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VMware officially lands on AWS cloud with new management and security features
Nearly a year after signing a landmark deal to bring its software-defined data center technology to the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud, VMware Inc. kicked off its VMworld conference in Las Vegas today with the news that VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available. The service essentially enables the vast majority of companies that ...
Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts
Autofill is one of the most ordinary applications most of us ever use. Every browser has a function that can automatically populate web forms. So do most password managers and dozens of plug-ins and mobile apps. So what makes the developers of Fillr think autofill could be a massive market opportunity? Simply stated, because most autofill ...
Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal
Apache Kafka has a reputation as a lightweight, fast and highly scalable message broker, which passes data between applications. But one feature has frustrated users over the five years since the platform graduated from its incubation period at LinkedIn Corp.: It was impossible to ensure that each and every message that was produced at one end ...
Splunk shares jump as it vaporizes forecasts with blowout earnings
Splunk Inc. blew past second-quarter revenue forecasts with a 32 percent jump in sales today, delighting investors who bid the operational intelligence company’s shares up 10 percent in immediate after-hours trading. Quarterly revenues of $280 million outdistanced consensus estimates by nearly 5 percent. Earnings of $11.5 million, or 8 cents per share, were 2 cents better ...
M-Files acquires Apprento to handle natural-language queries of enterprise content
Document management firm M-Files Corp. Tuesday said it has acquired Apprento Inc., a New Brunswick-based developer of a natural language query engine that works on unstructured text, for an undisclosed amount. Apprento said its analytical engine understands both the semantics and the concepts within content and communication streams, enabling it to filter through large volumes ...
With 26 percent revenue growth, Salesforce tops $10B annual run rate
Salesforce.com Inc. today beat quarterly sales and earnings estimates, raised its forecast for the third straight quarter and said it surpassed the $10 billion annual revenue run rate milestone faster than any enterprise software company in history. But investors apparently wanted more as the stock drifted down about 1 percent in after-hours trading, following a ...
Intel touts 40 percent performance boost in eighth-generation processors
Intel Corp. is introducing what it calls the eighth generation of its Core processors today, claiming a 40 percent performance improvement over previous versions, but reviewers are saying the new chips are mainly heated-up versions of their predecessors. Intel has achieved the gains primarily by squeezing two more cores into the same footprint and making ...
Klaxoon uses gamification to make meetings fun – well, almost
A French company with a funny name is rolling onto U.S. shores with a gamified approach to relieving one of the most painful elements of the typical business day: meetings. Klaxoon SAS launched in 2014 but only set up its U.S. operations in June. The company’s main product is a sort of digital whiteboard that keeps ...
Chips in space: HPE supercomputer prepares for liftoff
When the SpaceX-12 rocket, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, next week en route to the International Space Station National Lab, it’ll carry a new passenger: an Apollo 40 high-performance computer by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. specifically for use on journeys to faraway destinations such as Mars. Call it an extreme ...
Talend CEO on IPO anniversary: ‘I’m happy with our progress’
Mike Tuchen called from Vail, Colorado, where he’s attending the Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum. The chief executive of Talend Inc. estimates that it’s his sixth investment conference this year, but that’s not unusual for the head of a company that has been publicly held almost exactly one year. “In the first year you ...