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Dell’s new analytics pitch: It’s all about the applications
Dell Technologies Inc. is jumping into the analytics fray with a platform targeted at data scientists and analytics professionals that harmonizes data from different sources into a combined analytics and application development engine. The Analytics Insight Module is targeted at hybrid cloud environments and is aimed at addressing some of the complexity problems that cause ...
VMware adds entry-level option to mobility management platform
VMware Inc. used its European user conference to introduce a low-end version of its Workspace ONE enterprise mobility management platform and added enhanced security for Microsoft Office 365 applications, along with support for Skype for Business for users of its Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure. VMware Workspace ONE Essentials is an entry-level workspace manager for use ...
Intel beats estimates, but weak outlook knocks back shares
Intel Corp. reported third-quarter earnings that beat expectations, but investors appeared underwhelmed by the results despite Chief Executive Brian Krzanich’s characterization of the quarterly performance as “outstanding.” The chipmaker reported third-quarter revenues of $15.78 billion and earnings per share of 80 cents. Both figures beat Wall Street consensus estimates of $15.58 billion in revenue and 73 cents ...
Looker overhauls flagship business intelligence suite
Popular business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. kicks off its Join user conference today with the announcement of a complete overhaul of its flagship product that the company claims is easier to use, more extendable and works with a broader range of data sources. Looker is also announcing the Looker Blocks Directory, a collection of ...
IBM revenues fall again, but turnaround looks closer than ever
Beating analysts’ estimates on earnings-per-share and revenues in its third quarter, IBM Corp. today provided evidence that it may be turning the corner on its ongoing transformation into what it calls a “cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.” Quarterly earnings per share of $3.29 beat consensus estimates of $3.23. Revenue from continuing operations was $19.2 ...
Dell’s annual user event to underscore the power of two
When Michael Dell steps off the stage from delivering the opening keynote at Dell EMC World 2016 in Austin on Wednesday, he’ll be followed by David Goulden, the new president of Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure solutions group and formerly a top executive at EMC. That juxtaposition will carry much symbolic significance. Ever since Dell announced its takeover ...
Talon eases storage provisioning with new CloudFast release
Talon Storage Solutions Inc. today is releasing a new version of its CloudFAST distributed cloud storage platform for Microsoft Windows, featuring new options for procurement, licensing, deployment and provisioning. The company is also improving its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to enable IT organizations to better manage availability and performance using Talon’s tools as well as Microsoft’s System ...
Pentaho eases data handling process with visualization everywhere
Pentaho Corp. is giving data engineers and analysts access to the same tools as business end-users in Pentaho Business Analytics 7.0, which is launching today. The new release also features simplified deployment options, improved capabilities for handling Spark data streams and expanded Hadoop data security. The most significant improvement is that Pentaho will now make it ...
Postman attracts $7M to build API team development platform
With an average five-star rating across more than 7,000 reviews on the Google Chrome Web store, Postdot Technologies Inc. thinks it has a good thing going with Postman, a tool for building, testing and documenting application program interfaces. Now it has raised $7 million to see how much further it can go. Introduced in 2012, the ...
Live data editor highlights major new Atlassian Confluence release
Atlassian Corp. PLC is using its annual user conference to overhaul its Confluence workflow system with a new live-content feature that enables teams to collaborate on production data. Confluence is a collaboration and wiki platform oriented toward professional development teams. It enables groups to share the many planning documents, schedules, notes and comments that are ...
