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Hortonworks Inc. today beat analysts’ estimates on both revenue and profit in its third quarter, providing further evidence that its pure-play open source business model is gaining traction. The company also raised revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and the year. Investors chose …
Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB
MariaDB Corp., the most recent company to make a case for a profitable open-source business model, today announced a vote of confidence in the form of a $27 million investment led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Also participating were existing investors Intel Capital …
Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks
The internet was never designed to be secure, a fact that has given information technology organizations fits for more than 20 years. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol behind the internet assumes a high level of trust for devices that are on an …
Application container-friendly Pentaho 8 gets native Kafka support
The Hitachi Vantara subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has added support for Apache Kafka streaming data in version 8 of its Pentaho data integration and analytics software. The move, announced on Oct. 26, extends the company’s embrace of the open-source ecosystem building around Apache Spark and its …
ServiceNow beats forecasts, but slowing growth rate unsettles investors
ServiceNow Inc. beat forecasts on quarterly revenue and profit, but a weaker-than-expected forecast for subscription revenues spooked investors, who knocked the stock back about 4 percent in after-hours trading. The maker of cloud-based workflow automation and service management software maintained its historically …
Segment enables marketers to target audiences of one
Data segmentation and analytics firm Segment.io Inc. is giving its customers the ability to synthesize large amounts of customer data into individual profiles that can be used for personalization. The feature, called Personas, establishes a central record of an organization’s entire relationship …
AMD beats earnings forecasts, but stock plunges on light outlook
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates on revenue and profit in the third quarter, but investors were clearly hoping the good times would continue in the new quarter, as they knocked the chip maker’s stock back nearly 11 percent …
Cloud automation provider HashiCorp boosts war chest with $40M funding
HashiCorp Inc.’s ability to raise cash is growing. A little more than a year after banking $24 million in funding, the infrastructure automation provider today said that it has raised a $40 million series C round from existing investors, bringing its total …
In a bid to make graph databases more accessible, Neo4j gets a revamp
Bidding to keep its market-leading graph database engine out in front against new competition, Neo Technology Inc. today is unveiling an integration and visualization layer on top of its platform that adds analytics, data import/transformation, visualization and data discovery to its core …
Cray and Microsoft will deliver supercomputer power from Azure data centers
Seeking to expand the universe of potential customers for its supercomputers beyond government labs and academic institutions, Cray Inc. today said it has struck an exclusive deal with Microsoft Corp. that will provide dedicated Cray systems in Microsoft Azure data centers. Supercomputers are …