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Four of the tech industry’s giants will report earnings results today, hoping cloud computing will boost their fortunes. Early earnings reports for the first calendar quarter provided some signs that the cloud is helping some tech stalwarts. IBM Corp. saw its shares …
Data Expedition bring its FTP data transfer alternative to the cloud
A self-described “quiet software company” that has taken no funding while building a base of more than 200 enterprise customers over the course of 17 years is hoping to make some noise today with the launch of a version of its high-performance data transport …
Red Hat deepens Ansible, hybrid cloud support in latest release of virtualization platform
Red Hat Inc. announced availability of Red Hat Virtualization 4.1, the latest release of the company’s virtualization platform based on the kernel-based virtual machine KVM open-source standard. The software provides for centralized management of virtualized servers and workstations based on Red Hat …
Catalogic broadens copy management platform support, targets healthcare providers
Catalogic Software Inc. has added application-aware support for InterSystems Corp’s Caché and SAP SE’s HANA databases, and extended Microsoft SQL Server support to physical hosts in a new release of its ECX copy data management software Support for Caché effectively extends ECX …
SnapLogic mines its integration cloud to build AI assistant
Richly funded data integration startup SnapLogic Inc. says it’s building artificial intelligence into its cloud-based service, potentially cutting months of time off of large-scale development projects. Named Iris, after the mythical character who was the messenger of the Greek gods (pictured), the …
Few firms have coherent plans for the Industrial Internet of Things, survey finds
Over half of executives at 350 industrial companies said they expect the Industrial Internet of Things to have a significant or major impact on their industry within three years, but barely 2 percent have a clear vision for adoption or large-scale implementations underway, …
Earnings preview: Will profits get the tech market rally back on track?
Quarterly earnings season begins this coming week, and the question for technology companies is: How high is up? Despite two weeks of modestly declining share prices in April, technology shares are still up an average of 10 percent in 2017, compared with …
Cloudera sets IPO price far below earlier valuation estimates
In a move that’s likely to throw cold water on investors who have been hoping for a rally in enterprise software stocks, Cloudera Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering today that implies a market capitalization of less than …
He’s not running blind: Wearable tech will help Boston Marathon contestant reach the finish line
When he crosses the starting line of the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, blind runner Erich Manser will be accompanied by two assistants – one immediately to his left and another 800 miles away in Ohio. Manser (pictured) is the first marathon …
Study finds ‘digital business’ is still just a dream for many
For all the talk about digital transformation, it appears there’s little actual transforming going on. A new survey of 1,000 companies by The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., and underwritten by Dell EMC, finds that only about 5 percent of organizations have fully embraced all …