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Red Hat Shares Dive on Disappointing Guidance
Financial Performance

Red Hat Shares Dive on Disappointing Guidance

After five strong quarters where the enterprise software firm beat and raised estimates, "it came back to earth a bit," one analyst says.
By Matthew Heller | June 25, 2018
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Data Center Software: Progress Without Profits
The Cloud

Data Center Software: Progress Without Profits

A flock of startups is making cloud computing faster and more flexible, but most of them will not survive.
By Economist Staff | September 21, 2015
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Benefiting from the Disruption in Data Mining Software
The Cloud

Benefiting from the Disruption in Data Mining Software

The increasing adoption of an open-source tool is putting pressure on vendors of proprietary software to lower their prices for data-mining solutions.
By Dale Schmidt | June 18, 2014
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Heartbleed Bug Found in Corporate Networking Gear
Risk Management

Heartbleed Bug Found in Corporate Networking Gear

Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks have issued customer alerts saying that some of their routers and switches contain the OpenSSL security flaw.
By Vincent Ryan | April 10, 2014
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