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Bonitasoft CEO on the State of BPM
Bonitasoft, a maker of an open-source business process management engine, is taking a unique approach with its offering by providing simplicity, among other things. It has also adopted the solution to the more significant trends in corporate IT today. Co-founder and CEO Miguel Valdés Faura shared his take of the market for BPM software in ...
IPO Fever Takes Hold of Workday
Enterprise HR and payroll management SaaS provider Workday is the latest to get caught up in the IPO frenzy. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that the company has plans to raise $500 million in a public offering scheduled for next year. “The company would file its plan in the first half and make its debut ...
Akamai Snatches up Another Competitor, Cotendo, for $268 Million
Akamai has acquired Israeli content delivery network operator Cotendo for $268 million, in addition to the assumption of unvested options. The sum falls short of earlier reports predicting a price tag ranging between $300 million and $350 million. Cotendo leverages a network of 30 data centers to be able to stream content to a user ...
Cloudability Raises $1.1M to Trim the Cloud Fat
Cloudability received $1.1 million in seed funding from Trinity Ventures and Walden VC, among other investors. A local group of Portland angel investors also chipped in with another $255,000. The startup brings the economics of the cloud full circle from the user side: it addresses the fact that while as-a-service solutions are much cheaper than ...
IBM Faces Oracle’s Grudges, Grows in Banking, Healthcare Markets
IBM had a few noteworthy updates in the past few days. The first one comes not from IBM, but rather from Oracle. Oracle reported its earnings for the second quarter yesterday, disappointing investors and raising concerns that its lower software sales may be an early indicator of a decline in short-term IT spending. That had ...
Wikibon’s Networking Predictions for 2012: Protocols, Key Influencers
Wikibon published a report about the outlook of Ethernet and Fibre Channel in 2012, highlighting the main trends likely to drive the market throughout next year. Adoption of server 10GbE may speed up, thanks to Intel’s upcoming Romley chip, according to some experts who believe it may rise to as much as 50 percent. This ...
Intel’s Big Mobile Plans at CES: New Phone Design
Intel has been lagging in the mobile space lately. In contrast to its position in the server and PC markets, the company has an almost negligible share in the handset and tablet industries, though it has been planning to improve that for the last couple of years. The chipmaker is going to make a big ...
Yahoo’s Tax-Free Shares Sale May Haul in $18 Billion
Yahoo! is looking to generate some extra cash from its assets in Asia, specifically a part of its 40 percent stake of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, and its entire 35 percent portion of Yahoo! Japan. The news has not yet been confirmed, but this move makes sense – Yahoo’s ad business is staggering behind ...
SAP Integrates with Google, Releases Cloud Case Study
SAP and Google are embarking on an extensive partnership that will focus mainly on the integration of the former’s subscription-based Business ByDesign ERP suite with Google Apps. A pilot is set to launch in the third quarter of 2012, intitally available only to customers in the U.S, UK and France. Bernd-Uwe Pagel, senior vice president ...
Insider Leak Reveals Dell’s Plans around Force10, Networking
Brad Hedlund, a former Cisco employee who’s currently working with the now Dell-owned Force10, suggested in a blog comment that Dell is becoming ambitious in the networking space. In the post picked up by Business Insider, Hedlund said that the objective is to undercut Cisco’s prices on networking gear and offer the cheaper Force10 products. ...