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Dell touts simplification in broad upgrade of VxRail hyperconverged line
Dell Technologies Inc. is beefing up its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and adding an option for users to incorporate external third-party storage with a series of announcements tonight. The highlight of the multipart announcement is to “simplify operations and deployment from day zero through day two,” said Nancy Hurley, senior manager of program management for Dell’s ...
Surprise growth in data center business propels VMware past earnings estimates
VMware Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report highlighted both the progress the company is making in moving to a subscription sales model and the surprising resilience of corporate data centers. Revenues of $2.99 billion were better than analysts’ $2.95 billion estimates and earnings per share of $1.76 also beat estimates by four cents. Neither figure was ...
Okta reports strong growth, citing synergies from Auth0 acquisition
Okta Inc. today reported strong revenue and profit growth in its first fiscal quarter, highlighted by a 52% increase in its subscription backlog, but the identity and access management company issued mixed guidance for the second quarter and full year. Revenue for both is expected to come in ahead of estimates but forecast earnings-per-share is below ...
Databricks releases data-sharing protocol to open source
Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today to launch a new open-source project called Delta Sharing that provides an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, regardless of the platform on which the data resides. The company also announced reliability, governance and scalability enhancements to its “lakehouse,” the term it uses ...
Catalogic sells flagship business to IBM to focus on Kubernetes backup
Catalogic Software Inc. is selling off its flagship business to IBM Corp. to concentrate its resources on what it believes is a bigger opportunity in the cloud. The company announced today that IBM will buy its ECX copy data management business for an unspecific amount. Catalogic will focus instead on CloudCasa, a cloud-native data protection service. Spun ...
Five9 CEO: Virtual agents will transform our interaction with call centers
With a stock price that has tripled over the past two years and three straight quarters of strong financial performance under its belt, cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. is on a roll. The San Ramon, California-based company’s software-as-a-service platform has caught the attention of business leaders over the past year as they scrambled to ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
COVID’s silver lining: The race to cloud-based cybersecurity quickens
When security integrator Optiv Security Inc. went into lockdowns more than a year ago, Chief Information Officer Sujan Turlapaty immediately realized what he was up against. “We went from managing 20 to 30 branch offices to 2,500 remote offices,” he said. “The attack surface was much bigger.” That has prompted the firm to overhaul its cybersecurity ...
Pure Storage boards Kubernetes train for software-defined management
Doubling down on the assets it purchased with the acquisition of Portworx Inc. last fall, Pure Storage Inc. today is enabling code-directed storage and data management along with unified visibility and support using the Kubernetes orchestrator for the portable operating platforms called containers. The new features, which are being introduced at the company’s Accelerate 2021 ...
VMware picks longtime executive Raghuram as new CEO
VMware Inc. today chose a longtime insider to lead the company through a major product line makeover and an impending spinoff from parent Dell Technologies Inc. Raghu Raghuram, 58, is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer of products and cloud services. He will take over as chief executive on June 1 following the departure ...