Maria Deutscher
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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 …
Zuora infuses analytics into its cloud subscription platform
Cloud computing is most often discussed through the prism of the technology innovation that enables on-demand infrastructure consumption at scale, but it’s first and foremost a business model. And every business model requires a way to charge customers, which is what Zuora …
Google Preemptive Instances redefine infrastructure-as-a-service model (again)
Google is marking its latest round of double-digit cloud pricing cuts with the introduction of an entirely new consumption option for infrastructure-as-a-service customers that promises to bring the costs of running certain workloads even lower. Amazon started the trend a decade ago …
API mania: MuleSoft scores a massive $128 million to simplify cloud interoperability
If it seemed like the investor interest surrounding API management reached a peak after Apigee Inc. raised $87 million in its stock market debut last month, think again. MuleSoft Inc. has upped the ante this morning with the completion of a $128 …
Accel leads $18M round into “search-as-a-service” rising star Algolia
If you thought the search engine game was over, Algolia, Inc. would like to have a word. The hosted-search startup just found its way into the exclusive investment portfolio of venture capital titan Accel Partner as part of an $18.3 million funding …
Skyport exits stealth to redefine data center security from the ground up
A month after raising $30 million from a group of investors that includes Intel to change the way on-premise workloads are protected, Skyport Systems Inc. is making good on its promise with the launch of a new service that puts an original …
Tableau overhauls cloud-based version of dominant data visualization platform
The shift toward the cloud is continuing apace with the launch of a major update to Tableau Software Inc.’s cloud-based implementation of its data visualization platform that promises to provide an improved experience for business workers. The biggest improvements, however, are under …
New community efforts bring OpenStack closer to cross-cloud interoperability
The fourth annual OpenStack Summit is kicking off with a bang in Vancouver with the launch of a new community certification initiative that has rallied some of the biggest names from the upstream ecosystem behind a common challenge: interoperability. Or more accurately, …
What you missed in Cloud: Moving into the future
Catching-up was the main theme in the public cloud last week, at least among the traditional vendors that generated most of the headlines, who moved several steps close toward matching the smaller and nimbler competition. Oracle led the charge with the announcement …
The OpenStack ecosystem lines up behind Mirantis
Mirantis Inc. is consolidating its power over the OpenStack ecosystem with the introduction of a new certification program that aims to help broaden the support for its already widely used distribution of the free cloud platform. No fewer than five partners are …