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In first post-IPO report, ForeScout sees stock surge on strong earnings
Updated “Internet of things” security company ForeScout Technologies Inc. saw its share price jump in after-hours trading after posting third-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s forecast. In its first earnings report since launching its initial public offering in October, ForeScout reported a net loss of $7.2 million, or $1.17 a share, on revenue of $64.4 ...
Heptio brings its disaster recovery tool Ark to Microsoft’s Azure Container Service
Software container-focused startup Heptio Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. on an open-source technology that provides disaster recovery capabilities for Kubernetes deployments. The company, which was founded by two creators of the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool with the aim of commercializing that project, said it’s collaborating with Microsoft to ensure its Heptio Ark ...
With new automation features, Juniper moves closer to its vision of self-driving networks
Hoping to automate corporate network management, Juniper Networks Inc. today announced three new “Juniper Bots,” software applications designed to automate configuration changes across networks. The new bots are said to be an essential component of Juniper’s “Self-Driving Network” initiative, which envisions the creation of fully autonomous networks that can self-configure, monitor, manage, correct, defend and ...
OpenAI launches software to speed up GPU-powered neural networks
The artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI says it has developed software to build faster and more efficient neural networks that take up less memory on the graphics processing units that power them. OpenAI is a nonprofit research firm founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that wants to promote and develop friendly AI ...
Identity software firm Okta’s shares jump almost 5% on solid earnings
Enterprise software firm Okta Inc. delivered solid third-quarter earnings Wednesday, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus. Okta, which makes identity management software that allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each of them, said it pulled in revenue of $68.2 million, up 61 percent from the same period last year. ...
Cloud computing will drive $554B in revenue by 2021
Up until now, most cloud revenue forecasts have focused on specific segments of cloud computing, but that changed today when International Data Corp. released its first report on the “whole cloud.” The new forecast encompasses just about every possible cloud service one might think of, including public, private and hybrid clouds, plus the software and ...
Google applies machine learning to make its Sheets spreadsheet software smarter
Google LLC is building on the machine learning technology that was integrated into its spreadsheet software last year. The company said today that it’s enhancing the “Explore” feature in Sheets with new capabilities including formula suggestions and pivot tables powered by machine learning that are designed to deliver faster and more useful insights. Sheets is part of ...
Alcide emerges with $5.2M seed funding to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments
Hoping to address some of the security problems inherent in what it calls the “modern data center,” a startup called Alcide is emerging from stealth mode with a new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments. The company today also announced a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Intel Capital and ...
Microsoft launches preview of ‘low code’ service for building ‘internet of things’ systems
Microsoft Corp. today announced the public preview of a new service that’s designed to help enterprises easily build large-scale “internet of things” systems. The software giant said Microsoft IoT Central, which is powered by its Azure cloud, is a software-as-a-service offering that’s meant to connect physical internet of things devices to “back-end services” such as asset ...
VMware updates NSX-T network software to support software container development
VMware Inc. took to the stage at Pivotal Software Inc.’s SpringOne Platform conference in San Francisco today to announce an updated version of its NSX virtual networking software. The virtualization giant offers two different versions of its software-defined networking software. NSX is the better known and more widely used of the two. It integrates with ...