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Salesforce CEO Sees Growth After Q3 Revenue Boost, Shareholders Disappointed
Cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce reported its earnings for 3Q2011 and delivered its forecast for the next quarter as well. Salesforce’s earnings have proved themselves to be a rather good indicator of the growth the “as-a-service” industry, which has seen some significant boosts lately. The company reported a net loss of 3.76 million, or 3 cents ...
Mobile Consumerism on the Rise: Infographic
A study by ClickFox provides a fairly up-to-date insight of the iPhone or Android holder’s purchasing behavior online, as well as additional details that further solidates the immense popularity smartphones have gained ever since the original iPhone was launched back in 2007. ClickFox reports that Apple is still in the lead, with iProducts accounting for ...
As-a-Service Trend Tops Off this Week’s Cloud Roundup
The as-a-service industry had a lot of updates this week, and more than one represented a milestone in the expansion of this area. This week two cloud startups raised some fresh capital. One of them is New Relic, a company that provides an application monitoring service from the cloud, and recently expanded its offering to ...
Samsung Expands Into Healthcare with Latest Buy
Electronics giant Samsung acquired ITC Nexus Holding Co Nexus for an undisclosed amount as a part of a wider-scale effort to expand into the healthcare industry. Nexus, based in San Diego, makes cardiac monitoring systems and will continue to operate out of its current headquarters once the takeover is complete. “This partnership will play a ...
Millennial Media Debuts mmStudio, Furthers Ecosystem
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media announced its latest product, the mmStudio ad creation platform. Via integration with 10 rich media vendors including Celtra, Crisp and others marketers can use the mmStudio tools, as well as a number of wireframes that are provided by Millennial, to design their own ads. “Both consumers and advertisers have ...
Dell Sees Slow Growth, Expands Portfolio
Electronics maker Dell reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter, missing analysts’ expectations and lowering its own forecast. Dell’s revenue has seen no growth at $15.4 billion, and the company lowered its expectation for this fiscal year. “Dell said that given the uncertain macroeconomic environment and complexity in working through the industry-wide hard drive issue ...
SolidFire Hires Former Xiotech Exec as New Head of Sales
SSD storage systems maker SolidFire announced it has appointed Mark Glasgow as its new Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Glasgow has served in executive sales and maangment positions for 20 years, and joins the company from Xiotech where he worked as vice president of sales for the past six years. During his tenure Xiotech (now Xio), ...
Informatica Cozies Up for Cloud Winter 2012
Data integration software maker revealed Informatica Cloud Winter 2012, the latest version of its offering which will become generally available in 2012. It features several significant improvements, notably extended support and several additions to the solution. Cloud Winter 2012 features integration enhancements, including speedier outbound messaging and bulk API support for Salesforce CRM and Force.com. ...
Mark Himelstein Joins Hortonworks as VP of Engineering
Hortonworks, a Hadoop startup that was spun off from Yahoo, has hired Mark Himelstein as its new vice president of engineering. Hortonworks is amidst some rapid expansion thanks to a couple of recent initiatives, which is why this latest addition to its management team is particularly significant. “We believe that Mark’s presence will further accelerate Hortonworks’ ...
DDN Storage Fusion Gets Boost from IBM, New Offerings
Data-aware storage systems maker DataDirect Networks has expanded its big data appliance strategy with a new team-up with IBM. The Big Blue is consolidating its clustering solutions under a new name, the IBM Intelligent Cluster portfolio. Alongside the addition of new Ethernet switches, IBM is also offering DataDirect’s SFA 10K Storage Platform. “Often deployed in ...