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Hadoop is getting hotter, and that can only be good news for Cloudera Inc. as it looks to cash in on one of enterprise software’s biggest trends. Rival companies like Hortonworks Inc. and IBM might have thrown a spanner in the works …
Microsoft hints at Windows-as-a-Service strategy for future revenues
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model has expanded rapidly in the past few years, with many companies preferring it over the traditional licensing model. But Microsoft, the biggest software company of them all, has been somewhat slower to embrace the concept, and is only …
USBKill transforms your thumb drive into a kill switch
Cybercriminals who spend their lives looking over their shoulders, terrified of being caught red-handed by law enforcement with a laptop full of incriminating information can breathe a little easier, thanks to an empty USB drive and some simple code. That’s because a …
Microsoft brings Azure to your data center with Azure Stack
Microsoft is boxing up a number of its cloud-based operating system components into a new Azure Stack offering that’s designed to be run in customers on-premise data centers. The new service extends Microsoft Azure’s application development and deployment model to any data …
Outreach snags $2M to automate sales tasks
Outreach Inc., which delivers a sales platform that helps companies to automate calls and emails, has just announced $2 million in seed funding. The platform is capable of giving salespeople “superpowers”, said Manuel Medina, the company’s CEO, in an interview with VentureBeat. …
Intel sets its sights on Altera in hostile takeover bid
Intel Corp. could soon launch a hostile takeover of rival chip making firm Altera Corp., after a standstill agreement signed between the two companies comes to an end on June 1. The report comes via Reuters, which cites “unnammed sources” familiar with …
Gartner: Enterprises to hold off on PC purchases; higher prices to blame
The PC market has been feeling the pinch for a few years, and things are likely to get tougher as vendors are forced to raise their prices by as much as 10 percent this year, due to the impact of the strong …
Oracle distances itself from Salesforce acquisition rumors
Salesforce.com, Inc. might be up for sale, but Oracle yesterday played down speculation that it is the mystery suitor, as most analysts initially suspected. The comments came directly from Oracle CEO Safra Catz, who didn’t outright deny her company was interested in …
Adatao brings its Big Data machine learning tools to the masses
Big Data startup Adatao Inc. is aiming to make business intelligence accessible to everyone with the release of its first products, after it raised $13 million in venture capital late last year. The company’s main offering is the Adatao Data Intelligence Platform, …
Microsoft hopes to have Windows 10 on ONE BILLION devices in just 3 years
Microsoft’s Terry Myerson, head of the company’s Operating Systems Group, has gone out on a limb and predicted that Windows 10 will be running on one billion devices within the next two to three years. Myserson made his claims during day one …