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After strong IPO, SaaS provider Coupa soars to new heights
To say that Coupa Software Inc. has received a warm welcome on Wall Street would be a major understatement. The cloud-based spend management provider, which sold shares for the first time on Wednesday night, experienced a rush of investor interest Thursday morning that sent its stock soaring as high as $41.61, up more than 200 ...
VMware sells its government cloud to QTS Realty Trust
The fierce competition in the infrastructure-as-a-service market is driving consolidation even among established vendors. VMware Inc. today sold its vCloud Government Service, the part of its hosting platform geared toward public sector customers, to data center operator QTS Realty Trust Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The move comes less than a year after rumors first ...
Akamai picks up network access startup Soha to boost security lineup
In the wake of the record-breaking botnet attack that hit one of its highest profile users last month, it’s no surprise that Akamai Technology Inc. is doubling down on security. The content delivery giant this morning picked up a Sunnyvale, CA-based startup called Soha Systems Inc. that has developed a service for regulating external access to ...
IBM will spend $200 million to kit out its Watson IoT HQ
Just 10 months after inaugurating the global headquarters of its Watson IoT business in Munich, IBM Corp. is already expanding the office’s scope of operations. The company today announced that it will invest $200 million to set up new cutting-edge labs in the facility where organizations will be able to train their staffers in making ...
Restless Bandit snags $8M to help companies find hidden gems in rejected resumes
Like all other types of data in the enterprise, resumes have a tendency to pile up. A job posting can easily attract hundreds of applications nowadays that often filed away for later in case they’re rejected. But HR departments rarely make effective use of their archived candidate records, a situation that Restless Bandit Inc. hopes ...
IBM, Carbon Black team up to patch corporate security holes
Just because an organization finds a vulnerability in its infrastructure doesn’t necessarily mean that the problem will be fixed. NASA, for instance, has more than 378,000 unpatched exploits across its employee endpoints as of August. IBM Corp. and Carbon Black Inc. today set out to relieve that situation, which is most commonly caused by shortages ...
AMD challenges Intel with Bristol Ridge Pro chips for business PCs
Even if workers are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to be productive, there’s still plenty demand for business PCs that can handle more advanced tasks — most powered by Intel Corp. chips. Now, the chip giant can expect serious competition. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched the newest iteration of its enterprise-oriented PRO processors. The ...
Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft announces new data centers in France
Microsoft Corp. Satya Nadella (above) today revealed the next step of his company’s plan to expand its cloud computing ambitions, this time in Europe. At a press event in Dublin today, the software giant said it intends to open a set of cloud data centers in France that will provide Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 services ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop and more AI
Organizations are moving more and more of their analytics workloads to the cloud in a bid to reduce operating expenses. One of the vendors trying to capitalize on the trend is Microsoft Corp., which last week rolled out a set of major improvements to its managed Hadoop service in an effort to attract more enterprise ...
What you missed in Cloud: Google, Amazon chart global expansion
After years of trailing Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in the cloud market, Google believes that it’s time for a change of strategy. The search giant last week launched an ambitious reorganization effort that is set to see its infrastructure- and software-as-a-service portfolios move under a dedicated division along with several other related products. The ...