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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 ...
Cloud computing is consolidating, raising the risk of customer lock-in
Barely a decade into the cloud revolution, consolidation is already setting in, and the implications for customers aren’t good. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. The three areas of greatest consolidation are currently in the base-level computing and storage known as infrastructure as a service, desktop applications delivered via the cloud and customer ...
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Quantum leap: Obstacles remain, but a revolution in computing is almost here
Salesman Tom is about to hit the road for a monthlong journey to visit customers and sales prospects, a trip that will take him to 50 destinations across the United States. Tom needs to optimize the trip by three priorities. He must first maximize the time he spends with each client. Second, he must complete ...
CloudVelox extends cloud-moving toolset with on-premises options
Cloud automation software provider CloudVelox Inc. is expanding its migration scope into the data center with release 5.0 of its One Hybrid Cloud software. Announced today, the new release enables three new migration scenarios, including between data centers, racks and cloud to data center. The software now also supports migrations to VMware Inc. virtual environments. ...