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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 ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
As cloud security improves, a weak link emerges: people
Last summer Capital One Financial Corp. was the victim of a massive data breach encompassing more than 100 million credit card applications and revealing 140,000 Social Security numbers. The cause: a misconfigured web application firewall, which is an appliance or software application that protects applications that run on the web. The misconfiguration enabled the attacker, ...
With platform overhaul, Looker seeks to go beyond business intelligence
A pending acquisition by Google LLC isn’t slowing down Looker Data Sciences Inc. The business intelligence company today announced sweeping enhancements to its namesake platform that overhaul the user interface, improve integration with external applications and position it to go beyond visualizations to become an operational decision-making engine. Looker 7 adds a new development framework for use in ...
Red Hat brings machine learning to its process automation suite
Red Hat Inc. Friday updated its Red Hat Process Automation Manager with machine learning-based predictive modeling capabilities and a variety of user interface enhancements. The software suite, which was previously called JBoss Business Process Management Suite, combines BPM with business rules management business resource optimization and complex event processing into a platform for developing applications ...