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VMware binds management features into its cloud migration platform
VMware Inc. is putting more meat on the bones of its Cloud Foundation integrated hybrid cloud platform. A new 2.3 version announced today folds in cloud management capabilities that were previously available only as separate add-on components. It also provides for management and provisioning of compute, network, storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments. Cloud ...
IBM targets deep learning AI with its first Power9-based systems
Nearly 20 months after revealing its plans to develop a new version of its Power series of processors, IBM Corp. today is rolling out its first machines based upon the new chip, saying they’re the best you can get for compute-intensive artificial intelligence workloads. The new Linux-based AC922 Power Systems can speed up the training ...
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Graph databases are hot, but can they break relational’s grip?
Comcast Corp. is working on ways to better understand its customers’ families. The company plans to roll out features that enable parents to manage the devices their children use at a fine level of granularity. For example, account holders will be able to pause internet access at dinner time or know precisely when their kids ...
VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership pays on-premises dividends
Between its struggles to build a public cloud presence and the perceived threat of containers to its virtualization empire, a lot of people have an waiting for VMware Inc. to hit a wall for the last couple of years. They’re going to have to wait a little longer. The virtualization giant today beat revenue and profit forecasts in its ...
New CEO? No problem. Pure Storage beats forecasts and sees $1B in 2018 revenue
Pure Storage Inc. didn’t miss a beat in its transition to a new chief executive, beating Wall Street earnings estimates and forecasting that it will turn a profit next quarter and become a $1 billion company next year. Three months after closing out a strong quarter by shifting Chief Executive Scott Dietzen out of an operational role ...
VMware and AWS tighten partnership to make cloud migration simpler
Longtime rivals VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are looking even chummier these days as the companies expand their landmark partnership announced last year to make it easier for VMware customers to move their workloads easily to the Amazon cloud. Today at the AWS re:Invent conference running this week in Las Vegas, the companies announced a new ...
Cloudera rolls first application of its shared-data platform into beta test
Cloudera Inc. is rolling out the first application built on top of the Altus platform as a service it introduced in May. Cloudera Altus Analytic DB, which will soon enter beta test, is a cloud-based data warehouse designed for self-service use that works on a shared foundation of data, catalog and directory services to eliminate ...
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How big data made the ‘Paradise Papers’ revelations real
When more than 13 million secret documents detailing the offshore activities of some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations fall into a journalist’s lap, it presents an exciting dilemma. The data is potentially explosive, but how do you even extract the information tied up in millions of PDF files and emails, much less ...
HPE announces CEO Meg Whitman will step down, Antonio Neri will take over
Following yet another disappointing quarter, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that Chief Executive Meg Whitman will step down Feb. 1. The departure overshadowed mixed results for HPE’s fiscal fourth quarter and a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. Investors punished the shares, which fell nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading. Antonio Neri, who was named ...
MapR unifies data streams, ratchets up security in new platform release
MapR Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new version of its flagship Converged Data Platform, with a focus on DataOps, a variation on the DevOps rapid application development process that focuses on reducing time and improving the quality of results in data analytics projects. The 6.0 release folds in automatic platform health and security features ...
