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Sequoia Capital leads $15M round into marketing analytics startup Mintigo
It’s not easy being a marketer in the business-to-business world. Whereas effectively promoting a consumer product only necessities an understanding of the major demographic groups that make up a brand’s customer base, achieving the same success in the corporate world requires knowing the specific needs of every single target organization. Private equity heavyweight Sequoia Capital ...
IBM to bring Watson’s cognitive capabilities to SAP customers
IBM Corp. is turning to its partners for help with widening the adoption of Watson in the enterprise. As part of the effort, the company this morning announced an alliance with SAP SE that will see the capabilities of the cognitive computing platform made available for users of the latter’s flagship S/4HANA business software suite. The bundle includes ...
Ericsson buys hyperscale startup NodePrime to accelerate its data center push
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson AB is not the first vendor that comes to mind when thinking about the hyperscale movement, but that may change in the coming years if its push into the data center market succeeds. The company kicked its effort into high gear today with the acquisition of NodePrime Inc., a low-key ...
Oracle’s new Exadata X6 Database Machine breaks the petabyte barrier
Following closely behind announcements from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Dell Inc., Oracle Corp. today introduced an upgraded iteration of its hardware based on the latest-generation Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 chip series that was announced last month. The new Exadata X6 Database Machine can also be fitted with the eight-terabyte helium hard drives that hit the market ...
EMC debuts software-only version of its Data Domain platform
More and more storage vendors are making the functionality of their pricey proprietary systems available in a standalone software form to address the accelerating shift toward commodity equipment. EMC Corp. this morning became the latest big name to join the bandwagon by unveiling a new virtual incarnation of its Data Domain backup appliance series. DD VE, ...
DoD-backed Veriflow wants to make corporate networks as reliable as NASA’s mars rover
The reason why NASA’s Curiosity rover is able to continue roaming Mars years after hitting the surface is that the engineers back at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory spent an obscene amount of time testing its components ahead of the launch. They employed a methodology known as formal verification to mathematically confirm the craft doesn’t from ...
New Splunk release slashes machine data storage costs by up to 80 percent
As one of the fastest-growing subsets of data in the enterprise, machine-generated logs can be expensive to retain for extended periods of time, which leaves CIOs with a dilemma. They either have to foot the bill, or discard old information after a certain point and lose potentially valuable insight into their operations. Splunk Inc. wants to ...
Brocade to pay $1.5BN for Wi-Fi heavyweight Ruckus Wireless
Exactly a year to the day since its last acquisition, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is opening its coffers once again to buy Ruckus Wireless Inc., a publicly-traded provider of network access equipment. Its hardware lineup splits two main categories: Heavy-duty outdoor gear and indoor access points that let organizations provide WiFi coverage throughout their premises. ...
HPE launches new GPU-packed machines for deep learning workloads
Now that IDC estimates more than a third of organizations with high-performance computing infrastructure buy their hardware from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the vendor is moving to press its advantage with the addition of two new machines to its lineup. The first is the Apollo 6500, a beefy 4U server that can be loaded with as ...
One of Salesforce.com’s top partners is now cozying up to Microsoft
After years of only supporting Salesforce.com, cloud unicorn Apttus Inc. is integrating its popular billing automation service with Microsoft Corp.’s competing Dynamics CRM platform. The move appears to be linked to the customer relationship management giant’s $360 million purchase of rival Steelbrick Inc. a few months ago. The unexpected acquisition dramatically changed the balance of power in the ...