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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
Hell-bent on pushing their so-called “digital transformation” agendas, enterprises will spend almost $2 trillion a year by 2022 in order to get there, according to a new analysis from International Data Corp. The research firm said enterprises will spend a combined $1.97 …
SurveyMonkey’s shares jump on its first earnings report since IPO
Survey software company SurveyMonkey Inc. cheered investors Tuesday with a smaller-than-expected loss in its first quarterly earnings report since going public. Revenue also came in above estimates, helping the company’s stock jump in after-hours trading. The San Mateo, California-based company reported an adjusted …