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Salesforce integrates Marketing Cloud with Google Analytics
Salesforce.com Inc. has made good on a promise it made last year to integrate its Marketing Cloud with Google Inc.’s analytics platform. The company said at its Salesforce Connections event in Chicago Wednesday that it’s integrating Marketing Cloud with Google Analytics 360, allowing customers to combine data from both platforms into a single dashboard. The idea ...
Oracle’s new Internet Intelligence Map lets you check the health of the web
Oracle Corp. today is making a free tool available that people can use to keeps tabs on the health of the web. Available for anyone to use, Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map constantly tracks the state of the Internet in real-time, allowing people to see how events such as cyberattacks and natural disasters impact on connectivity in different ...
Samsung NEXT’s Q Fund aims to tackle AI’s toughest challenges
Samsung Electronics Ltd.’s early-stage startup accelerator Samsung NEXT is looking to secure a foothold for its parent company in the emerging field of artificial intelligence, announcing a new fund dedicated to AI startups. Samsung NEXT, launched in 2013 with a focus on emerging technologies, has already invested in a number of AI startups, including deep ...
Strangeworks lands $4M funding to teach developers quantum computing
Quantum computing startup Strangeworks Inc. is hoping to make the potentially revolutionary technology more accessible to developers after landing a $4 million seed funding round. Announced Tuesday, the round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Ecliptic Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, Lux Capital, BoxGroup and Amplify Partners. Austin, Texas-based Strangeworks, which was founded only last ...
VMware announces new Network Functions Virtualization platform for edge computing
Bidding to become a major player at the heart of telecommunications infrastructure for edge computing, VMware Inc. today announced the launch of its new vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0 infrastructure platform. Aimed at network carriers, the new platform is designed to facilitate 5G and distributed computing environments within multicloud telco networks. The release comes just after the ...
Taking on Nvidia and AMD, Intel says it will launch its first discrete graphics chips in 2020
Targeting rivals Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. today confirmed in a tweet that it’s entering the market for discrete graphics processing units, with its first products expected in 2020. The company didn’t provide any details except for the confirmation. Instead, it linked back to an earlier announcement about its hiring of ...
Google adds more devices to Android Enterprise Recommended program
Google Inc. is adding more devices to its Android Enterprise Recommended program, which establishes a set of best practices for smartphone makers that want to market those devices to business users. The company launched Android Enterprise Recommended back in February, detailing several common requirements for smartphone devices and services that are backed by a rigorous ...
Google adds support for Node.js on its developer App Engine platform
Google Inc. today announced support for Node.js on its App Engine cloud-based web framework for building software applications hosted on Google infrastructure. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for executing JavaScript code server-side that’s becoming increasingly popular for running data applications at scale. Google said that starting today, developers can now deploy applications built using ...
Online retailer Zulily moves to Amazon Web Services’ cloud
E-commerce company Zulily LLC said today that it’s moving the vast majority of its information technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services in another big customer win for the public cloud giant. Zulily, which sells clothing, kids’ toys and home products via its online platform, is the latest in a string of big ...
Rackspace offers colocation services as a bridge to the cloud
Managed cloud computing services company Rackspace Inc. today said it will offer colocation services for customers that wish to deploy their own hardware inside the company’s data centers. The data center colocation model offers enterprises an alternative to regular cloud computing. With colocation, data center operators simply rent out space within their facility and provide ...
