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Tableau beats estimates, says pricing will be more aggressive
Investors might not have liked what they saw in Tableau Software Inc.’s first-quarter earnings results, but customers should have reasons to cheer. The business intelligence powerhouse beat quarterly earnings estimates with break-even results, compared to consensus estimates of a 10-cents-per-share loss. Revenues were up 32 percent to nearly $172 million versus a consensus estimate of ...
What funding bust? ON24 notches $25M investment
There’s gold in them thar webcasts. ON24, a company that provides webcast services widely used in B2B marketing and lead generation said that Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing group has invested $25 million in the company. You may not have heard of ON24, but it’s likely you have used its platform. Webcasts typically combine slide ...
Startup enlists humans to solve knotty big data problems
When it comes to Big Data, machines can only do so much. At least that’s what startup Spare5 Inc. is betting with the launch of what it calls an “Intelligent Crowdsourcing Platform” that leverages a community of specialists to process Big Data tasks that require a human touch. Crowdsourcing services today run the gamut from ...
Java on the mainframe?
Yep, and BMC will manage it
IBM mainframes are not generally considered a hotbed of activity for the Java programming language, but you might be surprised. BMC Software Inc. recently surveyed 1,200 mainframe users and found that 93 percent said their Java usage on big iron is growing, with 46 percent saying it’s increasing at least 10 percent a year. That’s ...
OpsDataStore enhances real-time monitoring system
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its namesake IT service management product with a new version that provides real-time troubleshooting, performance and capacity analytics and customized dashboards. The company pitches its product as providing IT operational information in whatever business intelligence tool the customer chooses to use. It replaces a patchwork of more than a dozen monitoring tools ...
Datto says it lets SMBs keep things in synch for less
Flush with cash from a $75 million funding round last November, backup and recovery service provider Datto Inc. is taking on the heavy hitters in cloud file storage and synchronization with an offering aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that’s priced at $10 per terabyte per month for an unlimited number of users in ...
Slow-loading software seen as $7.5B problem
Nimble Storage Inc. is making a pretty good case for moving from disks to flash storage with a new survey that reveals that business users lose about 10 percent of their day just waiting for programs to load. The ‘Mind the Gap’ report, which Nimble commissioned Oxford Economics Ltd. to produce, found that delays in propagating ...
Survey sees rapid growth in enterprise cloud adoption
A new survey of IT professionals indicates that cloud computing is growing faster in large organizations than in small ones. Use of public clouds at large companies will grow 52 percent annually over the next two years, while private cloud use will surge 31 percent per year during that same time, according an online survey ...
GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’
Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for open source software. There’s also a long suggested reading list of articles and FAQs on the GNU.org website he founded that carefully lay ...
Qubole releases Kafka ingestion, conversion service to open source
Less than three weeks after open-sourcing its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer, big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. is at it again. Coincident with Kafka Summit taking place in San Francisco this week, Qubole said it’s releasing its StreamX ingestion service under an Apache open source license. StreamX is used to efficiently and reliably capture large scale, ...