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IBM beats earnings forecasts but growth fails to wow investors, and its shares fall
Updated: Nearly everything about IBM Corp.’s business improved in its first quarter, but nothing took investors’ breath away. As expected, IBM logged its second consecutive quarter of revenue growth after 22 straight quarters of decline, but the growth was mostly the result of exchange rate fluctuations. Revenue and earnings per share both beat analysts’ expectations, ...
What stock market volatility? Tech giants could turn in strong earnings next week
The tech earnings season starts in earnest Tuesday following several weeks of unusual stock market volatility that has investors on pins and needles. Their spirits can’t have been boosted by one early report: Cloudera Inc.’s April 2 bombshell announcement that it expects full-year revenues to come in about 4 percent below analysts’ estimates. In the recent ...
The grim state of cybersecurity: It’s awful, and it’s only going to get worse
This year has witnessed the embarrassing disclosure of 119,000 documents left on an unprotected server by Fedex Corp., a similar compromise of 37 million customer records by Panera Bread Co., the theft of up to 5 million records of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor customers, ransomware attacks at Boeing Co. and the City ...
Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases
Datrium Inc., which makes a scalable hyperconverged platform with built-in backup and disaster recovery features, today released version 4.0 of its DVX operating software, its third major release in less than a year. The new version supports Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters, provides for greater virtual machine fault tolerance and improves data administration and security. The ...
JetStream debuts with promise of painless cross-cloud workload migration
Startup JetStream Software Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with a cross-cloud data management platform that it says enables organizations to move workloads between on-premises and cloud platforms with zero downtime and near-real-time replication. The company is targeting second-tier cloud service providers and organizations that run large private clouds based on VMware Inc.’s virtualization. ...
Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud
Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning projects. Nvidia has been on a recent campaign to make its chips a standard ...
Comtrade becomes HYCU and makes migration to Nutanix platform easier
Comtrade Software Inc., which has bet its business on the Nutanix Inc. hyperconverged platform, has spun off from its corporate parent and rebranded itself with the name of its flagship data protection software. The new HYCU Inc. also announced new features that support Nutanix Acropolis File Services and enable data protection across both Nutanix and non-Nutanix ...
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Oracle’s victory over Google in Java copyright case may rewrite the rules of software
Oracle Corp.’s latest victory in its eight-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit against Google LLC could fundamentally rewrite the rules of software development if today’s ruling withstands a possible appeal by the search giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit earlier today said Google’s use of portions of Oracle’s Java development platform to create the ...
Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land
A survey of organizations using big data has found that only a tiny minority have achieved transformational business value, while most are still at the tire-kicking stage. The survey of 5,600 respondents at 429 companies also found that most organizations think they’re more accomplished at using big data than they really are. The study was fielded by ...
MariaDB hints at cloud plans with purchase of MammothDB analytics engine
MariaDB Corp. has acquired Sofia, Bulgaria-based enterprise analytics developer MammothDB EOOD for an undisclosed sum, saying the move will further the company’s push into the European market and enhance its new analytics database with advanced features and cloud delivery. The purchase is primarily aimed at burnishing MariaDB AX, an analytics and data warehousing engine that the company ...
