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This Week in Cloud: How Analytics, Video and Law Firms Got Involved in it All
The past week was made particularly interesting for the cloud industry thanks to the diversity of some of the more noticeable updates we picked up. The first highlight comes from Totango, an analytics-as-a-service that caters specially to the aaS market. The concept does stand out in the crowd. For a monthly subscription cloud providers can ...
SAP-Success Factors Merger Delayed by Legislators
Business software maker SAP finalized an agreement to acquire cloud-based HR solutions provider Success Factors back in December last year. The deal and the details involved were announced towards the end of that month: SAP said it would pay $3.4 billion for Success Factors, which was then 52 percent higher than the valuation of the company based ...
Getting “Transferred” Tops the List of Reasons We Hate Customer Service: Infographic
ClickFox, a maker of analytics software that focuses specifically on customer behavior, has been releasing reports covering the various elements of its business on a fairly regular basis. The latest one is the second annual Consumer Tipping Points survey, which looks into what were the biggest CS issues for consumers in 2011 and how they ...
Piston Cloud Teams up with Three DevOps Titans
Piston Cloud is one of the biggest supports of OpenStack out there. This is mainly because the company, which was founded by some of the people who’ve contributed the most to the project, based its flagship offering on the cloud OS. Piston has added proprietary components of its own to OpenStack and now offers it ...
Revolution Analytics Finds a New CEO
Revolution Analytics, a maker of analytics software powered by the R statistical programming language, announced a major staffing change at the very core of the company’s leadership. Dr. Norman Nie will continue to serve as a director and a Senior Advisor for Products and Strategy for the new chief exec, David Rich. Rich Joins Revolution ...
Nimble Storage Backs Up Blood Bank: Case Study
Nimble Storage is evidently receiving orders from a broader spectrum of organizations. One of its customers is Florida Blood Services, a not-for-profit blood bank that assists patients in critical care. The company said that FBS replaced twelve of its old boxes for backup and recovery with only four Nimble CS240 converged storage arrays. Two of ...
Nimble Expands in EMEA with New Offices, New Exec
Nimble announced it has hired Richard Young to oversee operations and sales in Europe. As the new director of EMEA, Young will be working out of a newly opened branch in the United Kingdom. Nimble offers what it calls a new breed of CRM platforms, which fused the cloud together with a strong social element, ...
Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty in Sweden Amidst Web Copyright Drama
Even before the battle over SOPA and PIPA has reached its climax, the media industry is going after the people who are making its copyrighted property available for free online. The particularly case involving The Pirate Bay has come to end this week, and it set a rather interesting precedence for the rest of the ...
ScaleXtreme Launches New Partner Program for CSPs
ScaleXtreme, a provider of cloud management and automation tools for the enterprise, announced the latest boost to its ecosystem. The company hopes to increase the number of paid licenses it’s selling via its partners, which is why it launched the Cloud Service Provider Program. Providers that are developing cloud-based or on-premise offerings for either vCloud, Citrix CloudStack ...
Mzinga Ups the Data Ante with Teradata Team Up
According to a recently published case study, Mzinga is one of the latest Teradata customers to make use of Aster technology on a large scale. Teradata acquired Aster Data last year. Mzinga offers a solution called OmniSocial, which is meant to enable organizations to setup community sites where customers, partners and other members of its ...