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Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its support for Kubernetes, the orchestration manager for software containers, with a trio of new and enhanced products that it’s rolling out today at its virtual Red Hat Summit. OpenShift virtualization, which is available as a …
Paul Cormier brings an engineer’s eye to top role at Red Hat
Red Hat Inc. opens the virtual doors of its annual Red Hat Summit this week amid a major leadership shift at both the open-source giant and its parent, IBM Corp. Less than three weeks ago Arvind Krishna took over as chief executive of …
SAP meets revenue target but misses on profit as co-CEO Morgan abruptly departs
SAP SE today met revenue expectations but missed profit estimates in its first quarter and abruptly parted ways with co-Chief Executive Jennifer Morgan after less than six months on the job. The company also lowered revenue guidance for the full year to …
IBM beats earnings forecast but withdraws guidance on COVID-19 uncertainty
IBM Corp. reported first-quarter earnings that beat consensus revenue on earnings that were in line with expectations, indicating that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has not hit tech firms’ bottom lines — at least not yet. However, the company also withdrew …
Tech earnings preview: Weakness looms amid pandemic, but some companies thrive
What is arguably the most unpredictable earnings season for technology companies in modern history kicks off this week as investors try to navigate the unknowable to figure out which companies will crash, hold the line and even prosper amid the COVID-19 pandemic. …
BioCatch lands $145M to build out its behavioral biometrics security platform
Tel Aviv-based behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch Ltd. said today it has raised $145 million in a Series C investment round, bringing its total funding to more than $186 million. The company, which was founded in 2011, operates a cloud service that collects …
Alkira emerges from stealth with $30M to make multicloud networking one-click simple
Alkira Inc., a company founded by a team of networking veterans and funded by blue-chip venture capitalists, is emerging from stealth mode today with a networking-as-a-service offering that it says enables cloud architects to build and deploy multicloud networks in minutes. Alkira …
Pandemic sends enterprises racing to the cloud
When the coronavirus hit eastern Canada, it was an all-hands-on-deck moment for the staff at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. Besieged by questions from nervous residents, the information technology staff scrambled to set up a virtual call center in just two days, …
HPE offers financial relief for businesses rocked by coronavirus
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s financing unit today is making some special accommodations for customers and business partners whose information technology operations are affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The company has earmarked $2 billion to lend to customers for equipment purchases or to …
VMware boosts drive to make wide-area network management as simple as public cloud
VMware Inc. is accelerating its drive to lead the growing market for software-defined wide-area networks with the release today of new versions of key components of its Virtual Cloud Network. The announcement moves the computing virtualization provider closer to its stated goal …