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LinkedIn Corp. is furthering its drive into the customer relationship management market with a new high-end edition of its Sales Navigator prospecting tool and improved sales follow-up functionality. The top-of-the-line Sales Navigator Enterprise Edition increases the the number of monthly InMails that users …
Updated: With new products and partnerships, IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud
Updated Tuesday with comments from IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty’s keynote: As rivals public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure keep stealing business from traditional data center suppliers, IBM Corp. is announcing on Monday plans to redouble its …
IBM launches ‘enterprise-ready’ blockchain service
IBM Corp. won’t leave much doubt this week about its enthusiasm for blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that threatens to disrupt a wide swath of industries. On Monday, as part of a raft of announcements at its InterConnect cloud show in Las …
SolarWinds updates tools to simplify multi-cloud complexity
SolarWinds Inc. is buffing up its hybrid information technology management portfolio with updates announced Wednesday to several flagship products as well as its Orion unified monitoring platform. The company said the new features will help IT organizations better pinpoint performance and availability issues …
Rainforest QA adds exploratory option to crowdsourced testing service
Rainforest QA Inc. is expanding its line of crowdsourced software testing services with an exploratory testing option that leverages an elite group of testers to dig up problems that are difficult to surface with prepared test scripts. The company is one of a …
Unitrends builds ransomware detection and recovery into backup software
Unitrends Inc., a maker of enterprise backup and continuity products, is building ransomware detection into its Recovery Series of physical backup appliances and Unitrends Backup Software. The new release leverages the always-on features of the products to spot anomalies and keep businesses running …
DataStax revs up its enterprise-focused Cassandra database
DataStax Inc., which sells an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, today said it has tripled the speed of operational analytics compared with an open-source combination of Cassandra and Apache Spark in the newest version of its DataStax Enterprise product. …
CloudVelox loops processes into cloud migration service
Cloud automation software provider CloudVelox Inc. today is expanding its automation and orchestration capabilities with new features that support customer processes as well as technology. The company’s One Hybrid Cloud software enables enterprises to map their existing network environments to a new or …
Pentaho pitches its integration platform as a machine learning aid
Pentaho Corp. is broadening the scope of its orchestration capabilities to include machine learning, saying its toolset can help teams of data scientists, engineers and analysts to train, tune, test and deploy predictive models in a fraction of the time typically required. …
MapR courts IoT developers with mini version of its big data platform
With the Internet of Things generating anticipation about a new model of distributed computing, MapR Technologies Inc. is hoping to get a jump on its big-data rivals with a version of its Converged Data Platform built specifically for processing at the network …