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For 2020, the crystal ball remains positively cloudy
Each year around this time we’re inundated with predictions from tech executives. Most are rather predictable, but there are always a few that stand out for going against the grain. So for this year’s cloud predictions, I thought I’d share some of the more interesting examples — along with a few cherry-picked from around the ...
ProdPerfect raises $13M to automate creation of software test suites
ProdPerfect Inc. said Tuesday it has raised $13 million in new funding to build its automated software testing business. The company, which was founded in 2017, had previously raised $2.7 million in a seed round. ProdPerfect uses machine learning to monitor user interactions with an application and create test suites automatically. Its software then continually evolves the ...
Investors shake off Adobe’s slightly lowered forecasts as profit and revenue beat estimates
Adobe Inc. posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results today that slightly exceeded analyst expectations, helping send its stock up more than 2.5% in early after-hours trading. The maker of software for creative media professionals and marketers reported a 21% jump in quarterly revenue, to $2.99 billion, slightly beating consensus estimates of $2.97 billion. Earnings of $2.29 per share ...
Interview: With Pitney Bowes software purchase, Syncsort aims to become a force in data integration
With its $700 million acquisition of Pitney Bowes Inc.’s software and data business now final, Syncsort Inc. is looking to carve out a leadership position in data quality and integration, anchored by the acquired business’ strength in location data. The shift is the latest step in a six-year-long overhaul of Syncsort’s business that has transformed ...
MongoDB shares soar on strong revenue growth and narrower loss
Shares of MongoDB Inc. rocketed more than 11% in after-hours trading after the provider of the leading NoSQL database for document management beat Wall Street revenue and profit projections for the third quarter. The company also raised its guidance for the next fiscal year, providing investors confidence at an uncertain time for the economy. The ...
Okta’s roll continues as it bests earnings forecast and raises 2020 guidance
Okta Inc. scored a Wall Street hat trick in its third fiscal quarter today, beating analyst expectations on revenue, earnings and raising guidance for the fourth quarter. The identity management firm reported a loss of seven cents per share, beating consensus estimates of a 12-cent loss. Revenues rose 45% from the same quarter a year ...
HPE nudges GreenLake closer to unified cloud management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is adding user profiles, self-provisioning and monitoring to its GreenLake composable infrastructure platform, bringing the on-premises offering closer in function to a public cloud. The new HPE GreenLake Central option announced today enables user self-service through a unified front-end along from which users can manage and provision both their local infrastructure ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
AWS impresses with its latest line of custom-made cloud processors
For a company that started out selling books, Amazon.com Inc. is demonstrating that it knows a thing or two about microprocessors as well. The e-commerce giant’s cloud computing arm today rolled out the next generation of the microprocessors that will power some of its mainstream Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 instances. Announced at Amazon Web Services ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Surf’s up! The next wave of cloud migration is about to hit
Founded nearly a century ago, defense contractor Raytheon Co. wrestles with the same kind of legacy infrastructure burden as any longstanding company, but that hasn’t stopped it from embracing the cloud. For a recent project, the company adopted the U.S. Air Force’s new Kessel Run agile software development methodology, which relies heavily upon the use ...
HPE targets cloud migration for legacy apps with Kubernetes-based platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is combining technology from two recent acquisitions into a container platform that it says can run both cloud-native and non-cloud-native applications. The HPE Container Platform, which is being introduced today at the KubeCon 2019 conference in San Diego, leverages distributed processing technology the company picked up with last year’s acquisition of ...