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Ahead of joining VMware, Pivotal reports strong earnings growth
Pivotal Software Inc. is going out on a high note. In what may be its last earnings report as a public company, the maker of the Cloud Foundry cloud development platform reported a narrower quarterly loss on 17% revenue growth driven by a 38% rise in subscription revenue. Pivotal agreed to be acquired by sibling ...
ANALYSIS
HPE earnings rise, but revenue slide continues for third straight quarter
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s stock rose as much as 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after it reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and raised its full-year forecast. However, investors might be getting ahead of themselves, as revenue fell 7% and the company offered little optimism that growth would resume anytime soon. Adjusted earnings ...
SPECIAL REPORT: COPING WITH MULTICLOUD
At VMworld, VMware announces a hybrid cloud product blitz for partners
VMware Inc. will kick off its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco today with a slew of announcements aimed at positioning itself as the company everyone wants to partner with for hybrid cloud management. In addition to new versions of its operations and automation suites for hybrid cloud, the company will deepen its integration with server ...
SPECIAL REPORT: COPING WITH MULTICLOUD
For better or worse, multiple clouds are here to stay
In information technology circles, it’s called “one throat to choke.” It’s a metaphor for chief information officers’ preference for concentrating most of their business with a single strategic supplier in each category of application and infrastructure. The approach has a lot of appeal to risk-averse IT organizations, including fewer points of failure, better customer service, ...
Remediant lands $15M to take privileged access management security mainstream
Remediant Inc., developer of a new breed of access control software called privileged access management, today announced that it has raised $15 million in a new funding round. The Series A investment led by Dell Technologies Capital and Forgepoint Capital Management LLC will go toward marketing and field operations, product engineering and channel development. Founded four ...
IronNet offers threat-sharing service free to small firms
IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. a five-year-old security intelligence company founded by a group of former national security officials and Beltway insiders, is making its principal collaboration platform available free to qualifying organizations. The company charges some enterprise customers a significant though undisclosed sum annually for the service, which is called IronDome. It enables participating organizations to anticipate ...
ANALYSIS
The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. said today it will acquire the assets of MapR Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum, ending a two-month drama that cast a harsh light on the struggles of once high-flying big-data companies. HPE said the deal, which was announced this morning, includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property and expertise in artificial intelligence and ...
IBM moves quickly to shift software base to Red Hat OpenShift
IBM Corp. is losing no time in its efforts to demonstrate results from its acquisition of Red Hat Inc., which closed just three weeks ago. The company today is announcing that it will make much of its software portfolio available in cloud-native form on OpenShift, which is Red Hat’s version of the Kubernetes container orchestration ...
FEATURE
Why hardware still matters in the era of cloud computing
The University of California at San Diego has adopted a cloud-first strategy that involves retiring three mainframes, shifting as many computing workloads as possible to the cloud and abandoning on-premises software in favor of software-as-a-service wherever possible. “I long ago realized that the CIO should be more of a supply chain leader than someone who ...
Replicant raises $7 million for conversational AI system for contact centers
Artificial intelligence startup Replicant Inc. today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding for its customer relationship-focused voice response technology and appointed a former executive from contact center unicorn Talkdesk Inc. as chief executive. The San Francisco-based company said its automated assistant can carry on complex and detailed conversations with customers with response times ...