Salesforce.com’s shares drop following light earnings outlook
By Robert Hof
Salesforce.com reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, but a weaker-than-expected third-quarter outlook tanked shares in after-hours trading.
By Robert Hof
Turning to composable infrastructure for business agility | #VMworld
No business wants to spend time thinking about their tech infrastructure. They have better things to do, like serving customers. However, in this age of digital transformation, business is defined by their infrastructure. Squaring…
HPE: Opening up entrenched business models and embracing internal code-sharing | #SeizeTheData
Finding ways of innovating within an industry is always a challenge, even when technological advances and creative startups are practically bursting forth. To some established tech analysts and advisors, simply identifying which aspects of…
Why is “Ops” important in DevOps? | #VMworld
Josh Atwell, developer advocate at NetApp, Inc., wants to see more focus on the “Ops” in the DevOps movement. John Troyer (@jtroyer) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE media team,…
Edtech platform Coursera targets enterprise with ‘Coursera for Business’
By Eric David
Online learning platform Coursera has just announced a new service aimed at tailoring its educational tools for big companies. The new Coursera for Business offers curated learning plans and powerful analytics, as well as the ability for businesses to…
HPE embraces machine learning, key alliances | #SeizeTheData
By Tim Hawkins
The HPE Big Data Conference day two keynote opened with Jeff Veis, VP, HP Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, noting that some big announcements would be made during the presentation. Veis quickly moved on to introducing Robert…
You’re not the only one trying to monetize your data. How can you protect it? | #SeizeTheData
By R. Danes
As the cloud infrastructure revolution continues, it brings with it both rewards and challenges. While some segments in enterprise are able to adjust with minimal strain, some require considerable tweaking, and still others are…
Analysts examine edge innovation, arbitration and connectivity | #VMworld
Networking, storage and applications performance are all getting a strong jolt with the emergence of cross-cloud interoperability, as well as unified access interfaces and improving architecture. But with these advancements, there will also be…
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Facebook’s new compression algorithm could be a game-changer for data storage
Compression is front and center at Facebook’s annual @Scale conference in San Jose. The social networking giant open-sourced a homegrown algorithm called Zstandard at the event today that is described as faster, more efficient…
How HPE plans to extend the data curve, work with the entire cloud ecosystem | #SeizeTheData
As the ability to retain vast amounts of data, examine it and apply findings to further data exercises becomes more and more accessible, establishing policies for effectively going through these steps becomes an increasingly…