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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 ...
Dell blames component shortages for slowing growth rate
Saying it is holding or increasing market share in all its core markets, Dell Technologies Inc. reported net revenue of $17.8 billion in its fiscal first quarter revenue, up 46 percent from a year ago. However, the growth rate was down from the 58 percent the company reported in the previous quarter, a fact that officials ...
Sumo Logic seeks to disrupt pricing for log analytics
Sumo Logic Inc., a well-funded log management and analytics startup, has introduced a new pricing scheme and expanded data ingestion capabilities to its core product, which provides an analytics layer that companies can use to manage applications. The company said these enhancements, announced Tuesday, add up to the first cloud-native application management platform to provide a ...
HPE launches community to fuel technology, market development for ‘The Machine’
Seeking to build momentum behind the most ambitious project to emerge from its laboratories in a decade, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced the formation of a user group for technologists, developers and industry experts interested in programming for what it calls the “Memory-Driven Computing environment.” HPE said it will facilitate the group, providing training, ...
MapR pushes deeper into storage market with cloud-scale data store
In a crowded market for big-data platforms, vendors struggle to find differentiation points. Today’s announcement by MapR Technologies Inc. indicates that it has concluded that the data storage platform is one of them. That’s the apparent impetus behind MapR-XD, a cloud-scale data store that the vendor says can manage distributed networks of files, objects and containers as ...
Netskope lands $100M in new funding for its cloud-native security platform
Netskope Inc. is set to break out of the cloud security pack with a huge $100 million late-stage funding round announced today. The oversubscribed Series E round brings the company’s total funding to $231.4 million, an amount that will comfortably see it through to profitability, according to Chief Executive Sanjay Beri (pictured). Founded in 2012, ...
Adaptive Insights adds self-service features and targets software CFOs
Corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has brushed up its Adaptive Suite in version 2017.2, adding self-service analytics, user-configurable time modeling and improved flexibility and scalability. The company is also rolling out its first vertical package, targeting financial executives at software firms. The company made the announcements Wednesday. Self-service analytics addresses the hottest ...
How to find the silver lining in the EU’s looming General Data Protection Regulation penalties
With less than a year remaining until the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation kicks in, the level of hyperventilation in the business world has reached epic proportions. An April study by Veritas reports that 86 percent of organizations worldwide are concerned that that a failure to adhere to GDPR’s strong privacy guidelines could have a “major ...
LinkedIn buys sales productivity startup in a boost for its prospecting business
LinkedIn Corp. has acquired a small startup company that builds products that enhance sales and marketing productivity. Heighten Software Inc.‘s technology improves the sales process through better tracking, pipeline reporting and an intelligent notepad. It has only 10 employees but raised $7.4 million in funding prior to the LinkedIn buyout. Terms of the deal weren’t ...
VMware raises forecast, says digital transformation is lifting all tech boats, but investors yawn
VMware Inc. beat the earnings and revenue forecasts it had revised upward in January and raised guidance for the rest of the year, but investors responded apathetically, bidding the stock down slightly in after-hours trading. The virtualization giant reported revenue of $1.74 billion in the fiscal first quarter of 2018, up 9 percent from the same ...