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After years of only supporting Salesforce.com, cloud unicorn Apttus Inc. is integrating its popular billing automation service with Microsoft Corp.’s competing Dynamics CRM platform. The move appears to be linked to the customer relationship management giant’s $360 million purchase of rival Steelbrick Inc. a few …
What you missed in Big Data: Enabling faster analytics
Although the venture capital community is much less generous with its cash than it was a year ago, promising analytics startups are still more than capable of raising funding. Last week saw the investor appeal of data crunching software reaffirmed once again after …
What you missed in Cloud: Improving infrastructure visibility
Like the rest of the industry, the movers and shakers of the cloud ecosystem turned their attention to the Microsoft Build summit last week, which saw the software powerhouse introduce a host of new features for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The release was …
Microsoft poaches Oracle’s “Mr Linux” to head up its open-source efforts
Microsoft Corp.’s human resources department is stepping up its game. Five months after losing one of its division heads to Salesforce.com Inc., the software giant has reportedly poached a key executive from Oracle Corp. who earned the nickname “Mr Linux” for his …
BlackBerry’s Q4 revenue misses Wall Street projections by nearly $100M
BlackBerry Ltd’s struggling handset business is declining faster than the market or even its leadership could anticipate. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $487 million during its earnings call this morning, substantially less than the $563 million average analyst forecast for the …
Microsoft doubles down on cloud transparency at Build 2016
Alongside the developer services that were added to Azure at its Build event this week, Microsoft Corp. rolled out new monitoring functionality designed to help customers keep a closer eye on their cloud deployments. Headlining the release is a tool called Service …
Red Hat will give away its Linux distro for free to developers
Two years after making its JBoss suite of middleware tools free for non-production use, Red Hat Inc. is introducing the ability to download its flagship Linux distribution under the same terms. The move should make it much more straightforward for developers to …
Microsoft challenges one of AWS’ fastest growing services with Azure Functions
The public cloud provides the ability to rent a supercomputer’s worth of processing power on a moment’s notice for an important task and then deallocate the resources just as fast, but not every project necessities so much infrastructure. In fact, many applications …
Dell launches beefy new PowerEdge servers with Intel’s latest Xeon chips
Processors may not be getting faster at the same rate they once used to, but data center suppliers are nonetheless continuing to push the envelope on performance. Dell Inc. this morning unveiled a new line of PowerEdge machines that incorporate Intel Corp.’s …
Microsoft to open-source newly acquired Xamarin’s cross-platform dev tech
The developer community was caught entirely off guard in November of 2014 when Microsoft Corp. abruptly announced that it’s open-sourcing its popular .NET application framework for Windows. Six quarters and countless code contributions later, however, it should come as much less of …