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For those who been wondering how long Microsoft Corp. can continue the blistering growth of its cloud infrastructure business, the answer is: We still don’t know. The desktop and cloud computing giant rode 93 percent growth in its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service business to …
Dremio adds machine learning to self-service data analytics platform
Dremio Corp. is folding machine learning into its self-service data analytics platform, boosting performance and integrating with Looker Data Science Inc.’s namesake business intelligence query engine. Dremio claims to eliminate the need for time-consuming data transformation tasks needed to load information into …
ServiceNow revenues soar on stronger sales to existing customers
Updated: The ServiceNow Inc. express continues to rumble along: The maker of an expanding portfolio of workflow automation software today announced first-quarter revenue and profit that easily beat Wall Street estimates. Revenue growth continued at a 40 percent pace, even as the …
IBM beats earnings forecasts but growth fails to wow investors, and its shares fall
Updated: Nearly everything about IBM Corp.’s business improved in its first quarter, but nothing took investors’ breath away. As expected, IBM logged its second consecutive quarter of revenue growth after 22 straight quarters of decline, but the growth was mostly the result …
What stock market volatility? Tech giants could turn in strong earnings next week
The tech earnings season starts in earnest Tuesday following several weeks of unusual stock market volatility that has investors on pins and needles. Their spirits can’t have been boosted by one early report: Cloudera Inc.’s April 2 bombshell announcement that it expects full-year …
The grim state of cybersecurity: It’s awful, and it’s only going to get worse
This year has witnessed the embarrassing disclosure of 119,000 documents left on an unprotected server by Fedex Corp., a similar compromise of 37 million customer records by Panera Bread Co., the theft of up to 5 million records of Saks Fifth Avenue …
Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases
Datrium Inc., which makes a scalable hyperconverged platform with built-in backup and disaster recovery features, today released version 4.0 of its DVX operating software, its third major release in less than a year. The new version supports Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters, provides …
JetStream debuts with promise of painless cross-cloud workload migration
Startup JetStream Software Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with a cross-cloud data management platform that it says enables organizations to move workloads between on-premises and cloud platforms with zero downtime and near-real-time replication. The company is targeting second-tier cloud service …
Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud
Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning projects. …
Comtrade becomes HYCU and makes migration to Nutanix platform easier
Comtrade Software Inc., which has bet its business on the Nutanix Inc. hyperconverged platform, has spun off from its corporate parent and rebranded itself with the name of its flagship data protection software. The new HYCU Inc. also announced new features that support …