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Looking to wring more value out of its VMware Inc. subsidiary’s multi-cloud strategy while advancing its own APEX composable infrastructure offering, Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a bundle that provides consistent operations across multicloud environments. The company is also adding an object storage …
Sigstore aims to close the trust gap in open-source software
One of the great virtues of open-source software – which is that anyone can contribute – is also one of its greatest weaknesses. The issue is that supply-chainlike process by which projects involving multiple contributors come together is based to a large …
Amplitude shakes off Wall Street malaise as initial share price jumps 57%
Conventional wisdom says that behavior tracking firm Amplitude Inc. chose a terrible day to go public with the Nasdaq composite index down nearly 2.5% today, but the nearly 57% pop in the company shares indicates that investors are looking beyond the short …
As a skills crisis mounts, tech leaders pivot: ‘It’s crazy the hiring spree they’re on’
For data scientists, Java developers and cloud computing experts, these are the best of times. For the companies looking to hire them? Not so much. The skills shortage that has been a constant background thrum in information technology industries for decades is …
HPE beats earnings estimates, saying its ‘as-a-service’ model is winning over customers
A confident Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. today reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations on revenue that was in line with Wall Street estimates. The company raised its guidance on free cash flow and earnings per share for the year, the fourth …
Okta says interest in zero-trust security is accelerating its growth
With second-quarter earnings that blew away Wall Street forecasts, Okta Inc. says its already rapid growth is poised to accelerate as enterprises climb aboard the zero-trust security boat in the wake of a pandemic that has obliterated corporate perimeters. Key to that …
Databricks funding rolls on as it closes $1.6B late-stage round at $38B valuation
In an announcement that could be said to confer upon the analytics company the title of “super unicorn,” Databricks Inc. today announced a $1.6 billion late-stage funding round that pegs its valuation at $38 billion. The Series H round, which was expected, …
VMware beats estimates but stock falls on slower-than-expected cloud business growth
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. beat earnings and revenue estimates in its second quarter and raised profit and margin forecasts for the third quarter and full year. Earnings of $739 million, or $1.75 per share, beat consensus estimates by 11 cents, while revenue of …
Bodo raises $14M for Python-optimized analytics platform
Analytics startup Bodo Inc. said today it has raised $14 million in a Series A funding led by Dell Technologies Capital to build and sell its parallel computing platform optimized for analytics and machine learning. Specifically, the two-year-old firm is targeting Python, …
Solo.io adds API gateway to its service mesh management platform
Solo.io Inc., a startup that helps organizations address the management challenges of integrating software containers and microservices into their environments, today added an application programming interface gateway for managing incoming or “north/south” traffic to its Gloo Mesh Enterprise platform. Gloo Mesh Enterprise …