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Dell Technologies Inc. slipped to a loss in the second fiscal quarter of 2018 and said enterprise storage revenues undershot targets, but investors seemed largely unfazed, boosting the stock about a half-percentage point in early New York Stock Exchange trading. Consolidated revenue …
HPE posts strong earnings, but investors are still doubtful
Updated Wednesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. finally gave investors something to smile about after a string of disappointing earnings results, handily beating revenue and earnings per share targets and finally showing some year-over-year revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter. Investors rewarded …
AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’
Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play the first four moves on both sides. That makes …
Surge in big enterprise deals drives Nutanix toward $1B in annual revenue
Investors who might have wondered whether Nutanix Inc.’s solid earnings report in its previous quarter was a one-hit wonder are breathing easier this evening. The maker of hyperconverged systems and software today said it handily beat revenue and earnings estimates in its fiscal …
Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications
Thanks to strong growth in new and renewing customers, Workday Inc. today easily exceeded revenue estimates for the fiscal second quarter and raised guidance for the remainder of the year. But investors who have already watched shares rise more than 62 percent …
Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase
Seeking to expand both its range of products and platforms, Syncsort Inc. has acquired Metron Technology, Ltd., a Taunton, U.K.-based provider of capacity management software that specializes in forecasting, modeling and planning complex systems, for an undisclosed amount. Capacity planning has become …
VMware broadens endpoint management support with Workspace ONE enhancements
VMware Inc. today said it has broadened platform support in its Workspace ONE endpoint management suite to now include Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, iOS and Android. Workspace ONE will also now integrate application programming interfaces from major endpoint platform providers to stay …
Dell EMC tightens VMware integration with new hyperconverged and data protection platforms
Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary is using the VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week to refresh its hyperconverged infrastructure lineup, with an aim to support VMware Inc. customers. It’s also adding a data protection service for customers with very large …
VMware officially lands on AWS cloud with new management and security features
Nearly a year after signing a landmark deal to bring its software-defined data center technology to the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud, VMware Inc. kicked off its VMworld conference in Las Vegas today with the news that VMware Cloud on AWS is …
Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts
Autofill is one of the most ordinary applications most of us ever use. Every browser has a function that can automatically populate web forms. So do most password managers and dozens of plug-ins and mobile apps. So what makes the developers of …