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Surge in big enterprise deals drives Nutanix toward $1B in annual revenue
Investors who might have wondered whether Nutanix Inc.’s solid earnings report in its previous quarter was a one-hit wonder are breathing easier this evening. The maker of hyperconverged systems and software today said it handily beat revenue and earnings estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter on a surge in large deals. Investors bid shares up more ...
Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications
Thanks to strong growth in new and renewing customers, Workday Inc. today easily exceeded revenue estimates for the fiscal second quarter and raised guidance for the remainder of the year. But investors who have already watched shares rise more than 62 percent this year apparently wanted even more. Workday stock rose less than half a ...
Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase
Seeking to expand both its range of products and platforms, Syncsort Inc. has acquired Metron Technology, Ltd., a Taunton, U.K.-based provider of capacity management software that specializes in forecasting, modeling and planning complex systems, for an undisclosed amount. Capacity planning has become a more complex and analytics-driven discipline with the addition of new variables like ...
VMware broadens endpoint management support with Workspace ONE enhancements
VMware Inc. today said it has broadened platform support in its Workspace ONE endpoint management suite to now include Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, iOS and Android. Workspace ONE will also now integrate application programming interfaces from major endpoint platform providers to stay current with updates and new versions. Workspace ONE provides a single platform for ...
Dell EMC tightens VMware integration with new hyperconverged and data protection platforms
Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary is using the VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week to refresh its hyperconverged infrastructure lineup, with an aim to support VMware Inc. customers. It’s also adding a data protection service for customers with very large backup and recovery needs. New HCI platforms include a speedier version of the company’s ...
VMware officially lands on AWS cloud with new management and security features
Nearly a year after signing a landmark deal to bring its software-defined data center technology to the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud, VMware Inc. kicked off its VMworld conference in Las Vegas today with the news that VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available. The service essentially enables the vast majority of companies that ...
Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts
Autofill is one of the most ordinary applications most of us ever use. Every browser has a function that can automatically populate web forms. So do most password managers and dozens of plug-ins and mobile apps. So what makes the developers of Fillr think autofill could be a massive market opportunity? Simply stated, because most autofill ...
Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal
Apache Kafka has a reputation as a lightweight, fast and highly scalable message broker, which passes data between applications. But one feature has frustrated users over the five years since the platform graduated from its incubation period at LinkedIn Corp.: It was impossible to ensure that each and every message that was produced at one end ...
Splunk shares jump as it vaporizes forecasts with blowout earnings
Splunk Inc. blew past second-quarter revenue forecasts with a 32 percent jump in sales today, delighting investors who bid the operational intelligence company’s shares up 10 percent in immediate after-hours trading. Quarterly revenues of $280 million outdistanced consensus estimates by nearly 5 percent. Earnings of $11.5 million, or 8 cents per share, were 2 cents better ...
M-Files acquires Apprento to handle natural-language queries of enterprise content
Document management firm M-Files Corp. Tuesday said it has acquired Apprento Inc., a New Brunswick-based developer of a natural language query engine that works on unstructured text, for an undisclosed amount. Apprento said its analytical engine understands both the semantics and the concepts within content and communication streams, enabling it to filter through large volumes ...
