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MapR targets big-data rivals’ merger with free migration assessment
MapR Technologies Inc. is betting that the impending merger of big-data rivals Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. will mire those companies in so much organizational minutia that customers will be open to making a switch. MapR is the sole surviving independent member of the trio of well-funded startups that emerged from the early days of ...
Kubernetes Special Report
Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud
Bloomberg L.P. may be best known for its news service and ubiquitous stock trader terminals, but more than a quarter of its 19,000 employees are software engineers and technologists who turn out thousands of custom applications each year to help Bloomberg customers understand and forecast the machinations of financial markets. Bloomberg runs more than 14,000 ...
Graph databases get a boost as market leader Neo4j raises $80M
Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. said today it has raised an $80 million late-stage funding round, doubling the company’s total venture capital investment to $160 million and making it the best-funded startup in its market. The company said it will use the funds to hike investment in its flagship platform to “support popular use cases, including ...
Nutanix takes its multicloud manager to the on-premises data center
In a nod to the popularity of hybrid cloud architectures, Nutanix Inc. is taking its Beam multicloud governance and management software into the data center. The San Jose, California-based company today announced that the service it debuted in May for Nutanix cloud instances will now be able to peer into customers’ on-premises Nutanix environments as well. ...
Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine
Dremio Corp. is adding a data catalog to its self-service data analytics platform in a major release announced today. The company is also incorporating new controls for multitenant deployments, boosting end-to-end data encryption, offering options to run inside software containers and adopting Gandiva, an open-source performance-enhancing library for the Apache Arrow distributed query engine upon which the ...
Microsoft shrugs off market swoon thanks to success of its hybrid cloud strategy
Updated: Microsoft Corp. capped off a no-good awful day on Wall Street with a happy ending, reporting earnings that handily beat analyst estimates. On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 600 points and the Nasdaq skidded nearly 4.5 percent, Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $29.1 billion, up 19 percent ...
INTERVIEW
An elevator maker reveals the ups and downs of digital transformation
A list of the 10 large companies that have most successfully transformed their businesses through technology published in the Harvard Business Review last year included many of the usual suspects – and one that many people probably wouldn’t even recognize. Thyssenkrupp AG, a German materials giant that can trace its roots back more than 200 ...
SAP cloud sales surge, but profit squeeze knocks back shares
Strong growth in cloud sales led SAP SE to raise its full-year revenue and profit projections for the third time this year, but third-quarter profits missed analyst estimates, prompting a selloff in its shares today. SAP stock dropped nearly 7 percent in trading today, to its lowest level since May. A defiant Chief Executive Bill McDermott ...
IBM surprises investors with quarterly revenue decline
Wall Street threw a party today, but IBM Corp. ended up with the hangover. On a day when the Dow Jones soared more than 500 points, IBM shares fell more than 4 percent in immediate after-hours trading on fiscal second-quarter earnings results that missed in nearly every category. Update: In Wednesday trading, shares were falling ...
With fall release, Talend jumps into data cataloging and API development
Data integration company Talend SA is expanding its scope into data cataloging and application program interface development with the fall update to its Talend Data Fabric integration platform announced today. Both markets are growing quickly as organizations seek to get a better handle on the data they already have and expose it through APIs. The ...