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Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse
In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way service providers are deployed to deliver aid as quickly as possible to stranded ...
Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses
Continuing its quest to make freeform data lakes a viable alternative to highly structured data warehouses, Databricks Inc. today debuted an engine that enables many workloads previously targeted at data warehouses to be executed on data lakes instead. SQL Analytics is said to combine data warehousing performance with data lake economics to enable SQL queries ...
Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate
Data integration firm Talend SA beat Wall Street estimates of its third-quarter earnings thanks to strong growth in its cloud business, indicating that it continues to turn the corner on the migration of its on-premises business to the cloud. The third-quarter loss of $4 million, or 16 cents per share, beat analyst estimates of a loss of ...
Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data
Oracle Corp. today introduced enhancements to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience customer relationship management application focused on improving both virtual selling and buying. Citing a recent Oracle-sponsored Beagle Research Group LLC study that found that traditional CRM systems are seen as more a burden than a resource, the company said the new features are focused on ...
Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail
Some 306 billion email messages traverse the internet each day, but the need for physical mailboxes hasn’t gone away, a fact that was underscored by the U.S. election. The U.S. Postal Service still processes nearly 182 million first-class letters on a typical day. Thanks to technology germinated in the cloud, those printed pieces are getting some ...
Apple tops estimates but won’t forecast upcoming quarter, sending shares down
Fueled by strong growth in iPads and Macs during a broad global shift to employees working from home, Apple Inc. posted record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $64.7 billion and a profit of 73 cents a share, slightly beating Wall Street estimates on both fronts. However, the company’s stock fell more than 5% after hours, probably in response ...
Docker’s developer pivot is hitting the mark, executives say
As Docker Inc. approaches the first anniversary of a business reset following the sale of its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. last November, executives are declaring its new developer focus a success. Now Docker needs to navigate the path to profitability selling to that notoriously cost-sensitive audience. In a briefing with journalists on Tuesday, Docker ...
Cloud helps Microsoft beat earnings forecast, but stock falls on weaker guidance
Microsoft Corp. again demonstrated how tech providers are thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing quarterly results today that easily beat earnings and sales estimates thanks to strong growth for cloud services and personal computer software. However, the company issued slightly weaker-than-expected guidance for the upcoming quarter. That sent its stock down nearly 2% in after-hours ...
Dremio says its query engine eliminates the need for cloud data warehouses
Self-service analytics company Dremio Corp. today announced new technology that it claims can deliver sub-second query response times on cloud data lakes across thousands of concurrent users and queries. The startup is also rolling out new integrations with Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI and Tableau Software Inc.’s Tableau visualization software that enables the tools to be launched ...
Alluxio expands virtual file system to support billions of files
Alluxio Inc., maker of a virtual distributed file system for data science and analytics workloads, Wednesday released a new version that expands its metadata service and enables unified management across hybrid and multiple clouds. Users can now manage namespaces with billion of files without the need for third-party tools, and a new management console makes ...