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Red Hat posts solid Q2 earnings, subscription revenue grows
Open-source powerhouse Red Hat Inc. delivered another encouraging set of numbers in its second quarter of fiscal 2017 earnings call, edging past market estimates. The Linux vendor reported income before certain costs such as stock compensation of 55 cents a share, with total revenues of $599.8 million, a 19 percent increase year-over-year. Wall Street analysts were ...
Data Artisans launches dA Platform based on Apache Flink
The Apache Flink Top-Level project has steadily been gaining traction over the last 18 months as an alternative to the more widely used Apache Spark. Now, data Artisans GmbH is ready to capitalize on Flink’s growing reputation with the release of version one of its dA Platform, the first fully supported commercial distribution of the ...
Two new Apache software releases, CouchDB and Kudu, hit the wire
It was a busy day at the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) offices yesterday, with not one, but two major software releases hitting the wire. The foundation announced the availability of Apache CouchDB v2.0, the popular NoSQL database, alongside the initial release of the Apache Kudu columnar storage engine that’s built to run alongside Apache Hadoop. ...
Industrial Internet vendors set out security framework
A consortium of Industrial Internet vendors has agreed upon a security framework for the fledgling industry that aims to strike a balance between the safety and reliability needs of industrial operations. Key to the framework is an attempt to define the “trustworthiness” of emerging manufacturing networks. The two-year old Industrial Internet Consortium, whose most prestigious ...
IBM touts new systems and services for hybrid cloud management
IBM has introduced a new line of cloud systems and services that aim to simplify the movement of data across hybrid environments. The headline act is a new IBM Power Systems for Cloud that’s integrated with OpenStack-based cloud management and elastic consumption models. The idea here is that this new server line and architecture makes ...
Dell-EMC poised to dominate storage systems market amid flash price crash
Enterprise storage spending remained flat in the second quarter, but thanks to a steep decline in the price of flash, buyers are getting a lot more bang for their buck. At least that’s what analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC) reckons, according to its latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker for the second quarter ...
VMware updates vSphere to simplify vCenter Server migration
VMware Inc. has introduced a “vCenter Server for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance” migration tool in its latest update to vSphere. The focus of vSphere 6.0 Update 2m is on making it easier to migrate from one vCenter Server to another, something that’s traditionally always been a very complicated undertaking, as Emad Younis, senior technical ...
Red Hat’s new installer lets you spin up a private cloud in just 4 hours
Red Hat Inc. wants to help organizations deploy private clouds faster, and to that end has just unveiled a new tool called the QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) that should make it possible. The new installer comes just one week after the company rolled out Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9, based on the OpenStack Mitaka release. ...
Salesforce’s Einstein deep learning platform aims to bring AI to the masses
Salesforce.com Inc.’s plans to enhance its sales and marketing software with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities were first leaked by company CEO Marc Benioff several weeks ago. But yesterday’s unveiling of Salesforce Einstein still caught everyone by surprise, stealing the show from rival firm Oracle Corp. just hours before its annual Oracle OpenWorld tech conference kicked off with ...
Report: Enterprises too complacent about growing cyber-attacks
Cyber-attacks are increasing in frequency and severity with each year that passes, but a large number of enterprises large and small appear to be assuming that “it won’t happen to us.” In a report published by Juniper Research this week, 86 percent of the more than 200 U.K.-based enterprises quizzed said they believe they’re doing ...