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Updated: VMware Inc. beat Wall Street estimates on both revenues and earnings in the first quarter, but the results weren’t quite the blowout investors have come to expect recently — and they responded with a light knuckle-wrap, sending shares down more than …
Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. The company, …
JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery software
JetStream Software Inc. today said it secured new early-stage funding of $7.7 million for its data protection technology aimed at managed service and cloud service providers. The company had raised $3.8 million in an unannounced seed funding round early last year. JetStream President …
Dialpad gives sales reps real-time call transcription and coaching
Dialpad Inc., developer of business messaging and conferencing systems based on the voice over internet protocol, is deepening its push into the sales force automation market. The latest fruit of the effort is today’s announcement of Dialpad Sell, a cloud service that …
Momentary blip or strike two? Pure Storage earnings miss again
Pure Storage Inc. missed expectations on earnings and revenues for the second straight quarter today, sending its stock plunging more than 18% in after-hours trading. The decline continued after the opening bell on Wednesday, with PSTG down 22% at mid-day. The company …
Stratoscale furthers its drive toward a multicloud hybrid platform
Continuing its evolution from a provider of hyperconverged software into the developer of a full private cloud software stack, Stratoscale Ltd. today introduced a new version of its namesake offering. Version 5 adds new identity management services along with support for message buses, domain …
Datastax previews cloud-native version of its Cassandra-based database
DataStax Inc. will kick off its new user conference today by introducing a cloud-native version of its Apache Cassandra-based NoSQL database management system, along with a set of services to enable users to get started rapidly developing applications in the cloud. DataStax Constellation …
Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost-management market heats up
Apptio Inc., which makes software that helps companies get a tighter grip on their information technology expenses, has signed a deal to acquire Cloudability Inc., an eight-year-old startup that specializes in tracking costs across multiple clouds. Terms weren’t announced, but Apptio said the …
Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform. The announcement today fills an important gap in Confluent’s product portfolio. Although …
Digital transformation boom thrusts CIOs into media spotlight
For Bernie Gracy, the culmination of 20 years of speaking experience came last fall when he stepped on stage in front of 7,000 people at a Amazon Web Services Inc. conference in Chicago last summer. “This old dog had to learn some …