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A confident VMware beats earnings estimates and raises 2019 forecast
Updated: VMware Inc.’s transition away from a seller of commodity data center infrastructure to a well-rounded solution provider continues apace judging by another strong earnings report today. Third-quarter earnings of $1.56 per share came in a nickel better than consensus estimates and up 26 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Revenues rose 13.5 percent, ...
OpenLegacy raises $30M for technology to refresh legacy applications with microservices
The investment environment for all things related to application program interfaces remains hot. OpenLegacy Inc., a maker of microservices-based API integration tools that are primarily intended for use with legacy enterprise applications, Wednesday said it has closed a funding round of $30 million. The Jerusalem-based startup helps organizations give new life to older applications by ...
Salesforce.com silences doubters with another blowout quarter
Offering evidence that worries about slowing growth that emerged following its previous quarterly earnings report were just that — worries — Salesforce.com Inc. ripped off another strong quarter today and raised its revenue forecast for fiscal 2020 to $16 billion. Fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings for the customer relationship management software maker of 61 cents a share ...
AWS, Accenture expand partnership with business-focused cloud services
Accenture Plc and Amazon Web Services Inc. are deepening their business partnership with an expanded menu of services announced today at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The services, which range from cloud migration to blockchain deployment, are provided by Accenture’s AWS Business Group. That practice, launched three years ago, now employs 2,100 certified AWS ...
Okera brings intelligent schema management to S3 data lakes
Okera Inc., a startup founded by two former Cloudera Inc. executives to simplify the management of large heterogeneous data stores at scale, today is introducing a schema management tool designed to make it easier for companies to find, access and structure data from popular data analytics tools running on top of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ...
TigerGraph brings its graph database to the cloud
TigerGraph Inc. is bringing its graph database to the cloud in announcement being made today at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference. The company, which launched a little over a year ago with $31 million in funding, claims to have the world’s fastest graph analytics platform. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business
Technology giant Siemens AG hires 35,000 people each year, sorting through some 2 million applicants for positions in 120 countries in 20 languages. Search is essential to such a massive recruiting process, but language, cultural and industry differences have long been a problem in matching candidates to available positions. “I might be looking for a software ...
Sigma Computing marries spreadsheets, SQL for cloud data warehouse access
More than 750 million people worldwide use spreadsheets, and that’s why Sigma Computing Inc. thinks the familiar row-and-column metaphor is a good way to work with data warehouses as well. The company recently introduced an analytics tool that provides live access to data in popular cloud data warehouses from Snowflake Computing Inc., Google LLC and Amazon Web ...
BlackBerry furthers IoT push with $1.4B acquisition of security firm Cylance
Continuing its pivot away from its traditional smartphone market and into cybersecurity, BlackBerry Ltd. announced its biggest acquisition ever this morning, picking up security firm Cylance Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash. Cylance, which focuses on manufacturing and “internet of things” applications, will operate as an independent business unit. But BlackBerry said it will quickly ...
IBM, ServiceNow team up to expedite customers’ multicloud migrations
IBM Corp. is stepping up its pitch to be the preferred multicloud manager for enterprise businesses. The computer and services giant today announced a partnership with workflow automation and service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. and enhancements to its Cloud Migration Factory. Like most IBM partnership announcements, few details were provided. IBM said only that ...
