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SUSE Announces Solid Q1 Earnings and Updates on Rancher Growth — Are They Becoming an Acquisition Target?

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Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced Q1 earnings from SUSE. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and NeuVector, this set of numbers goes a long way toward demonstrating proficiencies on both execution and growth. What’s ahead? SUSE’s continued growth may well make the company show up on the radar of mega-cap IT titans as they look to add growth to the mix and freshen up their approach to hybrid cloud.

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SUSE Announces Full Year ’21 Earnings and Q4 Results — Busy Year Ends in Solid Performance

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Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced Q4 and full year 2021 earnings from SUSE. With SUSE having had a busy year with the acquisitions of NeuVector and Rancher Labs, the company had a lot to digest. SUSE showed strong growth and positive signals across all areas of the business, including hyperscaler cloud adoption, and continued to demonstrate that the company’s strategic investments in marketing and sales execution are paying off.

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Splunk Q2 Highlights Progress in its Cloud Transformation

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Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provide their take on Splunk’s Q2 earnings announcement. The company is shuffling the executive deck, making strategic investments to bolster its security portfolio and also transition to a recurring revenue based on workload pricing, rather than data ingestion and seems to be executing on all fronts given the strong numbers for Q2.

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AMD Q2 2021 Earnings: The 99% Solution?

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AMD has released its Q2 2021 financial results, solidly beating consensus estimates with revenue of $3.85 billion (versus $3.62 billion expected) and earnings of $0.63 (versus $0.54 expected). This is the fourth consecutive quarter of record revenues including a 99 percent Y/Y increase from Q2 2020.