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IBM bets big on marketing biz with second creative agency acquisition in a week
Already the world’s largest provider of marketing services, IBM Corp.’s Interactive Experience business is about to grow bigger still. The vendor today announced that more than 300 additional workers will join its ranks in the coming months as part of the acquisition of Germany’s Aperto AG, the second independent creative agency that it’s picked up since ...
“The Beast” is the internal nickname for Cisco’s newest SAN director
The game of one-upmanship in the storage networking market reached another height today with the introduction of a new director switch from Cisco Systems Inc. that packs what is described as a record-setting 786 ports. The combined bandwidth capacity of the MDS 9781 adds up to some 48 terabits per second, enough for even the most ...
Druva puts all-in-one twist on its cloudy data protection service
The one-stop value proposition has proven itself across countless different product categories and market segments over the past few decades. Now, Druva Inc. is looking to add cloud-based data protection to the list with the addition of a new disaster recovery feature to its Phoenix service that aims to spare administrators the hassle of using ...
Microsoft wants to move its data centers underseas
More and more organizations are deploying their hardware in self-contained data center modules as part of the industry shift towards converged infrastructure. But out of all the big names on the bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. is the only one implementing the model underwater. Engineers at its research division recently concluded the 105-day sea trial of an ...
What you missed in Big Data: Separating the signal from the noise
While most of its peers in the contact center automation segment focus on helping organizations improve the quality of their support, Pindrop Inc. makes its living separating legitimate callers from potential scammers. Its software has been adopted by three of the four largest banks in the U.S. and last week marked another milestone after attracting ...
What you missed in Cloud: An extra productive week
Last week saw Amazon Inc. once again take center stage in the public cloud, though not because of a massive new price cut or feature rollout for a change. Instead, Jeff Bezos’ company reported its fourth quarter earnings, which included a record $2.41 billion in revenue generated through its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The figure represents a ...
IBM gets into the digital marketing business with first agency buy
Amid rumors that it’s preparing to lay off thousands of workers from its professional services business, IBM Corp. is bolstering the struggling division with the purchase of its first digital marketing outfit. Resource/Ammirati Inc. was up until the acquisition one of the biggest independent agencies in the U.S., with more than 300 workers across three locations. The ...
Office Online now lets users collaborate across file lockers
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella’s ongoing effort to open up his company’s products to the broader technology ecosystem is starting to pay dividends for users. Office Online this week received new integrations that make it possible to collaborate in real-time on documents kept inside Box, Dropbox and several other third party alternatives to Redmond’s own OneDrive. ...
BloomReach gets $56M to personalize the online buying experience
For BloomReach Inc., the 64 percent decrease in venture investments that the online marketing segment witnessed between 2014 and 2015 is little more than just another industry statistic. The sales optimization provider this morning announced the completion of a hefty $56 million funding round that will help maintain its growth amid the slowdown that the ...
World’s top carriers line up behind Facebook’s open hardware initiative
Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG are among the six leading carriers that joined the Open Compute Project this week in a bid to extend its mission of improving data center efficiency to the telecommunications sector. Their work will be coordinated under the umbrella of a dedicated sub-program with the dual objective ...