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SAP-Success Factors Acquisition is Official
Today SAP announced that its tender offer for all outstanding shares of Success Factors’ common stock is closed. The merger is expected to be completed in a few days, a SAP spokeswoman told SiliconANGLE. The deal has been carried out via Saturn Expansion Corporation, an indirect subsidiary of the business software maker, and 81,673,335 shares have ...
Attivio Scores EU Contract with Europol
Business intelligence solutions maker Attivio announced that Europol has selected its Active Intelligence Engine as the offering that will power its data management and analysis operations. Europol is a law enforcement agency that tracks suspicious activity that may be related to terrorism and other international serious crimes, an area where data gathering and analytics take ...
Greenplum Tackles the Cons of Hadoop, Forrester Approves
The now EMC-owned Greenplum, maker of analytics software, is facing the same challenges as everyone else in the Hadoop ecosystem. One of the latest tidbits of commentary by TechWorld’s Chris Kanaracus sheds some new light on where the company is standing from an overall perspective, and what it is they’re doing different in an effort ...
VMware Partners with Peake for Medical Cloud
Virtualization giant VMware is getting deeper into the healthcare sector now that Peake Healthcare Innovations has OEM’d its virtualization technology to power a new public/hybrid cloud offering. It will enable doctors and hospitals treat patients much more effectively. Peake is a joint venture between Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins. Peake’s platform offers medical institutions more rapid ...
Jaspersoft OEM’s Keen on Hadoop, Add Support
Business intelligence software solutions maker Jaspersoft announced it has entered into an OEM agreement with Talend to bring Hadoop to Jaspersoft BI Suite 4.5. Specifically, Talend’s technology will be integrated into ETL, Jaspersoft’s data integration engine and a part of the company’s flagship lineup. “With Jaspersoft ETL, CIOs, data scientists, and BI Builders gain the ...
Forrester’s Richard Fichera Impressed with HP’s Gen8 [VIDEO]
Hewlett-Packard’s announcement of the ProLiant Generation 8 server has managed to trigger some ripples throughout the IT industry, invoking discussion of an equally imposing scale. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon have been following the story from the start, and already quite a few pundits have come to theCube for an opportunity to give their angle on what ...
EMC Reveals One-Stop Cloud Shop with Atos
Last month VMware launched a web-based storefront that its partners can use to showcase their offerings to prospects in a much more straight-forward and effective way. Today, storage behemoth EMC – which owns a 90 percent majority stake in VMware – also made a push to expand its sales channel, and on an entirely different ...
Broadcom’s New Spin on WiFi Revealed
Broadcom, a maker of chips designed for networking purposes, announced some additional plans it has around the new and still-in-development Wi-Fi standard currently being polished by the IEEE. The company will be offering up new chips based on the 802.11ac standard for general availability starting sometime in the second half of the year according to ...
Nimble 2.0: the Cloud More Social, User-Oriented
Nimble (not to be confused with Nimble Storage) is a SaaS company that, like a sizable percentage of tech startups, offers a whole new angle on the rather traditional CRM market. Nimble’s cloud-based platform is focused on the idea of making contact management and customer support a much more social and simplified process on both ...
Fusion-io Speeds up Cloud Gaming with Flash
Flash storage provider Fusion-io had climbed its way up in its fast-evolving industry to become one of the most prominent vendors, and has managed to expand its business across a number of different sectors. It has even made an entry into the mobile app market with FusionFace, the app that visualizes the “face warping effect ...