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Amid strong earnings, Pure Storage unveils its hybrid cloud play with AWS
Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. built on a strong third-quarter showing with the announcement of new block storage, data protection and deduplication services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company recorded a fiscal third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 13 cents per share. Revenue rose 34 percent from a ...
Cato Networks improves its ability to detect and resolve network outages
Networking specialist Cato Networks Ltd. says it’s getting better at monitoring performance fluctuations and resolving issues such as brownouts and blackouts more effectively. The company, which sells a software-defined wide-area network service, today introduced an intelligent “last mile management service” to its flagship Cato Cloud SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a specific application of software-defined networking technology ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 makes its debut
Four years on from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, open source software company Red Hat Inc. finally announced today that version 8 of its computer server operating system is now in beta. A lot has changed in the world of Linux during that time, with vastly more workloads running in public clouds and ...
Oracle buys SD-WAN company Talari Networks
Oracle Corp. said today it’s acquiring a software-defined wide area network company called Talari Networks Inc. in order to build out its cloud and networking businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Talari’s main product is its Failsafe technology, which is an SD-WAN platform used to connect enterprise networks such as branch offices ...
AWS debuts Amazon Corretto, a free version of the OpenJDK Java kit
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a little stab at rival Oracle Corp. with the introduction today of Amazon Corretto, which ensures that Java is freely accessible to all of its users for the foreseeable future. Amazon Corretto is a free multiplatform and production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit, which is used by ...
NetApp puts on a brave face as its stock slides on disappointing guidance
Data storage company NetApp Inc. easily topped Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates thanks to strong sales of its all-flash storage arrays that led to a big boost in its annual revenue run rate. But the performance was undone by somewhat disappointing guidance for the next quarter, sending its stock down by almost 6 percent in ...
Cisco shows steady earnings progress as all of its businesses grow
Cisco Systems Inc. comfortably beat fiscal first-quarter expectations today thanks to higher customer spending on applications and cybersecurity tools. The networking giant posted earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 75 cents per share. Revenue rose 8 percent from a year ago, to $13.1 billion. Wall Street was hoping for a profit of just 72 ...
Scalyr’s application monitoring platform adds Kubernetes to the mix
Cloud-based application monitoring startup Scalyr Inc. today is updating its platform to make it easier to monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments. The company is also adding support for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s CloudWatch monitoring and management service. Scalyr stepped up into the spotlight late last year when it secured a $20 million early-stage funding round led ...
ThoughtSpot adds voice search to its business intelligence platform
Business intelligence software provider ThoughtSpot Inc. is adding a new feature called SearchIQ in the latest release of its platform today. The update provides natural language processing and search-by-voice capabilities via an intelligent layer that sits atop of ThoughtSpot’s existing relational search engine. What this means is that users can now ask questions about their ...
Robotic process automation firm UiPath grabs more funding at $3B valuation
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. seems to know a thing or two about getting investors to part with their cash. The company, which recently landed a massive $225 million Series C funding round led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture arm, early today said it has closed on an “extension” of that round with an ...