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Trovares Inc., a property graph analytics company started by the co-founder and former chief executive of Cray Inc., has raised $2 million to launch a new graph analytics engine. The engine uses parallel processing to deliver what the company says is order-of-magnitude …
IBM beats on profits but misses on revenue, sending investors into a funk
IBM Corp. beat first-quarter net income estimates today but disappointed investors with a larger-than-expected decline in quarterly revenue, sending its stock down more than 3% in after-hours trading. The company blamed delayed decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region for the shortfall and continued …
For commercial drone pilots, the sky’s the limit now
Dan Landis was a model aircraft enthusiast who cut his cut his teeth flying drones in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contractor. Desiree Ekstein was a videographer whose mother suggested a drone might give her work some new perspective. Scott Shepard …
JetStream combines replication, cloud storage for fast data restoration
A year and a week after emerging from stealth, data migration software developer JetStream Software Inc. is entering the data protection market with a service that backs up entire virtual machine images to on-premises infrastructure, the cloud or a combination. JetStream is …
Looker broadens functional focus with new visualization app for sales pros
Continuing its recent campaign to expand into functional specialties, Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is rolling out an extension to its business intelligence platform targeted specifically at sales professionals. Looker for Sales Analytics joins Looker for Digital Marketing and Looker for Web …
As hybrids flower, a new era dawns in cloud computing
For Kenny Mullican, the decision about whether to use a hybrid cloud was once cut-and-dried. “It was a binary choice between your own servers and going with a public cloud,” said the chief information officer at Paragon Films Inc. Fear of losing …
MapR separates Kubernetes storage and compute to boost container flexibility
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up its efforts to hasten its customers’ moves to software containers with a new set of features in its MapR Data Platform that separates computing from storage. MapR described the enhancements, announced today, as deep integrations with the core …
SonicWall report paints sobering picture of cyberthreat trends
SonicWall Inc., the network security provider that spun out of Dell Technologies Inc. in 2016, today released its 2019 Cyber Threat Report, and the results don’t make happy reading for security personnel. The findings, which were gleaned from the company’s network of more than …
Ctera adds edge file server based on HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged platform
Ctera Networks Ltd. today expanded its line of hyperconverged platforms for distributed organizations with a new model that manages data across multiple clouds. The Ctera X Series combines a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. SimpliVity processor with Ctera’s global file system to support edge …
VMware refreshes cloud portfolio with its first native hyperconverged appliance
Showing more confidence that its hybrid and multicloud strategies are finding favor with enterprise customers, VMware Inc. today is expanding both the functional and geographic scope of its services. In particular, the company introduced a version of its Cloud Foundation migration product …