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Startup aims to shake up contract management with free service
Armed with $2.7 million of angel investment and a target market of “the world,” Concord Worldwide Inc. today is introducing a full-feature contract management service that it’s giving away for free. The software-as-a-service offering includes features that are typically limited to paid products, such as online document editing, version control, attachments, and discussion. Concord also ...
Opinion: Amazon bids to become the Microsoft of the cloud
I started my technology journalism career in the early 1980s, when IBM’s market dominance was so complete that each year it sopped up half of the industry’s revenues and 80 percent of its profits. I also covered Microsoft during its ascent into desktop dominance. These two amazing companies achieved almost unbelievable power in very competitive markets because ...
Exclusive interview: Amazon enters IoT maker market #reinvent
Amazon Web Services is jumping into the Internet of things today with the introduction of AWS IoT, a collection of devices and software services that people can user to experiment with self-monitoring and automatically controlled environments. In an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, Glenn Gore, Senior Manager of Technology Solutions at AWS, explained ...
Clusterpoint adds computation to NoSQL database engine
NoSQL database-as-a-service vendor Clusterpoint SIA is using the year’s hottest word – “disruption” – to describe the latest version of its namesake product. In version 4, Clusterpoint has added computational capability to the database engine, enabling data to be shared among multiple nodes, with code-execution capability on each node. Clusterpoint is positioning the new release ...
AWS/Accenture joint venture targets enterprise cloud migration | #reinvent
In a move aimed squarely at IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) linked up with Accenture PLC to form a business group to help enterprise customers move to the Amazon cloud. The alignment with Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm with a $32 billion in 2014 revenues and 336,000 employees, gives AWS ...
Mendix broadly expands model-driven development platform
Mendix, Inc. announced version 6 of its rapid application development platform, adding support for offline functionality in mobile applications, an model application program interface (API) and open-source software development kit (SDK) with enhanced import and export capability for application models. Mendix is a model-driven development platform, meeting that users build applications by modeling flows and ...
Digital transformation becoming a board-room issue, PwC study says
The seventh annual Global Digital IQ Survey from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC US (PwC) is out, and the news isn’t great for CIOs, at least on the surface. The survey of 2,000 executives in 51 countries found that 68 percent of digital spending is now coming from budgets outside of the IT organization, up dramatically from ...
Puppet Labs now models infrastructure from the application out
Puppet Labs, Inc., which has ridden the surging popularity of the DevOps and IT automation crazes to a revenue run rate of over $75 million and IPO plans next spring, is upping its enterprise game with a new way to help organizations orchestrate the deployment and management of business-critical infrastructure and applications. The developer of ...
BMC’s Beauchamp says digital transformation is on course
BMC Software, Inc. went private two years ago as the winds of change were buffeting vendors in the systems management realm. The 35-year-old maker of service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management software hasn’t faded quietly into the night, however. Under the leadership of Robert Beauchamp, it has ...
MapR add JSON support to flagship NoSQL database
Looking to extend the scope of its high-performance Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today is announcing the addition of native JSON support to its NoSQL database. JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format that is commonly used to represent simple data structures and objects. It is widely used in Web browser-based ...