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Podium Data takes its data lake catalog to the cloud
With the new 3.2 release of its Data Marketplace, Podium Data Inc. is taking its first steps outside the on-premises world and bringing self-service big data to the cloud. The Data Marketplace is essentially a data catalog for use with data lakes that eliminates the need for the extensive extraction and massaging procedures that characterize pure-Hadoop models. ...
Survey finds executives are sharply divided on the impact of automation
Will robots, artificial intelligence and other smart technology drive new highs in business productivity? Or will it steal jobs from human beings by the millions? It turns out the consensus is yes. Or at least that’s what business executives think. A new survey of 3,800 of them from around the world, conducted by Dell Technologies ...
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PC running slowly? You may be a node in a vast cryptomining network
That open tab in the background of the browser you’re looking at right now could be slowing your computer to a crawl. If you’re reading on a smartphone, it could even fry your device. Cryptomining is the hottest thing in cybercrime right now, and many victims don’t even know they’ve been affected. Cryptomining software hijacks ...
Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance
Hortonworks Inc. today brushed up its Hortonworks DataFlow streaming analytics platform with improved support for complex processes and the ability to share and publish data flows directly to production. HDF is an open-source toolset that combines governance, security and management for applications involving real-time processing. It combines multiple open-source projects, including the Apache NiFi integrated data logistics ...
Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again
The $6.3 billion quarterly loss that Microsoft Corp. announced today briefly spooked investors, who sent shares down nearly 3 percent in immediate after-hours trading, but concerns quickly eased on assurances that the loss was thanks to a onetime $13 billion charge triggered by the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Excluding that, the company beat ...
Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta
Data transformation startup Trifacta Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new financing from a group that includes several customers. The seven-year-old firm, which bills itself as a provider of tools for “data wrangling,” or wrestling messy data into usable form, has raised a total of $124 million. The funds will be used for ...
Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud
SAP SE met revenue and profit expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter but saw a continued slowdown in growth in both cloud subscriptions and overall revenue. Shortly before releasing its results this morning, the enterprise resource planning giant also announced plans to acquire Callidus Software Inc., a maker of cloud-based sales force management software. Fourth-quarter revenue ...
Western Digital beats street but stock falls on growth concerns
Western Digital Corp. easily topped analysts’ revenue and profit estimates for its fiscal second quarter today, and it even raised guidance for the current quarter and full year thanks to strong demand spurred by data center growth. But it wasn’t enough for shareholders, who clearly expected a better growth story from the giant maker of ...
Dell enterprise group shakeup aimed at boosting sagging storage sales
Dell Technologies Inc. is shaking up its Infrastructure Solutions Group with a series of organizational changes that boost the influence of Dell veterans at the expense of executives who came over with the computer giant’s 2016 acquisition of EMC Corp. Just four months after former ISG president David Goulden, a former top EMC executive, stepped down in favor ...
Ransomware attacks decline as cybercriminals turn their attention to cryptomining
First the good news: Ransomware attacks are on the decline. But there’s plenty of bad news as well. The volume of malware that security researchers are finding in the wild has risen dramatically. Cybercriminals are targeting cryptocurrency wallets and hijacking computers to mine bitcoin. Some old favorite malware types, such as banking Trojan viruses, are ...
