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Salesforce courts SMBs with app store for Desk.com customer support service
Salesforce.com Inc. launched a new application catalog for its Desk.com service that aims to make an unprecedented amount of information available to support-desk employees via its AppExchange platform. The service is aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) customers. The Desk.com App Hub gives customer support representatives (CSRs) access to data in other Salesforce.com apps that can ...
HANA is the glue holding SAP and Amazon together | #reinvent
SAP SE has made no secret of its plan to transition from licensing on-premise software to selling cloud services, an ambitious transformation that relies on partners to provide the groundwork. Rayn Veerubhotla, Vice President of Global Technology Partners for SAP, appeared on theCUBE at Amazon.com Inc.’s recent re:Invent conference to explain how the retail giant ...
AWS mastermind Hamilton tells how Amazon has stayed ahead of the pack | #reinvent
As the person responsible for running the world’s largest public cloud, Amazon.com Inc.’s James Hamilton knows a thing or two about delivering technology services at scale. The industry-renowned engineer returned to theCUBE at the retail giant’s recent re:Invent summit earlier this month to provide a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the global infrastructure ...
How the cloud freed up Workiva to focus on what matters | #gcplive
With more than 2,100 customers around the world including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500, Workiva Inc. stands out as one of the most influential enterprise vendors to have emerged in the wake of the infrastructure-as-a-service revolution. Dave Tucker, the senior director of platform development at the firm, dropped by theCUBE against the ...
Survey: 70 percent of IT pros prefer open source to proprietary software
An overwhelming majority of IT professionals favor open source software over proprietary alternatives, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute conducted on behalf of Zimbra Inc., the enterprise collaboration provider. That mirrors a similar pattern among enterprise developers, over 80 percent of whom share that sentiment according to an earlier Forrester Research report. The ...
Splice Machine says it has world’s only relational DBMS running on Hadoop
After two years in development, Splice Machine Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s only Hadoop-based relational database management system (RDBMS) into general availability with the promise of providing a cheaper and more scalable alternative to the Oracle Corp. databases that have ruled the enterprise for the last few decades. While the idea of running ...
Salesforce.com expands beyond marketing with brand engagement platform
Salesforce.com Inc. is taking social media analytics beyond the marketing department with a new iteration of its Social Studio that promises to help professionals in other parts of the business gain a better understand of customers, too. The move follows barely a month after IBM teamed with Twitter Inc. to try to reach a similar ...
Cisco leverages Hadoop for latest contribution to open security framework
Although Cisco Systems Inc. is best known for selling proprietary data center switches, it also plays an active role in the open-source ecosystem, ranking as the sixth most prolific contributor to OpenStack and listing several community projects under its belt. The networking stalwart added another notch to its repertoire this week with the release of ...
CipherCloud scores $50 million to make the cloud safe for corporate data
CipherCloud Inc. became the second cloud security startup to announce an eight-figure funding round this week after revealing on Wednesday that it has raised $50 million from a group of prominent investors to make the public cloud safer for storing sensitive corporate data. The financing comes hot on the heels of Veradocs Inc. exiting stealth ...
Veradocs nabs $14 million to secure corporate data outside the firewall
The growing amount of corporate data moving outside the firewall to the cloud is making it more difficult than ever for CIOs to defend against security leaks, a challenge that Veradocs Inc. has taken upon itself to address once and for all. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with $14 million in funding to bring ...