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Grafana bags $24 million to advance its open-source ‘observability’ suite
Grafana Labs said today it has raised $24 million in new funding to advance its suite of open-source observability software platforms. In addition to the Series A round, the company announced the appointment of three new executives, including a chief operating officer. The New York-based company, whose legal name is Raintank Inc., is the lead developer of ...
ServiceNow shares soar as investors warm to CEO changeover
Shares of ServiceNow Inc. soared in after-hours trading today on revenues and earnings that topped Wall Street estimates, combined with a lovefest conference call to introduce new Chief Executive Bill McDermott to analysts. The information technology services management company reported earnings of $1.03 a share, beating consensus estimates of 99 cents. Revenue jumped 32%, to $899 ...
Former SAP CEO McDermott to take the reins at ServiceNow
Less than two weeks after his surprise announcement that he’s stepping down as chief executive of SAP SE after nine years at the helm, Bill McDermott is already on to his next thing: president and CEO of information technology services management company ServiceNow Inc. In an announcement this afternoon, ServiceNow said McDermott will succeed John Donahoe ...
HPE Aruba adopts single architecture for campuswide switching
The Aruba networking unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is making what it calls its biggest switching announcement in two years, introducing new hardware, software and analytics that are designed for campus-wide deployment in far-flung networks. The Aruba CX 6300 Series fixed-configuration and CX 6400 Series modular access, aggregation and core switches feature custom ...
New Microsoft deal boosts SAP earnings, but new executive team faces challenges
SAP SE stole its own thunder by pre-releasing its earnings results 11 days ago, so this morning’s conference call with executives was more of a get-to-know-you for new co-Chief Executive Officers Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein than a news event. Still, the announcement of a 39% increase in cloud bookings and 37% growth in cloud revenue, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION
Hot bots: The payoffs and pitfalls of robotic process automation
Irish health insurer Laya Healthcare Ltd. needs to clean up thousands of accounts each month that carry balances that are too small to bother collecting. “A customer may have a balance of $150.12 and pay $150 because they can’t remember the correct amount,” said Information Technology Director Ian Brennan. “We’re not going to chase them ...
Boomi bulks up API management and adds streaming support to its integration and governance platform
Boomi Inc., the Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary that focuses on data integration and governance, is kicking off day two of its Boomi World event in Washington, D.C. today with a raft of product enhancements. They include expanded functions for its application programming interface or API management and event-driven architecture or EDA features that expand developer options for ...
Invoca applies machine learning to transcribing and classifying voice calls
Invoca Inc. today extended its call tracking and analytics platform with capabilities that apply keyword analytics to transcribed conversations and automatically categorize them for marketing purposes. The new Signal Discovery feature uses unsupervised machine learning to scour large volumes of recorded calls and automatically group them based upon words and speech patterns. Unsupervised machine learning discovers ...
TigerGraph’s cloud-native engine debuts as it raises $32M in new funding
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. today announced the general availability of a cloud-native version of its product that it announced nearly a year ago, adding a free trial option and a range of starter kits aimed at making graph technology accessible to a broader audience. The company also announced $32 million in a Series B ...
Cloudera debuts all-open-source integrated cloud data platform
Two months after adopting an all-open-source strategy, Cloudera Inc. today is announcing an integrated data platform made up entirely of open-source elements. Cloudera Data Platform is being positioned as one-stop-shopping cloud service for organizations that want to perform analytics across hybrid and multicloud environments with enterprise-grade security and governance. The package combines a cloud-native data ...