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Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app
Data integration company Talend SA is quickening its march to the cloud with a free application for use in Amazon Web Services Inc. environments. Talend Data Streams is intended to simplify and speed the ingestion of large volumes of real-time data on a self-service basis. Available in the Amazon Marketplace now, it will become part of a suite ...
IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support
IBM Corp. is expanding its commitment to move large swaths of its software portfolio to application containers while tightening its relationship with Red Hat Inc. In an announcement to be made at Red Hat Summit Tuesday, IBM said it will extend its recently announced Cloud Private and Cloud Private for Data platforms, as well as its ...
Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors
Tableau Software Inc. today provided the strongest evidence yet that its shift from a software license model to subscription pricing is bearing fruit. Its first-quarter revenue of $224 million beat Wall Street’s estimates as well as the company’s own guidance, sending shares up nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading. Although Tableau’s net loss per share of ...
SnapLogic’s new cloud-based data integration platform will even manage the servers for you
Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is taking its platform to the cloud with an extension that nontechnical users can employ to create complex data processes. Those processes can run on cloud-based Apache Hadoop platforms such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic MapReduce, Microsoft Corp.’s HDInsight and Google Inc.’s Cloud Dataproc. SnapLogic eXtreme can be used to build integration logic that’s automatically ...
Instart Logic snags top VMware exec as CEO to push growth agenda
Instart Logic Inc., a richly funded startup that’s trying to disrupt the content delivery industry, has appointed a former top VMware Inc. executive as its chief executive. Sumit Dhawan took the reins today, promising to accelerate the company’s growth and awareness of its mission to “change the experience of how we live digitally.” Dhawan was ...
VMware outlines plan to take on-premises, remote and cloud infrastructure all virtual
VMware Inc. is using this week’s Dell Technologies World 2018 conference in Las Vegas this week to outline a vision for end-to-end networking that’s long on promise and short on specifics. The company is also cozying up to Microsoft Corp. with improved support for the Azure infrastructure-as-a-service platform, underscoring earlier statements that its partnership with ...
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Finally comfy in the cloud? Get ready for another jolt: serverless computing
Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around cloud computing, another revolutionary concept is on the way. “Serverless computing,” as it’s called, promises to deliver unprecedented improvements in speed, simplicity and cost that may upend traditional assumptions about how information technology is delivered. Even as the cloud continues to disrupt traditional tech ...
Microsoft shares hit all-time high as cloud business nearly doubles again
For those who been wondering how long Microsoft Corp. can continue the blistering growth of its cloud infrastructure business, the answer is: We still don’t know. The desktop and cloud computing giant rode 93 percent growth in its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service business to $22 billion in fiscal third-quarter revenue, up 15.5 percent over the same period ...
Dremio adds machine learning to self-service data analytics platform
Dremio Corp. is folding machine learning into its self-service data analytics platform, boosting performance and integrating with Looker Data Science Inc.’s namesake business intelligence query engine. Dremio claims to eliminate the need for time-consuming data transformation tasks needed to load information into data warehouses, multidimensional cubes and aggregation tables for business intelligence uses. Its Data ...
ServiceNow revenues soar on stronger sales to existing customers
Updated: The ServiceNow Inc. express continues to rumble along: The maker of an expanding portfolio of workflow automation software today announced first-quarter revenue and profit that easily beat Wall Street estimates. Revenue growth continued at a 40 percent pace, even as the company sailed past a $2 billion annual run rate toward a $4 billion ...
