Maria Deutscher
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The process of converting leads into paying customers takes up much of the modern marketer’s time and effort, but the work hardly ends there. Sorting out the logistical details of closing a deal can prove almost as taxing when large numbers are …
Earnings shed new light on competitive lines in the public cloud
The latest round of earnings reports in the public cloud reveals that the balance of power remains largely unchanged among the top providers, but the competitive lines are being redrawn as the emphasis continues to shift beyond infrastructure. That’s better for some …
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop no longer the only game in town
Microsoft managed to momentarily steal the analytics limelight from Hadoop last week after a new report revealed that it’s planning to launch a cloud-based alternative to the batch processing platform using technology that’s been used internally for several years with great success. …
What you missed in Cloud: Shifting rivalries
The competitive lines of the public cloud shifted considerably last week as a number of major players repositioned to address their new priorities. VMware made the biggest splash after striking an unexpected alliance with Google to bring four of the latter’s most …
Why buying Oracle’s expensive appliances made sense for Cognizant | #datacenter
With the rise of cloud services, it has become rather difficult to justify buying a traditional on-premise appliance when the same functionality is available from an outside provider at a fraction of the cost. For many smaller companies, the refrigerator-sized systems that …
Datadog bites off $31 million to grow universal monitoring service
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud management startups shows no sign of abating. Following closely behind a series of investments in cross-provider security vendors, Datadog Inc. has landed $31 million in an oversubscribed round of funding to drive the adoption of …
SimpliVity wants to unwind IT’s feedback loop of complexity | #VTUG
Approaching infrastructure in terms of its building blocks raises several major challenges for practitioners, not the least of which is accommodating change. Managing the individual pieces is already difficult enough as it is, but when it comes to moving something around or …
Amazon launches WorkMail to reach deeper into the office
Amazon is continuing to expand its cloud empire into more parts of the enterprise with a new email service geared specifically toward knowledge workers. The launch matches its two biggest rivals on an important office productivity front as the competition shifts beyond pricing …
The green side of the software-defined data center
Born-on-the-Web companies have already initiated a massive industry-wide shift toward virtualization and highly scalable open source platforms, but they’re also have an impact in a less-noticed area: power efficiency. Data centers are among the biggest electricity consumers on the grid, accounting for …
Forrester: HP a top supplier for private clouds in China
While it hasn’t made too big of a name for itself in the public cloud, the soon-to-split HP is a force to be reckoned with on the global map when it comes to private implementations, according to a new report from Forrester …