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Neo4j boasts of speed and scalability improvements in new version of its graph database
Neo4j Inc., maker of the most widely used graph database, today is releasing version 5 of its core engine to general availability, boasting major performance and scalability improvements. Graph databases have the unique ability to represent complex relationships in a way that enables rapid navigation between elements to discover correlations The company’s AuraDB managed service ...
VMware targets remote workers with beefed-up SD-WAN client
Targeting the more than 25 million people who are now working primarily from home in the U.S. alone, VMware Inc. today announced a new client for use in software-defined wide-area network scenarios that it said provides enterprise-grade security, network quality and management features. The company also said it’s expanding its SD-WAN and secure access service ...
Native Python support tops list of new Snowflake features for developers
Cloud data provider Snowflake Inc. today announced it’s adding support for the Python programming language favored by data scientists to its Data Cloud and tightening integration with the collaboration platform it picked up with the acquisition of Streamlit Inc. in March. Snowpark for Python incorporates Python into the Snowpark development framework, which provides application program interfaces ...
Amplitude beats estimates on record bookings
Amplitude Inc., a maker of marketing-oriented analytics software that staged a successful international public offering a year ago, bucked the recent trend among tech companies by reporting third-quarter results yesterday that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Revenue of $61.6 million beat Wall Street expectations of $60.1 million and the loss of three cents per share was better ...
Kyndryl’s loss widens but company says strategy is on track
Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the services business that spun out of IBM Corp. a year ago, reported flat revenues and a larger loss in its 2023 fiscal second-quarter earnings released today. Revenue fell 9% from a year ago, to $4.2 billion but grew 2% in constant currency on a pro forma basis. The company reported a ...
Informatica CEO unbowed by market tumult: ‘This is not our first rodeo at a tough economic time’
In announcing third-quarter revenues Wednesday that undershot analyst estimates by about 5%, data integration giant Informatica Corp. cited many of the same factors as other companies who have reported earnings over the past two weeks: global economic uncertainty, the war in Europe, rising inflation and the resulting reluctance by customers to commit to big deals. ...
Kyndryl branches out into business consulting
Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the services company that spun out of IBM Corp. nearly a year ago, has launched a business consulting practice to complement its mostly technology-focused service lines. Kyndryl Consult is aimed at aligning technology projects around business outcomes, the company said. Services cover IT strategy and operations, cloud migration, application and mainframe modernization, ...
Cloud growth boosts SAP results despite falling license revenues
Strong performance in SAP SE’s cloud business drove better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, although the company said today that it’s tightening cost controls in an uncertain economic climate in Europe. Total revenue grew 5%, to $7.84 billion, beating analysts’ expectations of $7.62 billion. Cloud and software revenue climbed 5%, to $6.71 billion. SAP said it benefited from ...
Red Hat targets complex edge uses with lightweight OpenShift implementation
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today is stepping up its support for small edge devices with the introduction of a new software package. Red Hat Device Edge delivers an operating environment compatible with the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers and that runs on devices such as robots, “internet of things” devices and point-of-sale terminals. It’s based ...
Red Hat’s virtual Linux workstation is now available on AWS
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The product is a virtual Linux workstation that can be accessed via Amazon’s NICE DCV remote visualization protocol, a standard web browser or a Windows or Mac thin client. Red ...