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In a nod to the popularity of hybrid cloud architectures, Nutanix Inc. is taking its Beam multicloud governance and management software into the data center. The San Jose, California-based company today announced that the service it debuted in May for Nutanix cloud instances …
Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine
Dremio Corp. is adding a data catalog to its self-service data analytics platform in a major release announced today. The company is also incorporating new controls for multitenant deployments, boosting end-to-end data encryption, offering options to run inside software containers and adopting Gandiva, …
Microsoft shrugs off market swoon thanks to success of its hybrid cloud strategy
Updated: Microsoft Corp. capped off a no-good awful day on Wall Street with a happy ending, reporting earnings that handily beat analyst estimates. On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 600 points and the Nasdaq skidded nearly …
An elevator maker reveals the ups and downs of digital transformation
A list of the 10 large companies that have most successfully transformed their businesses through technology published in the Harvard Business Review last year included many of the usual suspects – and one that many people probably wouldn’t even recognize. Thyssenkrupp AG, …
SAP cloud sales surge, but profit squeeze knocks back shares
Strong growth in cloud sales led SAP SE to raise its full-year revenue and profit projections for the third time this year, but third-quarter profits missed analyst estimates, prompting a selloff in its shares today. SAP stock dropped nearly 7 percent in …
IBM surprises investors with quarterly revenue decline
Wall Street threw a party today, but IBM Corp. ended up with the hangover. On a day when the Dow Jones soared more than 500 points, IBM shares fell more than 4 percent in immediate after-hours trading on fiscal second-quarter earnings results …
With fall release, Talend jumps into data cataloging and API development
Data integration company Talend SA is expanding its scope into data cataloging and application program interface development with the fall update to its Talend Data Fabric integration platform announced today. Both markets are growing quickly as organizations seek to get a better …
IBM rolls out cross-platform managers for AI, multiclouds and security
Furthering its campaign to become an agnostic integrator and management provider for outside technologies, IBM Corp. has rolled out separate frameworks for managing artificial intelligence applications, multicloud instances and collections of security products. The frameworks make extensive use of Kubernetes, the wildly …
Looker gets vertical in new version of its business intelligence platform
Looker Data Sciences Inc. today added industry- and function-specific templates along with a host of new goodies for analysts in version 6 of its namesake business intelligence platform. Compared with the overhaul Looker made a year ago, this round of enhancements is more modest, …
MarkLogic claims to do data lakes one better with cloud integration engine
MarkLogic Inc. is continuing to bulk up the data integration features it introduced last spring by combining its NoSQL database with its Data Hub and delivering the two as a service. The company claims the MarkLogic Data Hub Service is an alternative to data …