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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 ...
With Duo acquisition, Cisco buys into multicloud security
Cisco Systems Inc. announced today it plans to acquire privately held Duo Security Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based maker of a cloud-based access control and multifactor authentication product, for $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards. Duo’s cloud-based zero-trust security platform verifies the identity of users and the health of their devices before granting ...
Codefresh looks to make Kubernetes orchestration easier for enterprises
Fresh off an $8 million funding round led by Microsoft Corp.’s venture capital arm, Israeli startup Codefresh Inc. today released an enterprise version of its namesake software for managing continuous integration and development on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. Codefresh shortcuts the complexity of Kubernetes configuration with a preconfigured automation platform that it says helps organizations deploy ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Get ready for the next big disruption in the cloud: serverless computing
In the process of sending more than 1.5 billion messages a day and interacting with more than 1 billion consumers a month, Braze Inc. uses a lot of cloud infrastructure. But its business is unpredictable, so demand for computing resources can fluctuate dramatically depending on the volume of data it must transform to support its ...
Tamr raises $18M for its campaign to unify data siloes
Data integration vendor Tamr Inc. Wednesday said it has closed an $18 million funding round to continue development and expand sales channels for what it calls a “machine-driven, human-guided approach to data unification.” That brings the Cambridge, Mass.-based company’s total funding to $65 million, said Chief Executive Andy Palmer. That’s less than the nine-figure amounts ...
Data-for-good programs are also good for business, Gartner says
Organizations are increasingly launching data-for-good programs for reasons that are both charitable and commercially lucrative, according to a new report by Gartner Inc. Fear of legal or regulatory consequences shouldn’t hold others back. Gartner defines data-for-good as “a movement in which people and organizations transcend organizational boundaries to use data to improve society.” Examples include ...