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Cloudera Inc. today announced a preview of a new cloud-native machine learning platform that runs on Kubernetes, the popular orchestration platform for software containers. Containers are portable, self-contained software environments that include code and all dependencies to able applications to run reliably …
HPE revenues grow again as a shift from ‘volume to value’ pays off
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter, but blamed onetime tax charges and said actual profits rose by more than 50 percent from a year ago. The company also reported revenues and adjusted earnings per share that …
‘Critical’ Kubernetes flaw enables attackers to gain administrative control
A recently discovered flaw in the Kubernetes orchestration manager can enable any authorized user to gain administrative privileges that could be used to steal data or bring down production applications. The same vulnerability can also be exploited by unauthorized users to inject …
A confident VMware beats earnings estimates and raises 2019 forecast
Updated: VMware Inc.’s transition away from a seller of commodity data center infrastructure to a well-rounded solution provider continues apace judging by another strong earnings report today. Third-quarter earnings of $1.56 per share came in a nickel better than consensus estimates and up …
OpenLegacy raises $30M for technology to refresh legacy applications with microservices
The investment environment for all things related to application program interfaces remains hot. OpenLegacy Inc., a maker of microservices-based API integration tools that are primarily intended for use with legacy enterprise applications, Wednesday said it has closed a funding round of $30 …
Salesforce.com silences doubters with another blowout quarter
Offering evidence that worries about slowing growth that emerged following its previous quarterly earnings report were just that — worries — Salesforce.com Inc. ripped off another strong quarter today and raised its revenue forecast for fiscal 2020 to $16 billion. Fiscal third-quarter adjusted …
AWS, Accenture expand partnership with business-focused cloud services
Accenture Plc and Amazon Web Services Inc. are deepening their business partnership with an expanded menu of services announced today at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The services, which range from cloud migration to blockchain deployment, are provided by Accenture’s AWS …
Okera brings intelligent schema management to S3 data lakes
Okera Inc., a startup founded by two former Cloudera Inc. executives to simplify the management of large heterogeneous data stores at scale, today is introducing a schema management tool designed to make it easier for companies to find, access and structure data …
TigerGraph brings its graph database to the cloud
TigerGraph Inc. is bringing its graph database to the cloud in announcement being made today at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference. The company, which launched a little over a year ago with $31 million in funding, claims to have the world’s …
Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business
Technology giant Siemens AG hires 35,000 people each year, sorting through some 2 million applicants for positions in 120 countries in 20 languages. Search is essential to such a massive recruiting process, but language, cultural and industry differences have long been a …