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SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
The future of the data center: The walls come tumbling down
The developers at credit reporting giant Experian plc write code without any idea whether it will ultimately run inside the company’s data centers, a rented space known a colocation center, in the cloud — or all three. And that suits Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson just fine. Libenson, a veteran CIO who joined Experian three ...
VMware earnings again defy gravity, but its stock falls anyway
Continuing to defy predictions that its core computing virtualization product is headed for decline, VMware Inc. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings today that beat expectations for both revenue and earnings per share. The Palo Alto, California-based company also raised its third-quarter and full-year outlook, citing strong customer response to its partnerships with Amazon Web Services Inc. ...
Hortonworks boosts streaming data support with Kafka integration
Hortonworks Inc. today added improved support for Apache Kafka to its Hortonworks DataPlane Service, underlining the growing importance of streaming sources to its big-data customers. Launched about a year ago, DPS is a cloud offering for combining all types of data in multiple data lakes and other data repositories. It’s intended to make it easier ...
Pure Storage shares rocket 14% after solid earnings and first acquisition
Updated: Everything came together today for Pure Storage Inc. In its fiscal second quarter reported today, the maker of all-flash-memory storage devices said its customers’ accelerating move to flash storage combined with stabilization in component pricing helped the company beat its revenue and margin forecasts and raise its full-year guidance. Investors celebrated by bidding shares up ...
JetStream’s VMware-blessed data protection platform bypasses snapshots and agents
JetStream Software Inc. today debuted a continuous replication platform for the VMware Inc. vSphere virtualization environment, saying it’s the first data protection product of its kind to be endorsed by VMware. The company, which was founded by the same team that started FlashSoft Corp., an early maker of flash virtualization software, said JetStream Data Protection goes beyond ...
Postman drops license fees for small-team API development toolset
Postdot Technologies Inc., maker of the Postman application program interface development environment, is dropping license fees for many of its collaboration features, including teams, team workspaces and the development and debugging toolset. Previously, teams-related features were available exclusively to paying users of the company’s Pro and Enterprise plans, which start at $8 per user per ...
Oracle’s ‘self-driving’ database moves into transaction processing mainstream
Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison has repeatedly called the firm’s new Autonomous Database “the most important thing we have ever done,” and today he announced it’s finally available for use in on-premises transaction processing environments. In an hourlong presentation punctuated by frequent jabs at competitor Amazon Web Services Inc., Ellison (pictured) ...
Talend revenue surges on ‘exploding’ cloud growth, but investors unimpressed
Talend SA today reported earnings results in line with analyst estimates and said its cloud business is growing at a rate that exceeds even its most optimistic forecasts. That prompted the data integration firm to raise its third-quarter and full-year revenue guidance modestly. But the revised full-year profitability figures came in slightly under analyst estimates, sparking ...
How one Indian offshoring firm is striving to look more American
To veteran tech watchers, the name Infosys Ltd. recalls the offshore outsourcing boom of the late 1990s, when the company and others such as Tata Consultancy Service Ltd. and Wipro Ltd. burst on the scene to offer low-cost coding services by skilled Indian programmers at a small fraction of the cost of domestic labor. Times ...
Tableau’s strong quarter clouded by weaker full-year forecast
The January 2016 earnings massacre that saw Tableau Software Inc.’s stock fall 50 percent in a single day following a disappointing earnings report is increasingly a distant memory as the business intelligence provider today reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that blew past analyst estimates. However, the company’s shift to subscriptions continues to take a toll on ...