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SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
At VMworld, VMware pushes a ‘digital foundation’ for hybrid cloud computing
Updated: Hoping to extend its hard-won leadership in corporate data centers into the cloud computing era, VMware Inc. is using its VMworld 2018 conference that opens today to showcase its growing cloud credentials — especially in managing operations on multiple clouds. During a keynote this morning with VMware Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger (pictured) and other executives ...
Amazon adds new options and slashes the price of AWS Lightsail instances
Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small businesses and developers that either cannot afford to pay for, or do not require, full public cloud or data center services. Lightsail was ...
Big-data firm Splunk’s stock surges 17% on strong earnings
Updated: Big-data company Splunk Inc.’s share price is spiking again after another successful quarter. The company today posted a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 71 cents per share on revenue of $388.3 million, up 39 percent from the same period a year ago. Earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation came in at 8 cents ...
Intuit replaces CEO Brad Smith with EVP Sasan Goodarzi
Finance software provider Intuit Inc. saw its share price take a hit today on the news that its chief executive officer and chief technology officer are both stepping down at the end of the year. Intuit CEO Brad Smith said on Thursday that he’ll be leaving the company after 11 years in the top job, ...
Red Hat aims to help companies migrate to a modern IT infrastructure
Business enterprises aren’t shy about their desire embrace “digital transformation,” and the companies that provide much of their information technology infrastructure are falling over themselves to help make it happen. Red Hat Inc., which supplies a wide range of IT tools and infrastructure based on open-source software, is one such company. In order to help ...
Fluree launches FlureeDB, a graph database for building custom blockchains
Blockchain startup Fluree PBC today shipped the first production release of its FlureeDB blockchain “graph database” following a successful beta testing period. FlureeDB is at root a graph database, which uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges and properties to represent and store data. However, FlureeDB can also be distributed and decentralized across a ...
Microsoft extends its lead in fast-growing software-as-a-service market
Software as a service keeps growing like a weed, with Microsoft Corp. extending its lead in the key cloud computing market. That’s according to Synergy Research Group latest research published Tuesday. SaaS refers to a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted in the cloud. Some ...
HPE adds container service tricks to its OneSphere hybrid cloud manager
Software containers have emerged as a useful tool to build cloud-native applications that can be built just once and run anywhere, while Kubernetes software has zoomed to prominence as the way to deploy those apps at large scale. But those tools both require very specialized skills to implement, so infrastructure companies believe enterprises will benefit ...
Amazon claims better price performance with its new ‘burstable’ T3 instances
Always looking to stay ahead of its rivals, Amazon Web Services Inc. has updated its “burstable general-purpose instances” for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service in order to provide better performance for next-generation software applications. Amazon’s new T3 instances are the successor to its previous-generation T2 instances. The company describes them as “burstable” because they’re ...
C3 IoT’s industrial ‘internet of things’ platform lands on Google’s cloud
Industrial “internet of things” startup C3 Inc., usually known as C3 IoT, is teaming up with Google LLC to deploy its platform-as-a-service on Google’s public cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2009 by Chairman and Chief Executive Thomas M. Siebel, C3 IoT offers an enterprise platform-as-a-service for artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, big data and other IoT software ...