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Tableau acquires German database startup to enable real-time visualization
It’s always an exciting sign of things to come when a big-name vendor rushes to buy a promising new startup before its technology even has a chance to hit the market. EMC Corp.’s purchase of DSSD Inc. two years ago resulted in the development of the world’s fastest flash array, and now Tableau Software Inc. ...
HPE debuts “highest-performing” converged flash array on the market
The enterprise storage market appears to be witnessing yet another round of vendor one-upmanship, this time on the performance front. Less than two weeks after EMC Corp. pulled back the curtains on an all-flash system described as the fastest of its kind on the market, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is introducing a platform that claims the same ...
Salesforce and Microsoft try to mend rocky relationship with Outlook integration
It’s shaping up to be an exciting week for Salesforce.com Inc. users. Three days after introducing new security functionality designed to combat data theft, the customer relationship management giant is integrating its popular inbox add-on with Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook. The move appears to mark a thaw in the up-and-down relationship between the two technology giants. Salesforce.com ...
Plexxi wants to bring the network into sync with the rest of the data center
The centralized manner in which a software-defined network can be managed makes it much faster to perform configuration changes than traditional setups that require every affected piece of hardware to be updated individually. But the task often still necessitates a great deal of manual tinkering, which can lead to delays that have the potential to ...
IBM opens its first cloud data center in Africa
African organizations that rely on IBM Corp.’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform will no longer have to keep their applications in another continent from now on. The vendor is inaugurating a new data center in Johannesburg today that aims to address the growing infrastructure demands of the region’s budding private sector. The market for cloud services in South ...
Watch out, Slack! Cisco launches $150M fund to boost rivaling collab service
Cisco Systems Inc. may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of enterprise collaboration software, but it’s starting to make big waves in the segment. The technology giant this morning launched a $150 million program designed to encourage the development of third party functionality for its Spark communications platform. The move is ...
HPE intros dense new storage server for hyperscale giants
Like the traditional enterprise crowd, the world’s largest data center operators are consolidating the historically disparate components of their infrastructure in an effort to save space and simplify management. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving to capitalize on the trend this morning with the launch of a new hyperscale storage server that can pack as much ...
Report: IBM looking to offshore as much as 80 percent of services biz
The latest round of layoffs at IBM Corp.’s professional services business may be shaping up to be much smaller than it could have been, but the long-term outlook for employees is still bleak. The Register this morning leaked the contents of what is described as a confidential letter in which the company’s management discloses plans ...
Salesforce.com adds new security functionality to safeguard customer data
Achieving a balance between security and convenience in a mission-critical business application was difficult even before employees started using their mobile devices to take work outside the office. Salesforce.com Inc. wants to ease the task for the providers and large enterprises that run custom services on its CRM service with a new authorization mechanism that is rolling this morning ...
What you missed in Big Data: Ensuring transparency
For all the hype, even the most sophisticated machine learning algorithm still can’t fully match a human’s decision-making capability, a fact that is perhaps most evident in the world of online marketing. Promotions distributed through automated services like Google AdWords often end up on sites that don’t attract members of the target audience, an issue Pathmatics Inc. ...