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Microsoft’s Office Online gets real-time chat capabilities
Microsoft’s Office Online is pretty comprehensive when it comes to collaboration, allowing multiple users to edit documents online, embed comments and so on. But sometimes that just isn’t enough – what people need is the ability to ask impulsive questions or make off-the-cuff remarks to speed things along. With that in mind, Microsoft has said ...
Cloud wars: Value, not price, drives market share in the public cloud
Contrary to what many have suggested, the public cloud market is still a long way from becoming a commodity market, according to new research from analyst firm 451 Research LLC. The findings come from 451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index (CPI), which shows that the so-called “race to the bottom” in public cloud, embodied by ...
Google takes on Microsoft & Tableau with free data visualization tool
Google is upping its game in the business analytics market with the launch of Data Studio, a free version of its new reporting and data visualization tool, Google Data Studio 360. While the free, beta version isn’t quite as robust as the paid offering, users can still create as many as five multi-page reports that ...
Red Hat beefs up Ansible with broader support for Docker, Windows & Azure
Red Hat Inc. has updated its recently acquired Ansible technology, launching a new version that comes with enhanced support for Docker containers and also Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Ansible was only acquired by Red Hat in October of last year, and the new Ansible 2.1 update is actually the second new version of the DevOps ...
Salesforce hitches a ride on Amazon’s cloud, eyes international expansion
Salesforce.com, Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are solidifying their relationship in the cloud, with the former announcing that it’s chosen AWS as its “preferred public cloud infrastructure provider”. Salesforce says it’s decided to go with AWS in order to further its international expansion plans. As a result, services including its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, ...
Placemeter’s “Urban Intelligence” platform gets improved object recognition capabilities
“Urban Intelligence” outfit Placemeter Inc. has made a name for itself by offering cities and businesses the chance to measure what’s happening outside of their business premises, on the roads and even in city parks. The company does so by way of real-time video feeds. Its software taps into video cameras placed in strategic locations, ...
Hungry industries to drive rapid global Big Data revenue growth
New research from International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasts global revenues in the Big Data and business analytics market to grow from $122 billion in 2015 to $187 billion by 2019, a greater than fifty percent increase over the five-year forecast period. The analyst firm said that services will account for more than half of all ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure Site Recovery with Flash-based cloud storage options
Microsoft is enhancing its Azure Site Recovery service with a new disaster recovery option that relies on solid-state drives instead of traditional spinning disks. Azure Site Recovery is Microsoft’s chief business continuity offering, and existing customers can replicate their most critical workloads to Azure’s Premium Storage as a backup. Instead of storing that data on ...
Apixio’s $19.3m Series D round highlights the potential of Big Data in healthcare
What with the Affordable Care Act making health insurance more widely available, healthcare providers and other medical organizations are under growing pressure to accurately predict the costs of patient care. Apixio Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based data science company, is hoping to help healthcare providers do just that. The six-year old startup offers a cognitive computing ...
Salesforce discloses $75m investments on AI startups in Q1
Salesforce.com, Inc. has disclosed that it spent approximately $75 million on acquisitions in the last quarter, when it bought out three startups. The disclosure came via regulatory filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday. In its disclosure, Salesforce revealed it shelled out a massive $32.8 million to acquire artificial intelligence (AI)-based ...