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Study finds 20 percent of sensitive files are open for any employee to see
An audit of 80 organizations by data protection vendor Varonis Systems Inc. found that 20 percent of their sensitive files were sitting out in the open for any employee to access. Varonis says the results underscore the difficulties many organizations encounter in applying file- and folder-level protection on Windows servers, in particular. An analysis of a sample of 236.5 million ...
SAP sees strong cloud growth and surprising resilience in software license sales
SAP SE narrowly missed analysts’ profit estimates in the first quarter, but the rest of its news was sufficiently good that investors bid the stock up slightly. New cloud bookings — which reflects cloud-related orders from new customers and incremental cloud business from existing customers — surged 49 percent in the quarter, to $234 million. ...
On a big earnings day, tech giants are banking on the cloud
Four of the tech industry’s giants will report earnings results today, hoping cloud computing will boost their fortunes. Early earnings reports for the first calendar quarter provided some signs that the cloud is helping some tech stalwarts. IBM Corp. saw its shares fall last week on yet another quarterly revenue decline, but cloud growth was strong. ...
Data Expedition bring its FTP data transfer alternative to the cloud
A self-described “quiet software company” that has taken no funding while building a base of more than 200 enterprise customers over the course of 17 years is hoping to make some noise today with the launch of a version of its high-performance data transport software for the major cloud infrastructure platforms. Data Expedition Inc. says its software ...
Red Hat deepens Ansible, hybrid cloud support in latest release of virtualization platform
Red Hat Inc. announced availability of Red Hat Virtualization 4.1, the latest release of the company’s virtualization platform based on the kernel-based virtual machine KVM open-source standard. The software provides for centralized management of virtualized servers and workstations based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with automation capabilities provided by Red Hat’s version of the Ansible ...
Catalogic broadens copy management platform support, targets healthcare providers
Catalogic Software Inc. has added application-aware support for InterSystems Corp’s Caché and SAP SE’s HANA databases, and extended Microsoft SQL Server support to physical hosts in a new release of its ECX copy data management software Support for Caché effectively extends ECX support to Epic Systems Corp.’s electronic health records system, which is used by ...
SnapLogic mines its integration cloud to build AI assistant
Richly funded data integration startup SnapLogic Inc. says it’s building artificial intelligence into its cloud-based service, potentially cutting months of time off of large-scale development projects. Named Iris, after the mythical character who was the messenger of the Greek gods (pictured), the proprietary machine learning technology is the first in what SnapLogic says will be ...
Few firms have coherent plans for the Industrial Internet of Things, survey finds
Over half of executives at 350 industrial companies said they expect the Industrial Internet of Things to have a significant or major impact on their industry within three years, but barely 2 percent have a clear vision for adoption or large-scale implementations underway, according to a new study. The findings suggest that now is the time ...
Earnings preview: Will profits get the tech market rally back on track?
Quarterly earnings season begins this coming week, and the question for technology companies is: How high is up? Despite two weeks of modestly declining share prices in April, technology shares are still up an average of 10 percent in 2017, compared with 4 percent for the overall market. Prior to the latest skid, Apple Inc. ...
Cloudera sets IPO price far below earlier valuation estimates
In a move that’s likely to throw cold water on investors who have been hoping for a rally in enterprise software stocks, Cloudera Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering today that implies a market capitalization of less than half the valuation it received in March 2014. The big data company said ...