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Western Digital Corp. easily topped analysts’ revenue and profit estimates for its fiscal second quarter today, and it even raised guidance for the current quarter and full year thanks to strong demand spurred by data center growth. But it wasn’t enough for …
Dell enterprise group shakeup aimed at boosting sagging storage sales
Dell Technologies Inc. is shaking up its Infrastructure Solutions Group with a series of organizational changes that boost the influence of Dell veterans at the expense of executives who came over with the computer giant’s 2016 acquisition of EMC Corp. Just four months …
Ransomware attacks decline as cybercriminals turn their attention to cryptomining
First the good news: Ransomware attacks are on the decline. But there’s plenty of bad news as well. The volume of malware that security researchers are finding in the wild has risen dramatically. Cybercriminals are targeting cryptocurrency wallets and hijacking computers to …
Apache Arrow-based self-service analytics startup Dremio hauls in $25M
Self-service data analytics startup Dremio Corp. today said it has closed a $25 million funding round to build and market the Apache Arrow-based platform that the company says can democratize access to big-data repositories. The Series B round brings Dremio’s total funding to …
Unravel Data banks $15M to improve big data application management
Unravel Data Systems Inc., which manages application performance in big data environments, has raised $15 million in a financing led by GGV Capital. The Series B round, joined by Microsoft Ventures Inc. and Menlo Ventures, brings the total raised to $23 million. The company, which …
3D printing enables a faucet maker to imagine the impossible
Bill McKeone has designed thousands of kitchen and bath fixtures and amassed more than 625 patents over 30 years, but until recently he was frustrated in his goal to create the perfect bathroom faucet. Like many industrial designers, his creations have always …
Led by cloud and mainframe sales, IBM logs first growth in nearly six years
The streak is over. Delivering on expectations it set last October, IBM Corp. reported 4 percent revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2017, ending a five-and-a-half-year skid that had seen annual sales fall by about 15 percent over that time. The …
As earnings season kicks off, can big tech keep the good times rolling?
The first round of earnings reports by major technology providers in 2018 kicks off Thursday, with IBM Corp. expected to set the stage for what optimists hope will be another season of good tidings. There’s reason to believe they’ll be rewarded. Gartner …
There’s a much bigger issue for tech firms than Trump’s rollback of H-1B visas
The tech executives who have been decrying the Trump administration’s slowing of foreign worker visas are missing the real point: They need to rethink their entire approach to hiring and training before they worry about H-1B visa program. That’s according to one …
This company has saved insurers millions with its IoT weather analytics network
In many parts of the U.S., hailstorms are a constant threat. Hailstones can damage roofs and siding of afflicted buildings beyond repair in just a few minutes, requiring insurance companies to pay large claims. But sometimes hailstones aren’t the culprit. In Dallas recently, …