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Oracle Corp. is rolling out six new services to its burgeoning cloud arsenal that are meant to help large retailers address their evolving operational requirements more effectively. The additions continue the trend of providers increasingly turning to industry-specific functionality for differentiation. That …
Salesforce.com targets B2B lead nurturing with new services
Salesforce.com Inc. is expanding its cloud-based marketing platform with two new services that draw on real-time data about prospects to increase the success of deal-making. The launch promises to help extend the scope of targeting efforts beyond the initial engagement to every …
PLUMgrid ups the ante for OpenStack networking
PLUMgrid Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake software-defined networking overlay that promises to take more of the manual work out of managing traffic in large-scale implementations of OpenStack. The area where the update should make that labor reduction …
Investors chuck $17 million at Palerra for a piece of its cloud security action
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud security startups reached another height this morning after Palerra Inc. snagged $17 million in financing to build out its managed threat detection and response service. The round continues a flurry of recent funding activity in …
Basho targets write-intensive workloads with database update
Basho Technologies Inc. is releasing a new version of its popular key-value store that promises to handle large amounts of unstructured information faster and more reliably than the current version. The update targets the requirements of the global organizations at the forefront …
IIX marks latest $20 million round with second peering acquisition
Peering startup IIX Inc. has raised an additional $20 million in funding less than six months after its previous round to continue scaling global operations. And just like last time, the fresh capital is quickly being put to use with an acquisition …
Cloudonomics: The race to zero is moving up the stack
The trademark margin-cutting strategy of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has disrupted brick-and-mortar commerce and forever changed consumer spending, but that’s only the prelude to the future impact on the enterprise. The retail-turned-cloud-giant’s model is now redefining the fundamental economics of technology services …
Amazon edges toward hybrid cloud embrace with CodeDeploy updates
Amazon has extended its recently introduced code deployment service to work with on-premise machines in a small but significant expansion signaling a strategic change of focus toward hybrid clouds. It’s among the last of the major providers to have seriously embraced the …
CliQr nets $20 million from Google and friends to take the pain out of the hybrid cloud
CliQr Technologies Inc. has snagged $20 million in fresh funding from some of the biggest names On the technology investment scene for its cloud management platform. As the name suggests, the patent-pending software is claimed to reduce the usually painful process of …
Host Analytics aims to address problem of islands of Excel
Host Analytics Inc. is expanding its cloud-based performance management platform with a new modeling service that centralizes planning across the enterprise. The addition aims to address the lack of coordination that too often exists between the financial department and the rest of …