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KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
Kubernetes’ sprawling ecosystem offers lots of choice – and risk
If your organization is ready to go all in on the Kubernetes orchestration manager and you’re looking for a way to package applications for easy deployment, you’ll probably gravitate to Helm, an open-source project incubating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But you may also want to check out Docker Compose from the company that ...
Dell to go public again as tracking-stock shareholders approve revised offer
Shareholders in Dell Technologies Inc.’s tracking stock cleared the way for the parent company to go public again this morning as they approved a revised offer that gives them control of Dell’s VMware Inc. subsidiary and pays a rich reward to founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Under the terms of the deal, Dell Technologies is ...
Looker raises $103 million to break out of crowded business intelligence field
Looker Data Sciences Inc. today said it has closed a late-stage financing round of $103 million, bringing its total funding to $280.5 million. This latest round should take the company through to break-even cash flow, an event that Chief Executive Frank Bien (pictured) said is likely within the next two years. The Series E investment round ...
Cloudera previews Kubernetes-specific machine learning platform
Cloudera Inc. today announced a preview of a new cloud-native machine learning platform that runs on Kubernetes, the popular orchestration platform for software containers. Containers are portable, self-contained software environments that include code and all dependencies to able applications to run reliably in multiple computing environments. The company said the new Cloudera Machine Learning platform will ...
HPE revenues grow again as a shift from ‘volume to value’ pays off
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter, but blamed onetime tax charges and said actual profits rose by more than 50 percent from a year ago. The company also reported revenues and adjusted earnings per share that beat analyst expectations and maintained its full-year guidance for both the first quarter ...
‘Critical’ Kubernetes flaw enables attackers to gain administrative control
A recently discovered flaw in the Kubernetes orchestration manager can enable any authorized user to gain administrative privileges that could be used to steal data or bring down production applications. The same vulnerability can also be exploited by unauthorized users to inject malicious code. The flaw, which affects versions of Kubernetes higher than 1.10 and ...
A confident VMware beats earnings estimates and raises 2019 forecast
Updated: VMware Inc.’s transition away from a seller of commodity data center infrastructure to a well-rounded solution provider continues apace judging by another strong earnings report today. Third-quarter earnings of $1.56 per share came in a nickel better than consensus estimates and up 26 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Revenues rose 13.5 percent, ...
OpenLegacy raises $30M for technology to refresh legacy applications with microservices
The investment environment for all things related to application program interfaces remains hot. OpenLegacy Inc., a maker of microservices-based API integration tools that are primarily intended for use with legacy enterprise applications, Wednesday said it has closed a funding round of $30 million. The Jerusalem-based startup helps organizations give new life to older applications by ...
Salesforce.com silences doubters with another blowout quarter
Offering evidence that worries about slowing growth that emerged following its previous quarterly earnings report were just that — worries — Salesforce.com Inc. ripped off another strong quarter today and raised its revenue forecast for fiscal 2020 to $16 billion. Fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings for the customer relationship management software maker of 61 cents a share ...
AWS, Accenture expand partnership with business-focused cloud services
Accenture Plc and Amazon Web Services Inc. are deepening their business partnership with an expanded menu of services announced today at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The services, which range from cloud migration to blockchain deployment, are provided by Accenture’s AWS Business Group. That practice, launched three years ago, now employs 2,100 certified AWS ...