Paul Gillin
Latest from Paul Gillin
HPE ups its hybrid cloud game with intelligent management and high-end storage array
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is kicking off its annual Discover conference this week with a host of announcements aimed at moving its hybrid cloud initiative ahead and folding artificial intelligence into its infrastructure management offerings. Updates include the extension of current machine-learning-driven operations and composable infrastructure options across its portfolio, new workload-optimized infrastructure, a new ...
NetApp ports cloud tools to its hyperconverged platform to ease hybrid deployments
Continuing its diversification strategy beyond its storage legacy, NetApp Inc. today announced the availability of its NetApp Cloud Data Services on the hyperconverged appliance it introduced two years ago. The company said it’s also expanding the capabilities of its cloud management platform to enable customers to stretch persistent storage across public clouds and better control the ...
MapR extends deadline to raise money for continued operations
MapR Technologies Inc. has extended its deadline to July 3 to secure new funding or find a buyer. The company had previously said it would “cease operations and close the Santa Clara headquarters” by June 14 if it couldn’t raise funds. In a statement today, MapR said it “continues to work diligently on a strategic ...
Raising $11M, Edgewise boils complex network segmentation down to a single click
Edgewise Networks Inc. said today it has raised $11 million in venture funding and also launched a new platform that it claims can radically shorten the time needed to create and manage “zero-trust” security environments using an increasingly popular network security technique called microsegmentation. The Massachusetts company, which emerged from stealth mode nearly two years ago, said ...
BREAKING NEWS ANALYSIS
Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B as analytics market consolidation accelerates
Customer relationship management giant Salesforce.com Inc. early today said it’s buying Tableau Inc. in a blockbuster all-stock deal valued at $15.7 billion. The news comes just four days after Google LLC announced plans to acquire Tableau rival Looker Data Sciences Inc. for $2.6 billion. The deals signal a new front in intensifying competition among various ...
BREAKING NEWS ANALYSIS
Google’s Looker purchase opens new front in cloud computing wars
Google LLC is making its largest acquisition in the public cloud market with the intended purchase of business intelligence firm Looker Data Sciences Inc. for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction announced this morning. The deal has the potential to help jumpstart Google’s efforts to compete better with much bigger public cloud leaders Amazon Web Services ...
AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration
AtScale Inc., developer of a business intelligence abstraction platform that reduces or eliminates the the need for data extract/transform/load procedures, Wednesday updated its core software. The update includes the addition of native multidimensional support for Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI, improved integration with Teradata Corp. and PostgreSQL data warehouses, a software development kit for data platform ...
Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates
Salesforce.com Inc. calmed investor concerns about slowing growth with solid fiscal first-quarter financial performance that eclipsed Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company slightly lowered second-quarter earnings estimates but raised its full-year outlook to earnings of between $2.88 and $2.90 on revenue of between $16.1 billion and $16.25 billion for the year. ...
VMware CTO sees one unified platform anchoring customers’ multicloud plans
A lot of VMware Inc.’s customers view it as what it was in the past: a company that “virtualizes” hardware to make data centers more flexible and efficient. Kit Colbert, chief technology officer of VMware’s cloud platform business unit, is here to tell them the company isn’t living in the past. “It’s important to understand ...
VMware posts strong results, but investors wanted more
Updated: VMware Inc. beat Wall Street estimates on both revenues and earnings in the first quarter, but the results weren’t quite the blowout investors have come to expect recently — and they responded with a light knuckle-wrap, sending shares down more than 3% in after-hours trading. There was little to suggest that anything is amiss ...