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IBM misses revenue target but says steady growth will resume this year
IBM Corp. beat analysts’ expectations today with fourth-quarter earnings of $2.07 per share, 28 cents better than the $1.79 that was expected, but growth continues to be elusive. Revenue fell 6.5% from the same quarter last year, to $20.37 billion, about 1.3% below the consensus of $20.63 billion. The company promised to return to “mid-single-digit” ...
Kyligence’s Apache Kylin-based distributed data warehouse gets cloud-native features
Kyligence Inc., developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today released the fourth generation of the cloud version of its analytics platform. Kyligence Cloud 4 has cloud-native features such as independent storage and compute scaling and support for object storage. The new version uses pre-computation and machine learning ...
Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards
Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. Those are a few of the prognostications being put forward by cloud computing pundits and information technology providers amid the flood of predictions that jam our inbox at this time each year. Here are a few of them, along with ...
SambaNova unveils purpose-built AI machine
SambaNova Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence hardware startup that has raised more than $465 million in venture funding, today introduced its long-anticipated computing platform optimized for AI workloads. SambaNova Systems DataScale employs custom seven-nanometer chips that the company says are better attuned to machine learning and deep learning processes than the general-purpose microprocessors and graphics ...
Okta surfs cloud migration wave to strong revenue and earnings growth
Okta Inc. continues to reap the benefits of the shift to remote work and accelerated adoption of cloud computing with fiscal third-quarter results that soundly beat analyst estimates. Revenue rose 42% from a year ago, to $217.4 million, well ahead of the $203 million the company had forecast last quarter and the $202.7 million analysts expected. Subscription ...
SPECIAL REPORT: CLOUD ON THE EDGE
Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all
In the process of building a global e-commerce empire that can deliver goods overnight to much of the developed world, Amazon.com Inc. has developed expertise in distributed computing, robotics and factory automation. Google LLC’s quest to deliver subsecond responses to search queries has driven it to build a presence on more than 90 of the world’s ...
Strong subscription revenue growth highlights upbeat VMware earnings
The good times continue to roll at VMware Inc., which topped analysts’ expectations today on both revenue and profit in the third quarter and raised its financial outlook for the rest of the year. The company, which has positioned itself as a kind of broker for customers using multiple clouds, reported third-quarter net income of ...
Informatica boosts data integration features for Snowflake data warehouse
Informatica Corp. is expanding its line of data integration and governance tools for the Snowflake Computing Inc. data warehouse with today’s launch of serverless data integration pipelines, a portal for creating customer profiles and a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools. Informatica, which is the largest pure-play data integration provider, has been steadily migrating its ...
VMware targets firewalls in first rollouts of its Modern Network framework
Building on the Project Monterey enterprise virtualization strategy it outlined at its VMworld conference last month, VMware Inc. today announced a framework for network, security and physical infrastructure services along with a new subscription service for home-based workers and virtual access control services. The virtualization giant is particularly focused on eliminating the need for the hardware ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse
In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way service providers are deployed to deliver aid as quickly as possible to stranded ...