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Reporting blowout earnings, SAP says profits are now top priority
SAP SE toasted analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings on 48% growth in cloud revenue in the first quarter and raised its 2019 profit outlook, sending shares up more than 12% today. The software giant’s net profit jumped 25%, to 1.08 billion euros ($1.21 billion), over the same quarter last year. Revenues rose 16.3% ...
Quest Software adds containers to its infrastructure monitoring suite
Quest Software Inc. is extending its Foglight systems monitoring software line to support containers with real-time and historical analysis features that can be used to quickly identify problems in container implementations spread across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Foglight is an application and website monitoring platform that’s commonly used in risk assessment, diagnostics, user management ...
Reeling us in: How phishing email scams keep getting smarter
Open your preferred email client. Now hit “page down” three times. Chances are one of the messages that just scrolled past you is a phishing email, a message that’s intended to fool you into sending money to a stranger, giving up your login credentials or installing malware on your computer. Phishing emails have been around ...
Trovares reels in $2M for high-performance graph analytics engine
Trovares Inc., a property graph analytics company started by the co-founder and former chief executive of Cray Inc., has raised $2 million to launch a new graph analytics engine. The engine uses parallel processing to deliver what the company says is order-of-magnitude speed improvements compared to conventional graph databases. The Series A funding, announced Monday, brings ...
IBM beats on profits but misses on revenue, sending investors into a funk
IBM Corp. beat first-quarter net income estimates today but disappointed investors with a larger-than-expected decline in quarterly revenue, sending its stock down more than 3% in after-hours trading. The company blamed delayed decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region for the shortfall and continued to back away from talk of growth, focusing instead on profitability metrics. It ...
FEATURE
For commercial drone pilots, the sky’s the limit now
Dan Landis was a model aircraft enthusiast who cut his cut his teeth flying drones in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contractor. Desiree Ekstein was a videographer whose mother suggested a drone might give her work some new perspective. Scott Shepard was a commercial photographer who was introduced to drones by a client whose ...
JetStream combines replication, cloud storage for fast data restoration
A year and a week after emerging from stealth, data migration software developer JetStream Software Inc. is entering the data protection market with a service that backs up entire virtual machine images to on-premises infrastructure, the cloud or a combination. JetStream is aiming the service at cloud service providers and managed service providers who will ...
Looker broadens functional focus with new visualization app for sales pros
Continuing its recent campaign to expand into functional specialties, Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is rolling out an extension to its business intelligence platform targeted specifically at sales professionals. Looker for Sales Analytics joins Looker for Digital Marketing and Looker for Web Analytics, which were both introduced last October and which enter general availability this ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
As hybrids flower, a new era dawns in cloud computing
For Kenny Mullican, the decision about whether to use a hybrid cloud was once cut-and-dried. “It was a binary choice between your own servers and going with a public cloud,” said the chief information officer at Paragon Films Inc. Fear of losing control over mission-critical systems is one reason the company, which makes stretch films ...
MapR separates Kubernetes storage and compute to boost container flexibility
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up its efforts to hasten its customers’ moves to software containers with a new set of features in its MapR Data Platform that separates computing from storage. MapR described the enhancements, announced today, as deep integrations with the core components of Kubernetes, which is the open-source software that orchestrates applications running in ...
