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Syncsort picks up UK mainframe outfit Cogito to unlock big iron data
Though analytics technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, many traditional organizations still rely on mainframes for their most important data processing workloads. Syncsort Inc. hopes to put itself in a better position to target this segment by acquiring Cogito Ltd., a British firm that develops software for freeing information locked in big iron deployments. The firm sells performance optimization tools ...
Google’s new IntelliJ plugin helps developers deploy cloud apps more easily
Google is coming up with new and increasingly creative ways to lure developers away from rivaling cloud providers. As part of its efforts, the company has launched a plugin for JetBrain s.r.o’s popular IntelliJ IDEA that provides the ability to push code to its hosted platform-as-a-service environment directly through the native interface. The offering appears ...
GitLab takes on Atlassian and GitHub with a new visual issue tracking board
Managing application projects is about to become much easier for GitLab Inc. users. The startup today introduced an issue tracking feature for its fast-growing code hosting platform that promises to help development teams organize the features, enhancements and other items on their to-do lists more effectively. The GitLab Issue Board is a sleek graphical panel ...
Bessemer leads $29M investment into email security provider Virtu
While popular email services such as Gmail and Outlook aren’t likely to suffer a large-scale data breach, individual inboxes can still be compromised in a myriad of other ways that present just as big of a threat. To mitigate that risk, a fast-growing startup, Virtu Inc., raised $29 million today from a group of top investors ...
Microsoft buys scheduling AI startup Genee
A week after Salesforce.com Inc. revamped the calendar in its email extension to help users manage their meetings more easily, Microsoft is moving into the scheduling automation space as well. The company today acquired a startup called Genee Inc. that has developed a chatbot for making business appointments. Although Microsoft plans to shut down the ...
What you missed in Big Data: Bringing analytics to the corporate masses
Vendors are investing heavily to address the growing demand for analytics functionality in the enterprise. As part of this push, Salesforce.com Inc. last week acquired a startup called BeyondCore Inc. that specializes in extracting meaning from large databases with upwards of millions of records. Its namesake business intelligence platform works by mapping out the mathematical ...
What you missed in Cloud: Hosted Databases and chatbots
As enterprises continue to move more workloads and data outside the firewall, cloud providers are stepping up their efforts to monetize the trend. Google set the pace last week by launching a speedy new iteration of its managed relational store that promises to provide seven times better performance than its successor. The web giant also ...
Amazon Workspaces can now accommodate road warriors and part-time employees
In the fiercely competitive cloud market, introducing new functionality and price cuts on a regular basis is a requisite to staying on top of the market. Amazon Inc. ticked the box this week by adding a new billing option to its Workspaces virtual desktop service that allows organizations to rent instances by the hour. While ...
Report: Google has quietly acquired mobile development startup Apportable
Following the example of Microsoft Corp. and other top rivals, Google is stepping up its efforts to court the developer community. Anonymous sources told VentureBeat yesterday that the search giant had secretly bought a startup called Apportable Inc. as part of this push sometime last year. The tipsters further claim that the transaction was an ...
Cisco’s new Meeting Server lets workers communicate across rivaling services
In parallel with its efforts to streamline operations and trim low-growth divisions, Cisco Systems Inc. is increasing its focus on areas like collaboration that present promising new revenue opportunities. As part of this effort, the company today introduced a new offering called Meeting Server that allows workers to contact one another even if they’re using communications products ...