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Oracle blitzes sales and marketing pros with new cloud options
It looks like Oracle is tired of watching Salesforce.com Inc. have all the fun. The database giant is unleashing a torrent of new marketing-oriented products and services today at a quartet of customer experience-focused conferences it’s holding in Las Vegas for customer service, e-commerce, sales and marketing professionals. Collectively, the new capabilities are intended to ...
Survey finds tech professionals are a footloose bunch
Watch out San Francisco; New York is out to get you. At least that’s what it would seem from the opinions expressed by users of the anonymous tech recruiting site Woo. The startup munged through the profiles of 5,000 of its users to find out what technology professionals care about, where they want to live, ...
Microsoft narrowly misses Q3 net, but cloud business is booming
Not yet. Microsoft narrowly missed analysts estimates and earnings and all but matched revenue expectations in the fiscal third quarter, but it offered weaker-than-expected guidance for the year, knocking its shares down in immediate after-hours trading and perhaps obscuring the bigger growth story. Revenues were down about six percent over the year-earlier quarter, but not ...
Spark muscling in on Hadoop’s territory, says Wikibon analyst
Is Apache Spark the successor to Hadoop? Some people think so. Given the batch-oriented Hadoop’s complexity and the notorious performance problems of the MapReduce processing framework and the components that depend upon it, the integration and speed that the in-memory Spark analytics engine brings to the table has a lot of appeal. The big news ...
MemSQL raises $36M to advance its in-memory analytical database
MemSQL Inc., developer of a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, closed an over-subscribed series C financing round of $36 million, bringing its total funding to $85 million and setting the stage for international expansion. Previous investors Accel Partners LP, Khosla Ventures LLC, Data Collective, IA Ventures and First Round Capital all bought in to the ...
Canonical courts enterprises, developers with new Ubuntu release
With a newly signed deal with longtime antagonist Microsoft under its belt, Canonical Ltd. is rolling out the sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS), adding features that should improve the Linux distribution’s appeal to developers and enterprises. An LTS release is supported and maintained by Canonical for five years, making it an attractive choice for long-term, ...
EMC misses earnings target but says Dell merger is on track
EMC isn’t doing itself any favors in helping along its merger with Dell Inc. The storage giant reported weaker-than-expected earnings this morning, citing an “excess of unfulfilled orders.” Earnings per share were 31 cents, flat from a year ago and two cents below consensus analyst estimates. Revenue was down 2.5 percent to $5.48 billion, also below ...
Upbeat VMware says future’s so bright it’s gotta wear shades
Looks like things aren’t so troubled at VMware Inc. after all. Coming off the first quarter of what management has termed a “transition year,” and following a string of executive departures as well as confusion about its cloud strategy, the virtualization giant beat first-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, reaffirmed guidance for the year and surprised investors ...
Cloudera’s Olson sees innovation flourishing amid consolidation
With Pivotal Software Inc.’s announcement that it is formally abandoning Hadoop development in favor of standardizing on Hortonworks Inc.’s platform, the field of active competitors in the Hadoop market has been culled to just a handful. With that as a backdrop, we thought it was a good time to check in with Mike Olson, who ...
Microsoft to offer Talon distributed storage through StorSimple cloud service
Distributed storage vendor Talon Storage Solutions, Inc. scored a coup by gaining Microsoft’s endorsement of its CloudFast cloud-based file-caching software as a joint offering in the Azure Marketplace with Microsoft’s StorSimple hybrid cloud storage appliance. CloudFast centralizes file-based data in a global network with features like caching, file locking, “differencing” and transport optimization to provide ...