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This Week in the Cloud: Investments, Expansion and a Record-Breaking Court Battle
This past week in the cloud has seen quite a bit of action, and from more aspects than one. That includes a product launch by a company who is fresh out of a merger, and already managed to launch 2 products (and update one.) CouchBase, a NoSQL database company formed by the merger of CouchOne ...
Cloud Storage Companies Profit as Market Surges
The Bradford Report announced a new study today that provides analysis on two of the biggest players in cloud storage: Brocade Communications and NetApp. The report looks into the outlook of this industry, which isn’t all too bad, according to Bradford, and some of the polices we’ve seen in this space when it comes to ...
Big Data for Health, Library Apps: More Opportunities for Developers
Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services announced its “Apps for Science” challenge today. The competition is calling out to developers from the U.S, U.K, Australia, Germany, India, Japan and the Netherlands to develop applications that “enhance information search and discovery for researchers,” and are built for Elsevier’s SciVerse platform, ...
Buddy Media Making Use of Big Data Analytics, Optimizes your Facebook Posts
Business Intelligence offerings are evolving as the big data trend is picking up momentum, and it’s already expanded to just about every corner of the tech industry. This week, Facebook management system Buddy Media released the “Strategies For Effective Facebook Wall Posts: A Statistical Review” study. The research paper aggregated and analyzed data collected from ...
Dell: How Many Datacenters you can Buy with $1Billion?
Electronics giant Dell announced it has plans to invest more than $1 billion in new datacenters offering cloud services, as well as other offerings, to its customers. Going down the same path Hewlett-Packard is following under CEO Leo Apotheker, Dell has just reached the first milestone towards its expansion beyond just the comparatively low margin ...
Top-Level Changes at Microsoft, Cisco. New Marketing, New Mantra.
Longtime Microsoft marketing head Mich Mathews left his office just 6 days ago, and Microsoft has already found a replacement. Twenty-year Microsoft veteran Chris Capossela has been promoted to senior vice president of the Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group, and will report to COO Kevin Turner. “Capossela is a 20-year Microsoft veteran who previously ...
LivingSocial, Twitter Beef Up Marketing and Monetization
This week we saw a couple of the biggest players in social media with some very big news, starting with LivingSocial. The number two daily deals service behind Groupon, LivingSocial is currently operating in 206 markets and employs more than 1,300. The company expects to expand to 400 markets this year, and the whopping $400 ...
The Big Data Revolution Takes on Consumer Products
The big data revolution is taking on the enterprise space with near real-time infrastructure insight, extremely accurate marketing analytics and more. However, it turns out consumer products are not too far behind – and your shoes just got a whole lot smarter. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to the former CEO of IBM’s ...
Zenoss Heads to Sea with 25-Year Research Project
Physical, virtual and cloud management solutions vendor Zenoss announced that its Zenoss Enterprise offering has been selected to be the observatory management system of the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN). RSN is a component of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Project, and a 25-year research project in or exploration and scientific discovery in ...
Business Intelligence Gets Big Data Boost from SAP Ventures
Geographical business intelligence solutions provider Aletryx announced it has raised $6 million in funding from SAP Ventures Fund I. The investment will be used to accelerate Aletryx growth, expand go-to-market executions and support potential acquisitions. “Alteryx is going to be a significant player in the sea-change occurring in Business Intelligence (BI) and SAP Ventures is ...
