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VMware earnings top analysts’ expectations
VMware Inc. might be worried about the threat posed to its business by containers, but its financial health is looking better than ever following yet another fine quarterly earnings report. The company has just posted first quarter results exceeding analysts’ expectations, hauling in $1.51 billion in revenues, an 11 percent increase on 2014’s first quarter, ...
Google plans a ‘faster’ Internet with its QUIC protocol
Few readers will remember, but it was almost two years ago that Google announced it was experimenting with a new way to speed up Internet traffic using a protocol it calls QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Now, Google says the results of that experiment are promising, and that it’s successfully boosted web traffic from its ...
BlackBerry’s revival rumbles on with WatchDox acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. has made another bold move as its continues its revival, acquiring Israeli security startup WatchDox in a move that once more illustrates its new, laser-sharp enterprise software focus. The once-beleagured handset maker confirmed the acquisition in a statement earlier today but refused to disclose the terms of the deal. However, Isreali tech sites ...
CenturyLink becomes a NoSQL DaaS player with Orchestrate buyout
Cloud heavyweight wannabee CenturyLink Inc., which is best recognized as a telecommunications vendor, has announced the acquisition of a 10-person startup called Orchestrate, which delivers fully managed, high performance, fault tolerant NoSQL database technologies. While CenturyLink confirmed the deal in a blog post, neither company made any mention of the terms. Nevertheless, a source familiar ...
Linkurious unveils enterprise graph data visualization tool
Data visualizations represent one of the easiest ways to explore business data, revealing all kinds of hidden nuggets that businesses can derive actionable insights from. Now, data visualization outfit Linkurious has come up with a way to help businesses to ‘see’ their graph-based data more easily with the launch of its enterprise platform, Linkurious Enterprise, ...
Looming Windows Server 2003 end of support poses problems for businesses
Even though they had years of warning, millions of businesses were left scrambling last year when Microsoft withdrew support for Windows XP, a massively popular operating system that still runs on almost twenty percent of the world’s PCs. But the problems caused by Windows XP’s end of support date might be nothing compared what happened ...
Google brings Big Data to the masses with Cloud Dataflow beta
Google has finally taken the wraps off its Cloud Dataflow offering, which is designed to allow developers lacking in Hadoop skills to build sophisticated analytic “pipelines” capable of processing extremely large datasets. Cloud Dataflow was first introduced last summer, with Google touting it as a next-generation service for building systems that can ingest, transform, normalize, ...
Pepperdata grabs $15M to help make Hadoop act smarter
A little known company called Pepperdata Inc. that specializes in managing and fine-tuning Hadoop clusters to deliver better performance, has just grabbed $15 million in a series B round to fire up its Big Data platform. New investor Wing Venture Capital led the round, joined by existing investors, including Signia Venture Partners and Yahoo Chairman ...
Ionic Security exits stealth with ‘on-the-fly’ data encryption
Another day and yet another security startup exits from stealth. This time around we’re in for something a bit more novel though, because Ionic Security Inc. is touting an unusual ‘on-the-fly’ encryption system that intercepts user’s keystrokes and saves everything in an encrypted fashion even as they work. Ionic Security works by automatically encrypting all ...
Microsoft teases new features in Exchange Server 2016
Microsoft has lifted the lid on what to expect in its forthcoming preview of Exchange Server 2016, which is set to be outed at its May Ignite Conference. The company says the new release of its on-premises Exchange Server will be ready in the second half of this year, but those who want to take ...