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Tech earnings preview: Weakness looms amid pandemic, but some companies thrive
What is arguably the most unpredictable earnings season for technology companies in modern history kicks off this week as investors try to navigate the unknowable to figure out which companies will crash, hold the line and even prosper amid the COVID-19 pandemic. IBM leads off today with earnings expected to be announced after the close ...
BioCatch lands $145M to build out its behavioral biometrics security platform
Tel Aviv-based behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch Ltd. said today it has raised $145 million in a Series C investment round, bringing its total funding to more than $186 million. The company, which was founded in 2011, operates a cloud service that collects and analyzes more than 2,000 cognitive parameters, which are a combination of characteristics ...
Alkira emerges from stealth with $30M to make multicloud networking one-click simple
Alkira Inc., a company founded by a team of networking veterans and funded by blue-chip venture capitalists, is emerging from stealth mode today with a networking-as-a-service offering that it says enables cloud architects to build and deploy multicloud networks in minutes. Alkira calls its Cloud Services Exchange “the first unified, on demand, multicloud offering.” The ...
SPECIAL REPORT: CORONAVIRUS AND THE CLOUD
Pandemic sends enterprises racing to the cloud
When the coronavirus hit eastern Canada, it was an all-hands-on-deck moment for the staff at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. Besieged by questions from nervous residents, the information technology staff scrambled to set up a virtual call center in just two days, staffed by employees who were suddenly forced to work from home. IT Systems ...
HPE offers financial relief for businesses rocked by coronavirus
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s financing unit today is making some special accommodations for customers and business partners whose information technology operations are affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The company has earmarked $2 billion to lend to customers for equipment purchases or to buy their IT assets at book value rates. HPE is also instituting a ...
VMware boosts drive to make wide-area network management as simple as public cloud
VMware Inc. is accelerating its drive to lead the growing market for software-defined wide-area networks with the release today of new versions of key components of its Virtual Cloud Network. The announcement moves the computing virtualization provider closer to its stated goal of making network management within the enterprise as easy as it is in ...
Okta says it’s doing away with passwords entirely
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. said today it’s doing away with passwords with a new feature that will be rolled into its cloud platform. Okta FastPass uses the built-in security of connected devices to eliminate the need for users to enter passwords. It’s based on Okta Verify, a lightweight application that was previously used ...
MariaDB now delivering its database as a cloud service
MariaDB Corp. today made the enterprise version of its open-source database management system available as a cloud service. SkySQL is a version of the on-premises product built on top of Kubernetes, the popular orchestration manager for the self-contained software environments known as containers that enable applications to run on multiple kinds of computers. The company ...
Self-service analytics firm Dremio scores $70M in funding
Dremio Corp., a maker of self-service analytics technology based on the Apache Arrow in-memory development platform, today announced it has closed a new $70 million funding round. The Series C round brings total funding to $115 million and gives the company “very clear operating runway under any scenario for two to three years at a ...
Neo4j connector integrates graph data with business intelligence tools
Neo4j Inc. is bringing its graph database technology to the business intelligence sphere with the addition of a connector that presents live graph datasets into popular BI platforms. The platforms include those from Tableau Software Inc., Looker Data Sciences Inc., Tibco Software Inc., Spotfire Inc., Oracle Corp. and MicroStrategy Inc. Graph databases are a type ...