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TigerGraph simplifies graph queries and relational migration, offers free access to coronavirus researchers
Graph database provider TigerGraph Inc. today is announcing version 3.0 of its namesake engine, saying it incorporates significant ease-of-use enhancements. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that represent data as connected objects rather than rows and columns. Connections can be traversed quickly to find relationships that would be difficult or impossible to identify ...
Oracle earnings report pleases investors as cloud subscriptions drive growth
Oracle Corp. turned in its best quarterly growth performance in nearly two years with fiscal third-quarter revenues and profits that both eclipsed analysts’ estimates. Revenue rose nearly 2%, to more than $9.79 billion, from a year ago. Profits fell slightly, to $2.57 billion, or 79 cents per share, but adjusted earnings of 97 cents per share ...
Alluxio adds cataloging and data transformation to its data orchestration platform
Alluxio Inc., developer of open-source cloud-based software that orchestrates and harmonizes data from multiple sources into a common format, today announced new features that simplify the task of transforming and storing data. The new features also make the data available more quickly to data scientists for analytics and machine learning applications. The company’s software is ...
VMware embraces Kubernetes in its biggest product blitz in a decade
Hailing it as its most significant update to its vSphere virtualization manager in a decade, VMware Inc. today is overhauling its portfolio of products to include native support of the Kubernetes orchestration manager for software containers along with a host of new tools for shifting and managing applications across multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructure stacks. ...
HPE revenue decline disappoints as server and storage sales sink
Analysts were expecting Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to report its fifth straight quarter of declining sales today, but they weren’t prepared for the extent of the decline. HPE shares fell nearly 5% in early after-hours trading after the computer systems provider reported a nearly 9% drop in revenues in its fiscal first quarter, to $6.95 ...
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Dell narrowly beats revenue forecast, but enterprise business continues to struggle
Dell Technologies Inc. today beat earnings estimates for the fiscal 2020 fourth fiscal quarter on strong growth in its services business, a tailwind from an ongoing refresh cycle of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 and 11% growth in sales at its VMware Inc. subsidiary, but none of that was enough to please investors already gun-shy from ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT: RETHINKING TRUST
‘Trust nothing’: As breaches mount, a radical approach to cybersecurity gains favor
Four years ago, Lexmark International Inc. was hit with a stubborn computer virus that tied up some members of its cybersecurity team for months. The Kwampirs malware had “run rampant,” said Bryan Willett, Lexmark’s chief information security officer. “We struggled with getting visibility into it, controlling it and getting patches in place” across a network ...
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NetApp takes a hit as cloud growth fails to offset on-premises equipment sales drop
NetApp Inc. missed analysts’ forecasts for its fiscal third-quarter revenue and profit, sending its stock plunging more than 11% in after-hours trading. Growth of 146% in the company’s still-tiny cloud data services business failed to offset ongoing declines in its hardware business, leading to a 10% drop in overall quarterly revenue. The shrinking business for NetApp, which ...
The newest cybersecurity firm to IPO has no product, customers or sales – yet
A technology company went public late last month with no customers, no product, no venture capital investment or not even a clear idea of what business it’s in. SCVX Corp., which went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 24, actually isn’t a tech company but a Special Purpose Acquisition Company that sells stock to ...
Uncle! SAP extends controversial migration deadline for legacy customers
Facing mounting pressure from customers who fear they won’t make a 2025 deadline to abandon their legacy enterprise resource planning installations, SAP SE this morning said it would extend maintenance for core applications of the SAP Business Suite 7 software. The extension to the software, also called SAP ERP Central Component, will run to the end ...
