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HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist worst is over, but investors not so sure
The word “down” appears 21 times in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings release, which gives you some indication of the challenges the company faces. HPE’s results were expected to be dismal, and the company surprised no one with earnings that met Wall Street expectations on a 13 percent plunge in revenue compared to the ...
CoreOS touts portability in enhanced container-management platform
CoreOS Inc. is adding features to its Tectonic container management platform as it welcomes 800 open source and container fans to its CoreOS Fest conference this week in San Francisco. The enhancements enable greater portability of applications across hybrid clouds while giving customers freedom to switch vendors and platforms, the company said. CoreOS sells a ...
Report: Risk management pros say their companies aren’t ready for the Internet of Things
Organizations are increasingly worried about the security risks of the Internet of Things, but have a few action plans for dealing with them, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute and the Shared Assessments Program, an industry-standard body focused on third-party risk assurance. Ponemon surveyed 533 people who have a role in risk ...
Splunk beats earnings estimates, but slowdown in customer growth tugs on shares
Splunk Inc. beat analyst revenue and earnings-per-share estimates in its first fiscal quarter and raised its outlook for the full year, but it wasn’t good enough for investors. A slowdown in the company’s overall growth rate and a small decline in new-customer growth sent its shares down nearly 4 percent in immediate after-hours trading. Update: On ...
Controversial security unicorn Tanium adds $100 million to its war chest
Tanium Inc., the highly valued and highly controversial security software company, is selling $100 million of common stock in an apparent bid to enable early investors to cash in some of their shares. The new funding round is being led by TPG Growth, which was an early investor in the firm. It brings Tanium’s total ...
Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool
The red-hot concept of big data as a service is getting a boost from no less than three major companies this week as Cloudera Inc., DataStax Inc. and IBM Corp. all roll out new offerings. Cloudera today will introduce Cloudera Altus, a platform as a service initially running on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud ...
Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database
Couchbase Inc. is continuing its push to position its NoSQL database as a platform for customer engagement with the announcement of version 5.0 today. Continuing an evolution it began earlier this year, the company said its rebranded “engagement database” taps into dynamic data at any scale and across any channel or device with a focus ...
GoodData embeds analytics, machine learning in applications and workflows
Business analytics-at-scale provider GoodData Corp. is releasing new technology that enables customers to embed analytics and machine learning capabilities into existing applications and workflows. The company is positioning the new features as a “change in strategy” following an earlier repositioning around analytics integrated into applications. The company said its analytics can now be embedded in most ...
Pentaho bids to bring Apache Spark to the masses
Data integration and analytics supplier Pentaho, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group Co., is throwing its arms around Apache Spark in the new release of its Pentaho Business Analytics product. Pentaho said that with the 7.1 version, it’s the first data integration provider to offer “adaptive execution” on any engine for big data processing, with Spark the first ...
Salesforce.com beats estimates and raises forecast, says it’s outgrowing all competitors
Salesforce.com Inc. today beat earnings estimates and raised its full-year revenue guidance for the second time in two quarters. The leading provider of customer relationship management software reported a net loss of $9.2 million on revenue of $2.39 billion for its fiscal first quarter. After adjustments such as the cost of stock compensation, profits were ...