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IBM CEO says pandemic will be a turning point for digital transformation
In a keynote address that was light on specifics but long on intentions, new IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna today promised to make IBM more responsive to the industries in which its customers operate, easier to work with and dedicated to developing technologies and services for hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. Krishna, who was appointed ...
Orca raises $20M for nonintrusive multicloud security platform
Orca Security Ltd. today said it has secured $20 million in a Series A funding to advance its novel cybersecurity approach. The company claims it can find vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, weak passwords, lateral movement risks, secret keys and sensitive data such as personally identifiable information in cloud environments without the use of software agents. Orca’s technology, ...
Dremio’s AWS-specific data lake query engine comes with a nice price: $0
Dremio Corp., a self-service analytics company whose technology is based on the Apache Arrow columnar processing engine, today is introducing a data lake query engine that’s purpose-built for Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. It also announced two new technologies that it said provide for on-demand service delivery and reduced cloud infrastructure costs. And in a ...
IBM targets IT administrators with Watson-fueled infrastructure manager
Boasting that it already has more than 70,000 attendees preregistered for its Think Digital conference, IBM Corp. today is kicking off the virtual event with a more muted lineup of new product rollouts than usual highlighted by a reinvigorated set of Watson capabilities aimed at data center operations. Despite criticism of Watson for failing to ...
Don’t drink zero-trust Kool-Aid, says maker of secure hardware appliance
Interest in zero-trust security has been rising in a pandemic-stricken world, but Henry Harrison is having none of it. The co-founder of U.K.-based Garrison Technology Ltd. believes cyberattackers will never be fully shut down as long as endpoints such as personal computers and smart devices can be compromised. “The fundamental problem is that if the ...
No malaise at Microsoft: Cloud helps office giant toast earnings target
On the day the Federal Reserve Chairman called economic data for the second quarter “worse than any data we’ve seen for the economy,” Microsoft demonstrated that it’s doing just fine by blowing away consensus estimates, even exceeding pre-coronavirus forecasts. Fiscal third-quarter revenue came in at of $10.75 billion, or $1.40 a share, on sales of ...
Red Hat doubles down on Kubernetes with Summit rollouts
Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its support for Kubernetes, the orchestration manager for software containers, with a trio of new and enhanced products that it’s rolling out today at its virtual Red Hat Summit. OpenShift virtualization, which is available as a technology preview within Red Hat OpenShift, enables organizations to develop, deploy and manage ...
Paul Cormier brings an engineer’s eye to top role at Red Hat
Red Hat Inc. opens the virtual doors of its annual Red Hat Summit this week amid a major leadership shift at both the open-source giant and its parent, IBM Corp. Less than three weeks ago Arvind Krishna took over as chief executive of IBM, becoming the first engineer to hold the position in the company’s 106-year ...
SAP meets revenue target but misses on profit as co-CEO Morgan abruptly departs
SAP SE today met revenue expectations but missed profit estimates in its first quarter and abruptly parted ways with co-Chief Executive Jennifer Morgan after less than six months on the job. The company also lowered revenue guidance for the full year to reflect a slowdown in business resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic but said it ...
IBM beats earnings forecast but withdraws guidance on COVID-19 uncertainty
IBM Corp. reported first-quarter earnings that beat consensus revenue on earnings that were in line with expectations, indicating that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has not hit tech firms’ bottom lines — at least not yet. However, the company also withdrew earlier full-year 2020 guidance because of the crisis and said it will “reassess ...