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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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
IBM says its new tape archive battles ransomware while cutting energy costs
IBM Corp. is stressing security and sustainability with today’s announcement of a tape library for archival storage use that can be physically air-gapped to protect against ransomware and that the company claims uses 97% less power than spinning disks. The IBM Diamondback …
Investors cheer as IBM beats estimates and issues upbeat forecast
Investors who have been anticipating IBM’s third-quarter earnings as a bellwether for the fortunes of the overall technology industry got a reason to cheer this afternoon as the company reported third-quarter results that handily beat expectations and issued an optimistic forecast for …
‘Stupid pill’: Fees for moving data around the cloud persist despite rising customer ire
When it comes to the fees the big cloud platform providers charge for customers to retrieve their data, Vince Kellen is pretty blunt. “It’s a stupid pill,” he said. “I believe they do this because they believe it will keep me from …
Qualtrics says it can reliably correlate employee satisfaction with customer experience
Qualtrics International Inc. today announced a new product line that it says can automate the task of connecting and measuring relationships among employee, customer and brand experiences. Qualtrics CrossXM lets organizations correlate employee experience metrics like manager support, career development and recognition with …
Oracle opens its full internal development platform for customer and partner use
Oracle Corp. today is making the full range of user interface design tools, templates and objects that it uses to develop its commercial applications available to all users of its Oracle Applications Platform. The release is the culmination of a three-year effort …