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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about automation
Like the rest of the software industry, development automation providers have also been moving their offerings to the public cloud in recent years. Shippable Inc. hopes to set its service apart from the growing crowd with a set of new capabilities that …
10,000 IBMers reportedly set to lose their jobs as restructuring begins
The massive restructuring effort that IBM Corp. insiders warned about a few weeks now appears to be underway. Lee Conrad, the head of an independent union serving the company’s U.S. workforce, first sounded the alarms earlier this week after he started receiving emails …
Docker buys ex-Googlers’ startup to automate large-scale container clusters
Docker Inc. is moving towards closing the functionality gap between containers and traditional virtualization software one strategic acquisition at the time. The latest addition to its arsenal is Conductant Inc., a low-key startup that was founded by a group of Google Inc. …
SugarCRM moves to counter Salesforce.com’s analytics push
Marketing automation providers are adding more and more analytics functionality to their solutions as a response to salespeople’s’ increasing reliance on customer data in deal-making. SugarCRM Inc. joined the arms race this week with the purchase of Contastic Inc., a startup that …
LinkedIn open-sources its internal data collaboration platform
As if analyzing unstructured data wasn’t already difficult enough, organizations must also keep track of where their records came from and how they’ve been modified due to various logistical reasons. To preserve the necessary context about the hundreds of terabytes of information …