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Data integration firm Informatica Inc. posted second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street estimates and said its business shows no signs of slowing amid recessionary fears. Revenue rose 9% year-over-year, to $372.0 million, led by a 24% increase in subscription revenues, to …
What recession? Tech spending stays robust as digital transformation plans forge ahead
In announcing second-quarter earnings on July 18, IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna commented that his business is not only not showing any signs of suffering from recessionary pressures but may actually be benefiting from them. “We see technology as deflationary,” he …
TestFit lands $20M to expand its real estate feasibility analytics software
TestFit Inc. has become the latest entrant in the booming market for real estate and construction technology to raise significant funding. The Dallas-based company today announced a $20 million Series A financing round to develop its real estate feasibility software. That brings …
Oracle tightens Azure ties with no-cost database interconnect service
Oracle Corp. is broadening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. in an announcement today of new services aimed at blurring the line between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure allows Microsoft customers to provision, access …
IBM earnings show solid growth but stock slides anyway
IBM Corp. beat second-quarter earnings estimates today, but shareholders were unimpressed, sending the computing giant’s shares down more than 4% in early after-hours trading. Revenue rose 16%, to $15.54 billion in constant currency terms, and rose 9% from the $14.22 billion IBM …
StarRocks’ real-time analytics engine moves to the cloud
The red-hot market for real-time analytics in the cloud just got another entrant with StarRocks Inc.’s announcement today of a cloud-native version of its SQL online analytics processing database engine. StarRocks Cloud is a fully managed software-as-a-service version of the platform the …
Scribe Security rolls out code integrity validator for software supply chains
Scribe Security Ltd. said today that it has released a key component of the suite of tools it is building to ensure software supply chain security. Scribe Integrity is a code integrity validator that authenticates open-source and proprietary source code created with …
Endpoints are a growing security problem, survey says
Nearly half of the endpoint devices corporations manage are at risk because they’re no longer on the information technology organization’s radar or critical software is outdated, according to a survey released today. The survey, by endpoint management firm Adaptiva Corp. and conducted …
Major Canadian internet outage attributed to router glitch
Internet and wireless service from Rogers Communications Inc. are almost fully back online following a 19-hour outage that began early Friday morning and disrupted banking, transportation, cell phone and even some 911 emergency services in Toronto and parts of eastern Canada. Rogers, …
Capital One sees win-win in selling software built on Snowflake cloud
From General Electric Corp. and Xerox Corp. to Radioshack Corp., PerkinElmer Inc. and Sears Holding Corp., the history of computing is littered with companies that were very good at using technology but not as good at making and selling it. Capital One …