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ClusterHQ Inc. is attacking a critical shortcoming of container technology – statelessness – with two new container data management products intended for use by application developers. The company likens its new FlockerHub hosted data management repository to GitHub, the repository hosting service that …
Apptio handily beats forecasts in first quarterly earnings report
Apptio Inc. reported its first quarterly earnings results as a public company, and analysts cheered. Total revenues of $40.6 million were up 26 percent from the third quarter of 2015, and quarterly losses narrowed to $4.5 million from $7.4 million. Gross margins …
‘IFTTT for work’: Tibco debuts personal automation tool
If you’ve ever used the personal automation suite IFTTT (If This Then That), then you have a head start on understanding Tibco Software Inc.’s new take on personal automation. The middleware giant today is introducing what it calls a personal automation software-as-a-service …
Tableau shares plunge as third-quarter revenues miss forecast
Still struggling to recover from a fourth-quarter 2015 earnings disappointment that sent its shares down more than 50 percent in a single day, Tableau Software Inc. again missed the mark today. The data analytics and visualization software company reported that third quarter revenues rose 21 percent …
OpsDataStore boosts power management, root-cause analytics
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its statistics-grounded service management suite with improved root-cause analysis and better support for Intel-based servers via integration with the chip maker’s Data Center Manager power monitoring system. OpsDataStore Uses a dynamic object model to automatically establish relationships between …
Customer relationship management startups Emissary, Freshdesk score new funding
Investors are placing fresh bets on customer relationship management (CRM) startups, indicating that plenty of growth potential remains in a 20-year-old market. Emissary Inc. launched yesterday with a $10 million series A funding round for its proposition of connecting salespeople with former …
Trifacta tackles data integration for non-big data environments
Trifacta Inc. today is announcing a version of its namesake data preparation tool designed for non-big data environments. The company, which calls the discipline it enables “data wrangling,” said Wrangler Edge is intended for use by organizations that may not have Hadoop or …
Kinetica aims to speed users onto its graphics chip database train
Kinetica Db Inc., which makes a high-speed in-memory database designed for use with hardware graphics processing unit chips, is adding programs to make its product and applications easier to install and operate. The Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs “help customers translate business requirements into …
Atlassian beats estimates but investors shrug
Atlassian Corp. Plc. exceeded revenue estimates and reported slightly better-than expected earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 2017, but investors bid the stock down a little less than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenues of $136.8 million for the first quarter were …
Can your connected devices be hijacked? UK firm has a way to find out
In the wake of last week’s massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the domain name server hosting provider Dynamic Network Services Inc. that brought down some of the internet’s largest websites, I got an email from London-based Bullguard Ltd. informing …