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Red Hat’s comeback rolls on, thanks to a surging application development business
Red Hat Inc. blew past consensus estimates on both revenue and profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2018 on a surge in its application development-related business, leading it to raise revenue and earnings estimates for the rest of the year. After-hours investors applauded by sending the stock up nearly 10 percent. The Raleigh, North ...
Comtrade keys on simplicity with data protection software for Nutanix servers
Comtrade Software Solutions GmbH is targeting users of Nutanix Inc.’s hyperconverged infrastructure with what it says is the first purpose-built data protection applications for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Called HYCU, which stands for Hyperconverged Uptime, the software takes four minutes of ramp-up learning, three minutes to deploy and two minutes to recover identified data, the company claimed. ...
Cray brings integrated analytics suite to its high-end supercomputers
Venerable supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today is announcing an analytics software suite for its XC family of supercomputers that includes a variety of graph analytics, deep learning and big-data analytics tools. With the Cray Urika-XC software suite, analytics and artificial intelligence workloads can run alongside scientific modeling and simulations without the need to move data between ...
Iowa City beat cop invents a novel solution to the computer theft epidemic
By day, Officer David Schwindt of the Iowa City Police Department bikes or walks the streets of the downtown pedestrian mall, stopping to chat with shoppers and handing out small necessities such as clean socks to the homeless people who live there. By night and on weekends, he builds technology that has the potential to ...
BMC empowers DevOps software development with free workflow simulator
BMC Software Inc. is targeting DevOps devotees with Control-M Workbench, a no-cost, self-service, standalone development environment that builds upon the capability of the Control-M Automation application programming interface it introduced last year. The API enables developers in a DevOps environment to automate workflows in a self-service process that’s compatible with DevOps’ agile release philosophy, which involves software developers ...
SAP ports planning suite to Hana warehouse
SAP SE is giving its customers another nudge toward adopting its Hana hybrid transactional/analytical database with the announcement today of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0 for SAP Business Warehouse/4Hana. Billed as a unified platform for planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation, the new version exploits specific features of the BW/4Hana in-memory data warehouse ...
GE targets power industry with broad Predix update
General Electric Co. is letting no grass grow under the feet of its Predix platform-as-a-service for the industrial Internet of Things. After recently signing a deal to test its instrumentation software at Invenergy LLC following the earlier acquisition of two data intelligence startups, the company said Monday it’s expanding its power and utility portfolio to connect energy ...
Security firm Vidder can now foil attackers at the application level
Vidder Inc. has added endpoint trust assessment to its PrecisionAccess software-defined perimeter product, which provides access protection at the software application level. The company’s approach is based upon the Software-Defined Perimeter initiative that is being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. SDP is essentially an evolution of network access control, or NAC, that provides a finer-grained level ...
Big data firm Hortonworks revamps pricing to cover both on-premises and cloud
Hortonworks Inc. is kicking off its DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, this week with the announcement of a new software support subscription that provides unified pricing to organizations as they move between on-premises and Amazon Web Services Inc.-based cloud deployments. Hortonworks Flex provides a single Hortonworks Data Platform subscription that is transferable between cloud ...
In the Buckeye State, an innovative cybersecurity collaboration experiment takes root
Columbus, Ohio, doesn’t come immediately to mind as a center of high-tech excellence. But thanks to a thriving new experiment in corporate collaboration, the Buckeye State capital is now beginning to turn some heads in tech — in the increasingly challenging area of information security, no less. The Columbus Collaboratory was formed three years ago ...