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Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios
Cloudera Inc. is continuing its push into cloud analytics with enhancements to its Altus platform as a service that provide a shared data catalog and contextual consistency to data coming from multiple sources. The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new features make Cloudera Altus with SDX (Shared Data Experience) the best platform for applications that need ...
MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up support for containers with a new feature of its Converged Data Platform that provides for persistent storage and enables the use of stateful containerized applications in an automated, cross-platform environment. MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes is intended to provide consistent data access across cloud and on-premises deployments. Support for ...
Waterline targets data-discovery tool at organizations confronting GDPR deadline
With the May 25 implementation date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, Waterline Data Inc. today is unveiling the Waterline Data Discovery Platform, a data discovery tool that the company saids can dramatically accelerate the process of identifying and organizing an organization’s data assets. The Waterline Data Discovery Platform uses machine learning ...
Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings
VMware Inc. beat forecasts for its fiscal fourth-quarter results, but the news did nothing to ease the beating the stock took today. That’s because of news earlier today that Dell Technologies Inc. had filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that indicated it may go ahead with a reverse merger with VMware that ...
Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates
With competitors from Microsoft Corp. to Oracle Corp. training their guns on Salesforce.com Inc.’s core customer relationship management business, many market watchers have been wondering when the company’s torrid growth rate will slow. They’re still wondering. The CRM giant once again topped estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter, reporting net income of $67.6 million, or ...
Cloudian raises $25M in cash, $100M in credit to fund shift to consumption-based pricing
Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is joining the “composable infrastructure” trend with a combined round of investment and loan financing that will enable it to offer pay-by-the-drink licensing. Composable infrastructure is a cloud-inspired approach to deployment and licensing that virtualizes compute, storage and network resources and delivers them as services. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. ...
TigerGraph adds multiple views, calling it a graph database first
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. is coming out with version 2.0 of its platform today, offering what it says is a unique feature that enables multiple users to work on the same graph simultaneously. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that represent data as objects rather than in rows and columns. Connections can ...
Survey finds wide gap between practices of cloud leaders and laggards
It probably comes as no surprise that companies that are killing it in the cloud are more disciplined, strategic and accountable than those that aren’t. Now there’s a survey to prove it. The study of 550 senior managers at midsized and large organizations who are involved in cloud operations finds that cloud “leaders” – those ...
HPE toasts forecasts with across-the-board sales and profit growth
Call it Meg Whitman’s parting gift. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profit per share in its fiscal first quarter, fueled in roughly equal parts by improved business execution, a strong sales backlog and acquisitions. Revenue rose 11.6 percent year-over-year, to $7.7 billion, beating consensus estimates of $7.07 billion by 9 percent ...
FileCloud combines remote file sharing with enterprise control
CodeLathe LLC, today introduced an enterprise version of its file-sharing and synchronization platform that enables organizations to manage document distribution and access across multiple shared resources with a fine level of control. FileCloud Enterprise Edition is similar in concept to services such as DropBox Inc.’s DropBox and Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive, but it works with existing file permissions ...