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Cisco opens up DNA Center to manage competitors’ equipment
Cisco Systems Inc. is announcing today that it will open up DNA Center, its centralized network control and management dashboard for the Cisco DNA intent-based networking system. Intent-based networking is an approach to network management that uses machine learning to configure networks automatically to match a set of policies defined by administrators as well as ...
Workday snaps up Adaptive Insights days before planned IPO
Just days before its planned initial public offering, corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has agreed to be bought by Workday Inc., a maker of financial and human resources cloud applications. Workday will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Adaptive Insights for $1.55 billion, including about $150 million in unvested equity issued to Adaptive Insights employees. ...
IBM courts enterprise hybrid cloud business with 18 new availability zones
Continuing its bid to capture a greater share of the market for enterprise hybrid clouds, IBM Corp. today announced the launch of 18 new “availability zones” for its Enterprise Cloud across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Availability zones are isolated regions within existing data centers with independent power, cooling and networking, along with built-in redundancy ...
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Guns or hammers? Big-data firms struggle with their role in responsible data use
Looker Inc.’s business intelligence software can be used to deploy education resources more effectively in inner-city neighborhoods, identify hot spots of violent crime and pinpoint income inequalities in the workforce. It can also be used for racial profiling, political gerrymandering and identifying targets for terrorist attacks. Is it Looker’s job to choose? Chief Executive Frank ...
Cloudera beats the Street, but weak outlook fails to excite wary investors
Cloudera Inc. beat revenue and earnings expectations for its fiscal 2019 first quarter, but failed to raise full-year expectations that it lowered in April, triggering a 40 percent drop in its stock price that day. It wasn’t nearly this bad this time, but investors had clearly hoped the news would be better. In after-hours trading, ...
SAP and IBM marry their cloud services in a partnership aimed at private cloud deployments
IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced plans to launch an edition of the SAP Cloud Platform running on the IBM Cloud for private cloud deployments. The companies said the collaboration will help clients in regulated industries build new applications on the cloud without jeopardizing security and control. The partnership expands on a 46-year relationship ...
Instana extends application monitor to AWS Lambda serverless computing platform
Instana Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence-based monitoring tool for containerized microservice-based applications, has extended its ready to a broad range of Amazon Web Services Inc. products, including the Lambda serverless computing platform. Serverless computing abstracts information technology infrastructure away from applications, enabling developers to focus on function rather than server configurations. Applications are assembled from ...
Dell posts impressive revenue gains as storage business returns to growth
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue rose more than expected in its fiscal first quarter, sparking a 3 percent rise in its stock price in early trading today. Although the shares fell back to rise just a fraction of a point by the end of the trading day, the news was pretty much all positive. The unexpected ...
VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth
VMware Inc.’s strategy shift from being a seller of individual virtualization products to becoming a more pervasive provider of packaged solutions shows no sign of slowing down. The company today reported fiscal first-quarter revenues of $2.01 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year and ahead of the $1.96 billion the company forecast the previous quarter. License revenues grew ...
Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift
Hyperconverged infrastructure maker Maxta Inc. will support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift Container Platform, giving users who want to migrate from VMware Inc. vSphere virtualized environment to Red Hat the ability to do so without disrupting their container environment. Containers are lightweight, self-contained environments that enable applications to be easily moved between different underlying platforms. Maxta said its private cloud infrastructure ...
