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The state of GDPR compliance is just dreadful, survey finds
In news that will probably surprise no one, a survey has found that few companies are complying with the requirements of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect more than three months ago. The research, which was conducted by data integration company Talend SA, found that while 98 percent of ...
MapR packages services to help customers move up the AI learning curve
MapR Technologies Inc. today announced six new data science service packages aimed at helping customers get started with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The customized offerings apply MapR data scientists to specific customer problems and projects to demonstrate the use of advanced analytics. The AI/ML Hack-a-thon has a MapR data science team working with an organization ...
Hortonworks launches initiative to define unified hybrid cloud platform for big data
Saying the boundaries between cloud and on-premises computing have blurred to the point that distinctions are no longer meaningful, Hortonworks Inc. today is launching an initiative to define a single hybrid architecture for multicloud environments. The company will initially be joined in what it calls the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative by IBM Corp. and Red ...
Shares of cloud identity firm Okta soar as revenue blows away estimates
Updated: Shares of cloud identity management provider Okta Inc. soared in after-hours trading as the company vaporized analyst revenue estimates and soundly beat earnings expectations. Second-quarter revenue jumped 57 percent from a year ago, to $94.6 million. That was more than 10 percent better than analysts’ consensus estimate of $87.4 million. The quarterly loss of 15 ...
Dell earnings surge as company shakes off storage woes
Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. this morning reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its second quarter and raised forecasts for the full fiscal year, calming concerns that the integration of EMC Corp. was distracting the company from its core businesses. Double-digit revenue percentage growth across all of its key business segments and triple-digit growth in ...
Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls
Updated: Workday Inc. today continued a dubious string of quarters in which it beat Wall Street analysts estimates only to see its shares fall. The maker of cloud-based human capital management and enterprise financial software reported fiscal second-quarter revenues of $671.1 million, up nearly 28 percent from a year ago, with 30 percent growth in subscription revenue, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud
Urs Hölzle knows a thing or two about the rapid evolution of data centers and the infrastructure behind them. As a Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, he has helped define that evolution over the past couple of decades as the search and ad giant built its own industry-leading global infrastructure. Now, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Inside Experian’s journey to the virtual data center
Credit reporting giant Experian Corp. is in the process of moving most of its data processing outside the four walls of the data center. In a recent conversation, Experian Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson explained the reasoning and the payoff. This is an edited version of the interview. For more on the journey Experian and ...
HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets
Things are up and to the right again at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. as the big computing vendor reported fiscal third-quarter results that easily beat analyst estimates and its own forecasts. Net revenue rose 4 percent, to $7.8 billion, from the prior-year period, though up only 1 percent when adjusted for currency. HPE’s net profit, however, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
VMware doubles down on Windows 10 integration with spruced-up Workspace One endpoint manager
VMware Inc. has tightened integration with personal computers from its Dell Technologies Inc. corporate parent and boosted Windows 10 support in a new release Monday of its Workspace One endpoint management suite. Enhanced Windows 10 support is primarily in the area of security. It includes predictive patching of Windows 10 clients based upon operating system and ...