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Teradata revenues plunge, but brightened outlook cheers investors
Teradata Corp., the company that helped to invent big data, is continuing to struggle to come to terms with big data’s success. The data warehousing vendor today reported a steep drop in revenue, to $513 million in the second quarter, down 9 percent from adjusted revenues of $564 million a year ago and 14 percent from ...
AMD pleases investors with earnings upside thanks to strength in data center chips
Buoyed by the success of its Ryzen line of Intel Corp. x86-compatible processors and initial favorable reviews of its new Epyc line of chips for the data center, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. knocked its second-quarter results out of the park. Results topped analysts’ expectations on revenue and profit, and AMD raised its outlook for full-year revenue growth. That ...
Looker and Segment hook up to improve marketing automation performance
Data segmentation and analytics firm Segment.io Inc. has joined forces with rising business intelligence star Looker Data Sciences Inc. on a technology integration that enables Looker users to pipe the results of their analysis into Segment’s data pipeline for purposes such as targeted marketing. The deal unites two of the hottest companies in the data ...
Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high
Microsoft Corp. crushed analysts’ estimates for sales and earnings in the quarter ended June 30, providing further evidence that it has successfully turned the corner from packaged-software company into cloud services provider. Investors rejoiced, sending the company’s shares to an all-time high of more than $76 in after-hours trading. After languishing for years, Microsoft shares ...
Prey’s device recovery software gets improved enterprise features
Prey Inc., maker of a freemium software suite for tracking and monitoring mobile devices to prevent theft, announced a new version of its enterprise offering with improved anti-theft and multi-device management capabilities. The improved geofencing and file retrieval capabilities help secure devices before they can be lost or stolen. Advanced search, labeling and large-scale management ...
SAP raises outlook on strong growth in cloud, business software sales
Strong sales of cloud services and even stronger sales of a next-generation business software suite lifted German software giant SAP SE’s second-quarter earnings released early this morning. “We have never been better positioned,” SAP Chief Executive Bill McDermott (pictured) said on this morning’s conference call, and if that’s usually a boilerplate quote, the enterprise resource ...
Workato raises $10M to simplify application integration
Self-service data integration vendor Workato Inc. has raised $10 million in early-stage financing and released a major update to its Workato Turing platform. The new Series A funding round, announced Tuesday, was led by Storm Ventures LLC with additional investment from Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures and brings the company’s total funding to $16 million. The initial investment ...
Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors
More than two years in the making – a blink of an eye in standards-setting time – the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 is ready. The standard covers runtime and image specifications for containers, which define container lifecycles and image formats, respectively. Those are considered to be the most important elements needed to ensure container consistency ...
Oracle aims to one-up Microsoft with expanded Cloud at Customer service
Oracle Corp. is wasting no time returning fire at Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week of the availability of its Azure Stack on-premises cloud offering. The database and business software giant today is expanding the breadth of services it will deliver via its similar Cloud at Customer service to include its full line of platform as a ...
Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine
After two years in stealth mode, Dremio Corp. is entering the red-hot self-service data analytics market today with an open-source platform based on the Apache Arrow distributed query engine. Dremio said it eliminates the need for cumbersome tasks and technologies such as extract/transform/load procedures, data warehouses, multi-dimensional cubes and aggregation tables, providing ease of use without ...
