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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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., …