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Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features
Cloudera Inc. is appealing to the hearts and minds of data scientists and data engineers with a series of new features and products intended to make them more organized and productive. The software the big-data company introduced today at the Strata conference in London include machine learning capabilities that it said make it easier for data ...
Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast
Pure Storage Inc. today beat the high end of its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter but issued guidance that appeared to disappoint growth-hungry investors. The flash storage maker’s revenue rose 40 percent, to $255.9 million, over the same quarter a year ago and slightly exceeded the high end of the guidance executives set ...
Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices
The chaos that engulfs the scene of a mass shooting is often the gunman’s best friend. First responders lose precious minutes trying to determine the location of the shooter. In the scramble to get out the doors, some people tragically run into the path of the assailant. Caught by surprise, victims may be unable to ...
LinkedIn quickens pace of Sales Navigator enhancements
Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn subsidiary is picking up the pace of enhancements to its Sales Navigator lead development and nurturing software with the second set of major enhancements in less than four months. In addition, the company today added five new vendors to the list of integration partners in its Sales Navigator Application Platform (Snap) program, which was ...
MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release
MarkLogic Corp. is strengthening data integration features, enhancing security and improving workload management capabilities via support for containers in the first major new release of its namesake NoSQL database management system since the debut of version 9.0 two years ago. The company, which claimed its NoSQL engine is as fast and scalable as relational alternatives, ...
As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential
Fear and loathing about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is apparently giving way to cautious optimism as organizations prepare for the new laws to take effect a week from Friday. A new IBM Corp. survey released today finds that executive opinions toward the new privacy regulations are now broadly positive, even though the majority say ...
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Surprise! Converged systems are now cheaper to buy and run than hand-rolled solutions
Information technology organizations should abandon their traditional “roll your own” practices in favor of converged and hyperconverged systems from a handful of providers for transaction-intensive workloads. That’s the conclusion of a new cost-of-ownership report and detailed analysis by Wikibon, a sister company of SiliconANGLE. Wikibon analyst David Floyer conducted rigorous financial analysis to compare the total costs of ownership ...
Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in
Investors appeared to take Talend SA’s narrow earnings miss Thursday uncharacteristically hard, but it turns out the reason had little to do with its earnings report. The data integration company reported a first-quarter loss of 19 cents per share, a penny worse than consensus estimates of a loss of 18 cents. However, revenues jumped 42 ...
Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls
Updated: Hortonworks Inc. beat Wall Street expectations on both revenues and profits in its first quarter and guided expectations higher for both its current quarter and the full year. Revenue jumped 41 percent from a year ago, to $79.1 million, ahead of analysts’ average forecast of $75.3 million. An even more important milestone for investors and ...
ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights
ThoughtSpot Inc. took a big step forward in its bid to shake up the data analytics market with the closing of an oversubscribed $145 million Series D funding round announced today. The company has now raised $306 million in its bid to challenge incumbents such as Tableau Software Inc. and Qlik Inc. with a platform that ...
