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Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. today introduced a fully managed version of its product with what it calls enterprise-grade security and massive scalability. The new Neo4j Aura Enterprise isn’t the company’s first foray into managed services. It launched Aura Professional, a service …
Cloud and PCs help Microsoft toast estimates in its first $40 billion quarter
Microsoft stock soared nearly 5% in early after-hours trading as the company trounced lowered revenue and profit expectations for its fiscal second quarter and topped $40 billion in quarterly sales and $15 billion in profit for the first time. Both the cloud …
IBM misses revenue target but says steady growth will resume this year
IBM Corp. beat analysts’ expectations today with fourth-quarter earnings of $2.07 per share, 28 cents better than the $1.79 that was expected, but growth continues to be elusive. Revenue fell 6.5% from the same quarter last year, to $20.37 billion, about 1.3% …
Kyligence’s Apache Kylin-based distributed data warehouse gets cloud-native features
Kyligence Inc., developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today released the fourth generation of the cloud version of its analytics platform. Kyligence Cloud 4 has cloud-native features such as independent storage and compute scaling …
Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards
Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. Those are a few of the prognostications being put forward by cloud computing pundits and information technology providers amid the flood of predictions that jam our inbox …
SambaNova unveils purpose-built AI machine
SambaNova Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence hardware startup that has raised more than $465 million in venture funding, today introduced its long-anticipated computing platform optimized for AI workloads. SambaNova Systems DataScale employs custom seven-nanometer chips that the company says are better attuned …
Okta surfs cloud migration wave to strong revenue and earnings growth
Okta Inc. continues to reap the benefits of the shift to remote work and accelerated adoption of cloud computing with fiscal third-quarter results that soundly beat analyst estimates. Revenue rose 42% from a year ago, to $217.4 million, well ahead of the $203 …
Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all
In the process of building a global e-commerce empire that can deliver goods overnight to much of the developed world, Amazon.com Inc. has developed expertise in distributed computing, robotics and factory automation. Google LLC’s quest to deliver subsecond responses to search queries has …
Strong subscription revenue growth highlights upbeat VMware earnings
The good times continue to roll at VMware Inc., which topped analysts’ expectations today on both revenue and profit in the third quarter and raised its financial outlook for the rest of the year. The company, which has positioned itself as a …
Informatica boosts data integration features for Snowflake data warehouse
Informatica Corp. is expanding its line of data integration and governance tools for the Snowflake Computing Inc. data warehouse with today’s launch of serverless data integration pipelines, a portal for creating customer profiles and a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools. Informatica, …