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Teradata stock price tumbles on poor Q1 earnings
Teradata Corp’s stock price took a tumble after it reported disappointing first quarter earnings numbers yesterday. The Big Data analytics firm saw its first quarter revenues slip by seven percent to $582 million, compared to $628 million in the previous year. Also, net income for the quarter fell to $22 million, compared to $59 million ...
Uber bids $3B to take HERE Maps off Nokia’s hands
Alternative transportation outfit Uber Inc. has yet to make any major acquisitions, but that could be about to change, with rumors emerging that its entered the race to snap up Nokia’s mapping product HERE, according to The New York Times. That Nokia is looking to get rid of HERE is no secret. The company said ...
SAP takes a shot at the Internet of Things with its Hana Cloud Platform
SAP SE might be struggling to get its cloud business up and running, but that hasn’t deterred it from pushing onwards and upwards. And so what’s next? The Internet of Things (IoT). The company unveiled its HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) for the IoT at Sapphire Now 2015 yesterday, before saying it plans to deepen its ...
SAP launches a one-click app store for the enterprise
When it comes to downloading new apps the process for consumers is so easy they barely even think about it. Simply click on ‘download’, wait and while and, voilà! There it is, ready to be played with. If only it were that easy in the enterprise, where buying software is often a laborious process involving ...
Google unveils its Bigtable NoSQL database “as-a-service”
You might not have heard of Google’s Bigtable database, but you’re almost certainly a regular user. That’s because it’s the database that powers the majority of Google’s products, including search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and more. It’s a huge and extremely powerful database capable of handling all kinds of data. And now Google is putting it in ...
Birst reshapes Big Data for the user with new release
Big Data is rapidly transforming the way businesses operate, but there are numerous ways in which data analysis can be presented and used. The results of data analysis – a mishmash of graphs, visualizations and confusing dashboards – can often be overwhelming and confusing, which is why there’s such an advantage to be had in ...
Cloudera valued at $4.7 billion but won’t turn a profit soon, analysts say
Hadoop is getting hotter, and that can only be good news for Cloudera Inc. as it looks to cash in on one of enterprise software’s biggest trends. Rival companies like Hortonworks Inc. and IBM might have thrown a spanner in the works when they established the ever-so-slightly controversial Open Data Platform, but Cloudera is still ...
Microsoft hints at Windows-as-a-Service strategy for future revenues
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model has expanded rapidly in the past few years, with many companies preferring it over the traditional licensing model. But Microsoft, the biggest software company of them all, has been somewhat slower to embrace the concept, and is only beginning to do so now that its traditional cash cows are feeling the ...
USBKill transforms your thumb drive into a kill switch
Cybercriminals who spend their lives looking over their shoulders, terrified of being caught red-handed by law enforcement with a laptop full of incriminating information can breathe a little easier, thanks to an empty USB drive and some simple code. That’s because a coder who goes by the name “Hephaestos” has just released a Python script ...
Microsoft brings Azure to your data center with Azure Stack
Microsoft is boxing up a number of its cloud-based operating system components into a new Azure Stack offering that’s designed to be run in customers on-premise data centers. The new service extends Microsoft Azure’s application development and deployment model to any data center, be it a private enterprise or a web hosting company. The Azure ...