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AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration
AtScale Inc., developer of a business intelligence abstraction platform that reduces or eliminates the the need for data extract/transform/load procedures, Wednesday updated its core software. The update includes the addition of native multidimensional support for Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI, improved integration with Teradata Corp. and PostgreSQL data warehouses, a software development kit for data platform ...
Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates
Salesforce.com Inc. calmed investor concerns about slowing growth with solid fiscal first-quarter financial performance that eclipsed Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company slightly lowered second-quarter earnings estimates but raised its full-year outlook to earnings of between $2.88 and $2.90 on revenue of between $16.1 billion and $16.25 billion for the year. ...
VMware CTO sees one unified platform anchoring customers’ multicloud plans
A lot of VMware Inc.’s customers view it as what it was in the past: a company that “virtualizes” hardware to make data centers more flexible and efficient. Kit Colbert, chief technology officer of VMware’s cloud platform business unit, is here to tell them the company isn’t living in the past. “It’s important to understand ...
VMware posts strong results, but investors wanted more
Updated: VMware Inc. beat Wall Street estimates on both revenues and earnings in the first quarter, but the results weren’t quite the blowout investors have come to expect recently — and they responded with a light knuckle-wrap, sending shares down more than 3% in after-hours trading. There was little to suggest that anything is amiss ...
Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. The company, which raised a total of $280 million in financing since it was founded ...
JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery software
JetStream Software Inc. today said it secured new early-stage funding of $7.7 million for its data protection technology aimed at managed service and cloud service providers. The company had raised $3.8 million in an unannounced seed funding round early last year. JetStream President Richard Petersen said the company will use the funding to invest in sales, ...
Dialpad gives sales reps real-time call transcription and coaching
Dialpad Inc., developer of business messaging and conferencing systems based on the voice over internet protocol, is deepening its push into the sales force automation market. The latest fruit of the effort is today’s announcement of Dialpad Sell, a cloud service that uses voice recognition and machine learning to transcribe sales calls, interpret customer sentiment, ...
Momentary blip or strike two? Pure Storage earnings miss again
Pure Storage Inc. missed expectations on earnings and revenues for the second straight quarter today, sending its stock plunging more than 18% in after-hours trading. The decline continued after the opening bell on Wednesday, with PSTG down 22% at mid-day. The company said it continues to grow at double the industry average rate, but investments ...
Stratoscale furthers its drive toward a multicloud hybrid platform
Continuing its evolution from a provider of hyperconverged software into the developer of a full private cloud software stack, Stratoscale Ltd. today introduced a new version of its namesake offering. Version 5 adds new identity management services along with support for message buses, domain name services, improved monitoring and database replication. It also adds improved services for ...
Datastax previews cloud-native version of its Cassandra-based database
DataStax Inc. will kick off its new user conference today by introducing a cloud-native version of its Apache Cassandra-based NoSQL database management system, along with a set of services to enable users to get started rapidly developing applications in the cloud. DataStax Constellation is the foundation for what Chief Executive Billy Bosworth said will eventually be ...
