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Big data company Cloudera Inc. could be heading for an initial public offering sometime this year, after it reportedly hired underwriters to help prepare the company for the move. Bloomberg broke the news, citing the usual “people with knowledge of the matter.” …
ServiceNow appoints a new CEO, former eBay boss John Donahoe
ServiceNow Inc. has appointed former eBay Inc. and Bain & Co. Chief Executive John Donahoe to be CEO. The company announced the change late on Monday, after current CEO Frank Slootman decided a transition of leadership was in order. Donahoe, who is also …
Microsoft signs up for Facebook-led Telecom Infra Project
Microsoft Corp. is among a number of new companies to sign up to Facebook Inc.’s one-year-old Telecom Infra Project, which is an attempt to repeat the success of the Open Compute Project in the telecommunications industry. Microsoft, along with Facebook and other hyperscale …
Oracle launches on-premises edition of Exadata Cloud service
Oracle Corp. is slowly clearing a path to its public cloud with the launch today of its new Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine service. As part of the company’s Cloud at Customer portfolio launched last year, the new offering allows companies to deploy the …
Workday outpaces earnings forecast, but investors yawn
Human resources software provider Workday Inc.’s momentum showed no sign of slowing down Monday as the company powered past Wall Street earnings expectations with its fourth-quarter results. The company posted a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 7 cents a …
Microsoft enhances database diagramming in Visio Pro
Microsoft Corp. is offering database users the chance to shed more light on their most complex deployments and business processes with a new update to Visio Pro, its diagramming application software. The main update is something called a database reverse engineering tool, …
Google turbocharges cloud data centers with Intel’s newest Skylake Xeon chips
Google Inc. has stolen a march on public cloud rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure by becoming the first provider to bring Intel Corp.’s next-generation Xeon Skylake chips to its data centers. The move follows Google’s announcement last November that it …
Email automation service Mailgun spins out from Rackspace, raises $50M in financing
Rackspace Inc. is still ringing in changes following an acquisition that took the company private, spinning out its email automation platform Mailgun Technologies, Inc. as an independent firm. The new entity also announced a whopping $50 million funding round on Wednesday. Mailgun …
Storj Labs launches crowdsourced storage based on blockchain
A startup called Storj Labs Inc. has launched an open-source, distributed cloud object storage platform built on blockchain technology that encrypts files across a peer-to-peer network. The company is essentially crowdsourcing storage, enabling individuals to share their unused storage capacity in a …
CafeX slaps Amazon Web Services with lawsuit over naming of its Chime product
Workplace collaboration vendor CafeX Communications Inc. has slapped Amazon Web Services with a lawsuit over the name of AWS’s recently announced Amazon Chime videoconferencing product. CafeX has offered its own video collaboration product, also called “Chime,” since last year, and claims that …