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ManageEngine gives browsers PC-level security
The functionality of today’s browsers rivals that of personal computers of just a few years ago, so ManageEngine, the systems management arm of Zoho Corp., is giving them a comparable level of security. The company today is launching Browser Security Plus, a security tool that lets administrators configure and manage browsers to protect against malicious plug-ins, ...
As robotic process automation market turns white-hot, UiPath bags $225M at $3B valuation
The red-hot robotic process automation market hit another milestone today as six-year-old startup UiPath Inc. said it has closed a late-stage funding round of $225 million, giving the company a valuation of $3 billion. The Series C round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture arm and included new investor Sequoia Capital Operations LLC as ...
Oracle’s revenue falls short as cloud strategy remains stuck in low gear
In recent analyst calls, Oracle Corp. executives have spoken with confidence about the company’s plans to overtake Amazon Web Services Inc. in the cloud infrastructure market. That kind of braggadocio was notably absent in today’s briefing call following the release of fiscal first-quarter earnings results. A $50 million revenue miss led by a shortfall in cloud ...
The state of GDPR compliance is just dreadful, survey finds
In news that will probably surprise no one, a survey has found that few companies are complying with the requirements of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect more than three months ago. The research, which was conducted by data integration company Talend SA, found that while 98 percent of ...
MapR packages services to help customers move up the AI learning curve
MapR Technologies Inc. today announced six new data science service packages aimed at helping customers get started with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The customized offerings apply MapR data scientists to specific customer problems and projects to demonstrate the use of advanced analytics. The AI/ML Hack-a-thon has a MapR data science team working with an organization ...
Hortonworks launches initiative to define unified hybrid cloud platform for big data
Saying the boundaries between cloud and on-premises computing have blurred to the point that distinctions are no longer meaningful, Hortonworks Inc. today is launching an initiative to define a single hybrid architecture for multicloud environments. The company will initially be joined in what it calls the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative by IBM Corp. and Red ...
Shares of cloud identity firm Okta soar as revenue blows away estimates
Updated: Shares of cloud identity management provider Okta Inc. soared in after-hours trading as the company vaporized analyst revenue estimates and soundly beat earnings expectations. Second-quarter revenue jumped 57 percent from a year ago, to $94.6 million. That was more than 10 percent better than analysts’ consensus estimate of $87.4 million. The quarterly loss of 15 ...
Dell earnings surge as company shakes off storage woes
Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. this morning reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its second quarter and raised forecasts for the full fiscal year, calming concerns that the integration of EMC Corp. was distracting the company from its core businesses. Double-digit revenue percentage growth across all of its key business segments and triple-digit growth in ...
Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls
Updated: Workday Inc. today continued a dubious string of quarters in which it beat Wall Street analysts estimates only to see its shares fall. The maker of cloud-based human capital management and enterprise financial software reported fiscal second-quarter revenues of $671.1 million, up nearly 28 percent from a year ago, with 30 percent growth in subscription revenue, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud
Urs Hölzle knows a thing or two about the rapid evolution of data centers and the infrastructure behind them. As a Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, he has helped define that evolution over the past couple of decades as the search and ad giant built its own industry-leading global infrastructure. Now, ...
