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What you missed in Cloud: Integrated experiences
Nearly a decade after cloud computing first reared its head in the enterprise, players like Microsoft Corp. are seeing demand for their services grow as fast as ever, but so is the competition. That is driving an industry-wide race for new ways to differentiate that turned to integrations last week in a sign of the ...
Salesforce brings Desk.com into the embedded productivity era
Only days after introducing the ability for enterprises to embed its popular support delivery service into their mobile applications, Saleforce.com Inc. hopes to extend the same benefits to customers of the slimmed-down edition for small- and medium-sized businesses. Except, that is, the other way around. The update to Desk.com brings the option to embed partner-developed ...
PubNub nets $20 million for its cloud-based data distribution service
In addition to filtering, analyzing, visualizing and sharing it, organizations nowadays also require – perhaps above all else – the ability to move their data to where it needs to be in a timely manner, a challenge that PubNub Inc. has made a respectable business out of addressing. And that business is now set to ...
Elastic puts its open-source Big Data search engine in the cloud
The Netherlands’ Elastic BV is ticking another item off the fairly narrow list of ways to monetize open-source software with the launch of new hosted implementations of its hugely popular free search engine for unstructured data that offer a simpler alternative to manual deployment. The launch couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Demand ...
Microsoft and rivals join forces in new R statistical analytics consortium
A week after the opposing camps of the containerization movement set aside their differences to agree upon a common competitive standard, the much bigger and better-known members of the R ecosystem are repeating history with the establishment of a new joint consortium to help drive the adoption of the statistical programming language. R is already in use ...
Broadening horizons? Oracle gets into web development to court SMBs
Amid faltering sales across its core traditional businesses, Oracle Corp. is moving aggressively to seize the momentum of its cloud business, the only major source of growth in an otherwise bleak revenue outlook, with new services. But the latest addition to the roster still comes as something of a surprise even in light of its ...
Adaptive Insights bags a massive $75 million to bring CPM back in vogue
Corporate performance management is not exactly at the top of the enterprise technology wishlist nowadays, but it remains in an inseparable part of operations even as decision-makers devout more and more of their attention to newer trends. The focus, however, is now starting to shift back, heralded by the $75 million bet that investors placed Adaptive ...
Kyvos Insights launches native OLAP engine for Hadoop
The Hadoop ecosystem has a natural inclination towards variety. That first came to the fore with the release of Apache Storm two years ago, which has since been followed by no less than three other stream processing engines, and is now repeating itself with the introduction of a new online analytics engine (OLAP) from Kyvos ...
Distil pulls in $21 million for its online bot hunter
As if more proof was required of investors’ enthusiasm towards cybersecurity, Distil Networks Inc. has raised $21 million in funding this morning to help expand the development and marketing of its anti-bot technology amid equally fast-growing interest from the enterprise. However, it doesn’t quite fit into the profile of the startups that have been getting most ...
New OpenDaylight Lithium release extends SDN to the Internet of Things
The organizations behind the OpenDaylight Project are moving another element to the right on the periodic table this morning with the third release of their free network controller, which brings a host of new features and integrations that significantly expand the scope of supported use cases. And with the same stroke, the update nudges software-defined ...