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PREDICTIONS 2018
Forecast for infrastructure as a service: cloudy and unsettled
Could anyone have predicted Uber would lose its founding CEO or the price of bitcoin would jump 20fold over the course of 2017? No doubt 2018 will be just as unpredictable, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and virtual reality combine and collide. This is the ...
Adobe’s strong quarter underlines stability of its cloud-first model
Six years after shaking up the software world by announcing that it would abandon shrink-wrapped box sales in favor of cloud subscriptions, Adobe Systems Inc. continues to provide evidence of the wisdom of that strategy. The maker of such design-world mainstays as Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat handily beat Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter. ...
MindTickle snags $27M to mint smarter sales reps
MindTickle Inc. has raised $27 million to accelerate the development of its sales enablement platform and take it worldwide. The Series B round, which was led by Canaan Partners with participation from Accel, New Enterprise Associates Inc. and Qualcomm Ventures, brings the company’s total financing to $41.3 million. MindTickle said its employee onboarding, microlearning, skills ...
Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates
Datical Inc., which makes software that automates the release of databases in sync with applications, is teaming up with Pivotal Software Inc. to make it easier for users of Pivotal’s DevOps-oriented Concourse continuous development platform to use Datical services. Datical manages application database changes alongside application code and keeps everything – including code, people and processes ...
Instana scores $20M for its machine learning-based performance management
Two months after releasing its artificial intelligence-based microservices management service, Instana Inc. has secured a $20 million funding round led by Accel (formerly Accel Partners). The Series B round brings total funding to $27 million for the company, which was founded in Solingen, Germany and has its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco. The funds will ...
Accelerite takes single-pipeline approach to data transformation and analysis
Cloud management vendor Accelerite is getting into the big data business with the release today of a significantly enhanced version of what it calls an “end-to-end, self-service” analytics platform that enables data preparation, online analytics processing, visualization and collaboration to be done from a single interface. ShareInsights 2.0 can prepare and query millions of rows and ...
Kinetica hires industry veterans to kick-start growth of its GPU-fueled database
With a product that’s riding one of the hottest trends in high-performance computing right now – graphics processing unit acceleration — Kinetica Db Inc. is bringing in experienced management to help it scale. The company plans to announce the appointment Monday of Paul Appleby (pictured) as chief executive. A veteran of more than 20 years of high-tech ...
Study sees poor capacity planning leading to massive cloud waste
Organizations that migrate existing on-premises workloads to the cloud without revisiting the way services are provisioned are throwing away money, according to a new study. Cloud migration and optimization vendor TSO Logic Inc. looked at the usage patterns of 105,000 operating system instances from 20 customers and prospects over a six-month period and found that 84 percent ...
Dell revenue surges on server growth, but storage sales stay flat
Dell Technologies Inc. revenues surged 21 percent in its fiscal third quarter, led by strong growth in its server business, another blowout quarter by its VMware Inc. subsidiary and continued solid performance of desktop personal computers. But storage revenues were flat, and officials conceded that competitors have taken advantage of the complex merger of Dell ...
New Gartner research finds chief data officer role is rapidly going mainstream
Gartner Inc.’s latest research on the rapidly evolving role of the chief data officer finds that the job is gaining traction in global enterprises and is increasingly driving their path toward digital transformation. The survey of 287 CDOs, chief analytics officers and other high-level data and analytics leaders from around the world found that the ...