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HP’s troubled services division gears up for multi-billion dollar cuts
While top software-as-a-service providers are experiencing record growth on the back of increasing cloud demand, more traditional players such as HP that are still in the process of adapting to the new way of delivering technology capabilities have been caught somewhat unprepared. That is now driving the hardware giant to expedite its transition with a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hybrid analytics
Last week saw the analytics movement grow even more closely entwined with the cloud thanks to new updates that promise to help organizations take advantage of the economies offered by the as-a-service model to accommodate their growing information troves. VMware Inc. found itself in the center of it all after word leaked of internal plans ...
Rubrik scores $41 million from Greylock and friends for converged data protection
Barely two months after exiting stealth with $10 million in freshly raised venture capital, Rubrik Inc. has secured another funding round more than four times that size to aid its mission of eliminating the need for backup software. And the team is finally revealing how it plans to go about accomplishing that ambitious goal. The ...
Rumor: Google is making a move for the Internet of Things
The next entrant into the world of embedded operating systems could emerge as none other than Google, according to multiple reports ahead of its annual developer conference next week. In the likelihood that the rumors prove true, that would represent a radical evolution of its current mobile strategy, if not a particularly surprising one. The ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack evolution
The race to cloud dominance took a detour to Vancouver this week for the sixth bi-annual OpenStack Summit, where vendors from around the ecosystem showed off their latest wares to try and woo the enterprise technology buyers in attendance. The spotlight was divided among three main groups led by the guests of honor: the distributors. Drawing ...
Why is this Ashton Kutcher-backed SQL startup taking a shot at geospatial data?
MemSQL Inc., which is probably the only high-profile database startup that can boast of an active A-lister among its investors, has pulled the curtains back on a new version of its namesake in-memory store that is hailed as the most significant iteration yet. The addition earning the release that lofty designation is the ability to ...
Intel offers hardware-level answer to container security challenges
Intel has become the latest vendor to throw its weight behind the push to solve the security woes of containers with the launch of a new technology that promises to address the risks currently standing in the way of widespread production use from the hardware level up. It’s the latest fruit of the internal Clear ...
Salesforce.com continues to defy gravity; investors cheer another record quarter
Unlike some of its more traditional competitors, Salesforce.com Inc. has managed to brave losses from a strengthening dollar to post record growth across all of its businesses for the first quarter. The upbeat earnings reflect continued momentum in the shift from on-premise software to cloud services among traditional enterprises. The biggest beneficiary of that trend ...
Analysis: Microsoft going with the Flow in renewed enterprise collaboration push
Microsoft has been suspiciously haphazard with its internal projects lately. First, details about the upcoming container-based version of Windows Server leaked shortly before the official reveal, and now an anonymous Twitter user has stumbled upon a page on its site that seemingly reveals the existence of an effort to develop a companion chat client for Outlook. ...
Clarabridge’s latest acquisition aims to put more analytics into customer experience management
The consolidation of the digital marketing world is continuing apace. Barely a day after the company powering some of the most well-known cloud services around entered the business of helping providers understand their customers with its first acquisition, Clarabridge Inc. has announced a purchase of its own to try to stay on top. The Virigina-based customer ...