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Cisco sales continue to fall as shift to software takes its toll
Cisco Systems Inc. logged its sixth straight quarter of revenue declines but met analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings per share. The company also said it will cut 1,100 more jobs on top of the 5,500 it eliminated last August. The company issued cautious guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter, causing traders to knock its ...
Industrial IoT revs up at big renewable energy provider
The internet of things is headed for a prime-time test as Invenergy LLC, North America’s largest independent, privately held renewable energy provider. It has signed on to deploy General Electric Co.’s Asset Performance Management reliability management software on 13 turbines at six gas-operated thermal plants in the U.S. The software is based upon GE Predix, a ...
CA boosts compliance, security features in mainframe monitoring tools
In the wake of the biggest global ransomware scare ever to hit the Internet, CA Technologies Inc. is introducing new data protection enhancements to two of its security management offerings. The software company said the additions to its CA Data Content Discovery and CA Compliance Event Manager simplify enterprise-wide security management and enable end-to-end protection for data-in-motion across platforms ranging ...
HPE’s ‘The Machine’ draws closer to reality with 160-terabyte single-memory prototype
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. says its long-promised project to reinvent the computer is inching ever closer to completion with the announcement of what it calls the world’s largest single-memory computer, a creation also known as The Machine. A new prototype unveiled today (pictured) sports 160 terabytes of directly addressable main memory, a heretofore unthinkable amount. ...
Puppet brings orchestration to the masses
DevOps and information technology automation software provide Puppet Inc. has announced what it calls its most significant set of product enhancements in years, building orchestration capabilities into an enhanced user interface and improving visibility into the operating environment in which software packages run, particularly in containers. The features are included in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2. The ...
In a frothy market, Talend CEO sticks to fundamentals
Ten months into his tenure as head of a public company, Talend Inc.’s Mike Tuchen (pictured) is establishing himself as one of Silicon Valley’s most accessible chief executives. So when he invited me to call the day after his company on Thursday announced 44 percent revenue growth – and profits that fell slightly short of expectations ...
Talend’s profit falls short, but it issues a bullish forecast
Data integration company Talend SA beat revenue expectations for the first fiscal quarter of 2017, but missed on earnings per share, sending its stock down about 2 percent in after-hours trading. Management issued an upbeat forecast, however, saying all the metrics that matter improved in the quarter. “We’re happy with the quarter,” said Chief Executive ...
Elasticsearch engine gets machine learning capabilities
Elasticsearch Global BV, which does business as Elastic, has added adding machine learning capabilities to its Elastic Stack collection of open source products for searching large databases of unstructured information. The company picked up the technology via its recent acquisition of Prelert Inc., a behavioral analytics vendor. Elastic said the first iteration of the new machine ...
MariaDB secures $27M from European investors to build open-source database franchise
Open source database vendor MariaDB Corp. said it raised €25 million (approximately $27 million) from the European Investment Bank under the European Fund for Strategic Investments, a European Commission project that funnels money to growing businesses in the region. The funding, which is part loan and part equity investment, brings MariaDB’s total funding to around $67 ...
Big tech mergers never work. Is Michael Dell bucking the odds with EMC?
When Dell Inc.’s blockbuster $67 billion purchase of EMC Corp. closed last fall, it was billed as a perfect marriage. Unlike many big acquisitions, there was little overlap in product lines. The business models were complementary too. EMC targeted high-end customers with a major-account sales force while Dell sold direct and through channels, with midsize ...