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Another company has joined the smart data catalog party. Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is introducing a machine learning-driven data discovery product that it says can find and classify data across a wide range of platforms …
IBM calls its new machine learning platform ‘the reinvention of the database’
IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.” Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amounts …
Adobe shares hit a new high as subscription revenue surges
Adobe Systems Inc. once again blew the doors off analysts’ expectations, topping earnings estimates for its fiscal first quarter by nearly 10 percent. Revenue shot up 24 percent from a year ago, to $2.08 billion, also beating consensus expectations of $2.05 billion. Profit …
In latest cloud push, IBM debuts Kubernetes container platform on bare-metal servers
IBM Corp. said today it will offer the Kubernetes software container orchestration platform on bare-metal servers, becoming the first cloud infrastructure provider to make that option available. The IBM Cloud Container Service is aimed at organizations that are running data- and processor-intensive …
Cloudera founder Mike Olson: ‘We’re moving from automating processes to automating decisions’
The growing momentum of big data in the cloud has been described as a threat to Cloudera Inc., which is ironic given that the company’s original business plan was to sell big data as a cloud service. The market wasn’t ready in …
OneLogin takes cloud identity management inside the corporate firewall
OneLogin Inc. today extended its cloud-based identity management system to on-premises data centers with OneLogin Access, saying it’s the first company to provide integrated access across cloud and legacy applications in a fully integrated product. The company competes in a red-hot market to serve …
Nutanix to acquire Netsil in bid to solve container complexity conundrum
Nutanix Inc. is continuing to expand beyond its roots in hyperconverged infrastructure, which uses software to combine computing, storage and networking in one unit, with an agreement today to buy Netsil Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Netsil makes a monitoring and visualization platform for …
Dell reports solid growth despite continuing storage struggles
Despite weak storage growth, Dell Technologies Inc.’s overall business picture continued to strengthen in its fourth fiscal quarter thanks to a record year for its servers and networking gear. The computing and storage giant today reported revenue growth that outpaced expenses as …
AtScale’s universal business intelligence layer adds support for data lakes
AtScale Inc. today updated its business intelligence abstraction platform with support for data lakes of any size and simpler migration of analytics workloads across business intelligence tools. The company said AtScale 6.5 enables users of BI tools to share queries freely with each other, …
MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’
MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups — along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, …