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Data governance startup Okera Inc. today added distributed stewardship features to its Okera Dynamic Access Platform, enabling large organizations to delegate and federate data access privileges across an organization. The feature enables businesses to scale their data governance practices to levels that weren’t previously …
Oracle beats earnings forecast but says investments will tamp down next quarter
Oracle Corp. today reported financial results that topped expectations in its fiscal third quarter on the strength of sales of its Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure and cloud-based enterprise resource planning products. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison also brashly predicted …
Talend to sell to private equity firm Thoma Bravo in $2.4B deal
Data integration company Talend SA announced today it has agreed to be acquired by tech-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo LP for $66 per share. The cash transaction values the company at $2.4 billion, or about 29% more than Talend’s Tuesday closing …
TrustArc bids to automate privacy rules enforcement
Data privacy management firm TrustArc Inc. today announced a service that provides a single point of control for identifying and managing information that may be subject to privacy regulations. Called PrivacyCentral, the hosted service simplifies management of privacy programs and reduces the …
VMware and Nvidia team to deliver virtualized AI workloads
VMware Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today are teaming up to hasten development of enterprise artificial intelligence applications. New releases of the virtualization giant’s vSphere 7 server virtualization and vSAN 7 storage virtualization product will run applications requiring AI-ready infrastructure with improved security …
Okta shares plunge on plans to acquire rival Auth0 and cautious earnings guidance
Cloud identity access management firm Okta Inc. said today it will acquire rival Auth0 Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion. The news came just hours before Okta announced earnings results that exceeded analyst expectations but gave guidance that disappointed some …
Cutover banks $35M for its work orchestration platform
Godesic Ltd., which does business under the name Cutover, today announced a $35 million financing round to continue to develop and sell its work orchestration and observability platform. With the Series B round, the company has now raised more than $54 million. Funding …
HPE beats forecasts but fails to return to growth as data center business drags
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares climbed 3% in after-hours trading today before falling back after the company reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations. The results provided the best evidence yet that its turnaround, fueled by edge computing, software-defined infrastructure and …
Kaskada data science automation platform aims to speed machine learning models into production
More than a year after announcing plans to automate the feature engineering phase of artificial intelligence projects, Seattle-based startup Kaskada Inc. is bringing its first product to market. Kaskada says it aims to democratize feature engineering, an often laborious process that requires …
VMware stays course through executive transition with rock-solid financial results
Losing its dynamic chief executive to the top job at Intel Corp. hasn’t slowed VMware Inc.’s momentum, at least not yet. As it does nearly every quarter, the virtualization giant posted fourth-fiscal quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on strong growth …