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Hortonworks turns cash flow-positive as customers sign bigger deals, but investors balk
Updated: Big-data company Hortonworks Inc. continues to make steady progress in its effort to convince skeptics — at least some of them — that a pure open-source business model can work in today’s software market. The company today reported total revenue of $75 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, up 44 percent from a ...
WalkMe adds predictive analytics to its platform for optimizing user experience
WalkMe Ltd., maker of a platform for understanding and improving user experience, has added predictive analytics capabilities to its intelligent assistant technology that interprets user behavior to predict next actions and provide context-sensitive responses. The company primarily targets its technology at e-commerce scenarios in which abandonment is a common problem, as well as at internal uses such ...
Podium Data takes its data lake catalog to the cloud
With the new 3.2 release of its Data Marketplace, Podium Data Inc. is taking its first steps outside the on-premises world and bringing self-service big data to the cloud. The Data Marketplace is essentially a data catalog for use with data lakes that eliminates the need for the extensive extraction and massaging procedures that characterize pure-Hadoop models. ...
Survey finds executives are sharply divided on the impact of automation
Will robots, artificial intelligence and other smart technology drive new highs in business productivity? Or will it steal jobs from human beings by the millions? It turns out the consensus is yes. Or at least that’s what business executives think. A new survey of 3,800 of them from around the world, conducted by Dell Technologies ...
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PC running slowly? You may be a node in a vast cryptomining network
That open tab in the background of the browser you’re looking at right now could be slowing your computer to a crawl. If you’re reading on a smartphone, it could even fry your device. Cryptomining is the hottest thing in cybercrime right now, and many victims don’t even know they’ve been affected. Cryptomining software hijacks ...
Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance
Hortonworks Inc. today brushed up its Hortonworks DataFlow streaming analytics platform with improved support for complex processes and the ability to share and publish data flows directly to production. HDF is an open-source toolset that combines governance, security and management for applications involving real-time processing. It combines multiple open-source projects, including the Apache NiFi integrated data logistics ...
Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again
The $6.3 billion quarterly loss that Microsoft Corp. announced today briefly spooked investors, who sent shares down nearly 3 percent in immediate after-hours trading, but concerns quickly eased on assurances that the loss was thanks to a onetime $13 billion charge triggered by the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Excluding that, the company beat ...
Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta
Data transformation startup Trifacta Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new financing from a group that includes several customers. The seven-year-old firm, which bills itself as a provider of tools for “data wrangling,” or wrestling messy data into usable form, has raised a total of $124 million. The funds will be used for ...
Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud
SAP SE met revenue and profit expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter but saw a continued slowdown in growth in both cloud subscriptions and overall revenue. Shortly before releasing its results this morning, the enterprise resource planning giant also announced plans to acquire Callidus Software Inc., a maker of cloud-based sales force management software. Fourth-quarter revenue ...
Western Digital beats street but stock falls on growth concerns
Western Digital Corp. easily topped analysts’ revenue and profit estimates for its fiscal second quarter today, and it even raised guidance for the current quarter and full year thanks to strong demand spurred by data center growth. But it wasn’t enough for shareholders, who clearly expected a better growth story from the giant maker of ...