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Jaspersoft Offers Data-Driven Development with Foundry Integration
Many companies are jumping aboard the OpenStack bandwagon, quickening speed as of late, including its Cloud Foundry counterpart as well. The latest vendor to do so is Jaspersoft, which is looking to bring smart reporting and analytics to VMware’s open-source PaaS. Big data is a catchphrase that is associated with more and more verticals as ...
Jive’s Big on Data Analytics with a 30-Day Free Trial to Prove It
Jive Software makes cloud-based social enterprise software that’s steering itself further in the right direction thanks to a few new features that add integration and analytics on top of the existing product. This week Jive announced the availability of Try Jive, a one-month trial of its flagship offering, complete with the update features. These additions ...
IBM Expands Smarter Commerce Portfolio with Tealeaf
Big Blue is diving head first into the top three trends in the enterprise – cloud, mobile and big data. Earlier this week the company announced a string of launches that address two of these areas, and now it made an acquisition to boost the IBM analytics portfolio. The IT giant bought Tealeaf for an ...
Wipro Buys Promax to Push Big Data Services
System integrator Wipro just acquired a company called Promax Applications, according to an announcement that went out this week. Promax is an Australian services provider founded in 1989 that started off as The Professional Assignments Group, until current CEO Don Nicol bought a significant stake and renamed the company. The firm’s portfolio focuses mainly on managing trade promotion ...
HP Pitches Double Performance Increase with VMware-Virtualized 3PAR
Hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is making something called the HP Get Virtual Guarantee Program available to global customers, promising to double VM density in environments that meet all the specified criteria. To be eligible for the program a company needs to be upgrading to a 3PAR storage system with the HP 3PAR Optimization Suite, and must ...
IBM Announces PureSystem Kit/PaaS, Mobile Portfolio
Following the footsteps of rival HP, IBM unveiled the PureSystem line of so-called ‘expert integrated systems’ last month. These are hardware appliances on which users can install software-based ‘patterns of expertise’ to automate certain aspects, say a task that an understaffed IT department would not be able to handle otherwise. These machine-translated best practices are meant ...
Panorama9 Launches IT Dashboard, New Feature in the US
Panorama9 is a Danish startup that focuses on general-purpose IT solutions in the cloud. And that has been working out pretty well for the company so far. Their platform is targeting small to midsized enterprises’ IT administrative tasks, covering a pretty long list ranging from inventory management and distribution, to the more creative obligation of ...
Revision3-Discovery Deal Not Likely to Go Down
Revision3 is a veteran independent broadcasting site that shares some common ground with Hulu, with the exception that the startup produces and streams its own content. Web users are showing their appreciation with over 100 million views every month, and they’re also clicking more ads than ever – revenue increased by 53 percent in 2011, ...
Correction: Violin Memory Raises $90 Million at $850m Valuation, IPO Due Soon
{Update: According to SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, the reported numbers by AllThingsD is a bit low. SiliconANGLE has learned from sources close to the company that Violin’s latest round was actually $90 million at $850 million valuation. Violin is filling a big unmet need in flash memory for new converged infrastructure devices and networks. It’s ...
Signpost Raises $3.5M, Hires Sales VP
Signpost offers an advertising platform to small and medium businesses that resembles Google AdWords in a lot of areas, with the expectation of a fancier-looking dashboard that offers different functionality. That includes metrics with deeper location integration, or at least a bit more visualized than you would expect. There’s also some built-in CMS features such ...