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The industry’s top cloud providers regularly release new features and services to stay ahead of the market. Last week, Amazon was revealed to be developing a new type of cloud instance called the P2 as part of its competitive efforts that will …
Salesforce.com’s new Wave apps promise to ease analytics for marketing and finance pros
One of the reasons for Salesforce.com Inc.’s continued dominance in the software-as-a-service market is that it regularly releases new products and features to keep up with customer demands. The latest addition arrived this morning in the form of two new extensions for …
Billionaire Thomas Siebel’s PaaS startup C3 IoT raises $70M
Having a well-known founder can go a long way towards helping a startup attract investors. The latest example of that is C3 IoT Inc., the platform-as-a-service provider led by Silicon Valley billionaire Thomas Siebel, which today raised $70 million in a funding …
Facebook’s new compression algorithm could be a game-changer for data storage
Compression is front and center at Facebook’s annual @Scale conference in San Jose. The social networking giant open-sourced a homegrown algorithm called Zstandard at the event today that is described as faster, more efficient and easier to use than many of the …
Contact center giant Genesys buys rival Interactive Intelligence for $1.4B
The wave of consolidation currently underway in the contact center automation space is continuing to pick up steam. Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., one of the largest players in the segment, today announced its intentions to acquire rival Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. for …
Okta aims to secure companies’ internal APIs with new identity service
The competition in the API management market is increasing rapidly as more vendors move to capitalize on the estimated 400 percent growth that the segment is expected to see by 2020. The latest entrant is Okta Inc., which is rolling out a …
Analysis: Cisco steps up Docker battle with ContainerX acquisition
Like most other incumbent data center vendors, Cisco Systems Inc. is actively working to address the growing adoption of Docker in the enterprise. The company kicked its efforts into high gear today by acquiring a low-level startup called ContainerX Inc. that has …
IPO shelved? LogRhythm raises $50M amid public offering rumors
Two months after word leaked that it’s pursuing a public offering, LogRhythm Inc. appears to have had a change of heart. The fast-rising network protection provider announced today that it’s raised $50 million from private investors in a funding round likely meant to delay …
Glint bags $27 million for its HR analytics platform
Maintaining employee morale is often much easier said than done in large organizations with upwards of thousands of people on the payroll. One of the startups working to ease the task is Glint Inc., which raised $27 million from a group of …
VMware takes its virtualization software to the cloud, again
VMware Inc. may end up becoming a force to be reckoned with in the infrastructure-as-a-service market after all, just not the way it originally planned. The computer and network virtualization company today debuted a new platform called Cloud Foundation that promises to help organizations …