its announcements of them, is anything to go by. The company today said it has signed up another pair of marquee customers, just a day after it landed Ellie Mae Inc. and Intel Corp.’s Mobileye ...