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Guns or hammers? Big-data firms struggle with their role in responsible data use
Looker Inc.’s business intelligence software can be used to deploy education resources more effectively in inner-city neighborhoods, identify hot spots of violent crime and pinpoint income inequalities in the workforce. It can also be used for racial profiling, political gerrymandering and identifying targets for terrorist attacks. Is it Looker’s job to choose? Chief Executive Frank ...
Cloudera beats the Street, but weak outlook fails to excite wary investors
Cloudera Inc. beat revenue and earnings expectations for its fiscal 2019 first quarter, but failed to raise full-year expectations that it lowered in April, triggering a 40 percent drop in its stock price that day. It wasn’t nearly this bad this time, but investors had clearly hoped the news would be better. In after-hours trading, ...
SAP and IBM marry their cloud services in a partnership aimed at private cloud deployments
IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced plans to launch an edition of the SAP Cloud Platform running on the IBM Cloud for private cloud deployments. The companies said the collaboration will help clients in regulated industries build new applications on the cloud without jeopardizing security and control. The partnership expands on a 46-year relationship ...
Instana extends application monitor to AWS Lambda serverless computing platform
Instana Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence-based monitoring tool for containerized microservice-based applications, has extended its ready to a broad range of Amazon Web Services Inc. products, including the Lambda serverless computing platform. Serverless computing abstracts information technology infrastructure away from applications, enabling developers to focus on function rather than server configurations. Applications are assembled from ...
Dell posts impressive revenue gains as storage business returns to growth
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue rose more than expected in its fiscal first quarter, sparking a 3 percent rise in its stock price in early trading today. Although the shares fell back to rise just a fraction of a point by the end of the trading day, the news was pretty much all positive. The unexpected ...
VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth
VMware Inc.’s strategy shift from being a seller of individual virtualization products to becoming a more pervasive provider of packaged solutions shows no sign of slowing down. The company today reported fiscal first-quarter revenues of $2.01 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year and ahead of the $1.96 billion the company forecast the previous quarter. License revenues grew ...
Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift
Hyperconverged infrastructure maker Maxta Inc. will support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift Container Platform, giving users who want to migrate from VMware Inc. vSphere virtualized environment to Red Hat the ability to do so without disrupting their container environment. Containers are lightweight, self-contained environments that enable applications to be easily moved between different underlying platforms. Maxta said its private cloud infrastructure ...
Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends
The 2016 forecast by Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff (pictured) that his company would reach $20 billion in annual revenues by 2020 struck many people as pretty audacious at the time. Not anymore. With another blowout quarter under its belt and no meaningful competition on the horizon, the company now believes it can record as ...
Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth
Splunk Inc. handily swept past Wall Street estimates on both revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter, but a slowdown in new-customer acquisition didn’t sit well with investors, who knocked shares back more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue jumped 37 percent, to $311.6 million, from the same quarter a year ago, easily ...
MariaDB guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine
MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive proprietary products. The company said MariaDB TX 3.0 is the first enterprise open-source database to provide full Oracle compatibility, including support for sequences and a stored procedure language that ...