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Australian bank re-imagines customer experience thanks to NoSQL technology
Bankers view customer-facing digital technology with a mix of excitement and fear. While online banking and mobile apps have made it easier than ever for customers to do business, they also threaten to blur the brand equity that banks have worked so hard to cultivate. After all, one online banking system looks pretty much like ...
Cisco-backed study finds few firms have optimized cloud plans
Cloud adoption is accelerating, but most organizations don’t have a coherent strategy for rationalizing multiple clouds. Cisco Systems Inc. sees that as an opportunity. The networking giant today is rolling out the results of a global study it commissioned from International Data Corp. along with details on its plans to introduce new services to help ...
Pluribus expands hardware support for open switching OS
Pluribus Networks has added certified support for the Open Compute Project (OCP)-compatible 10G/40G AS5712 and AS6712 white box switches from Edgecore Networks Corp., further building out the ecosystem around its Open Netvisor Linux (ONVL) operating system. ONVL is a software-defined approach to high-speed switching that runs on white box hardware from Dell Technologies Inc., Super Micro Computer Inc. ...
Runnable’s private staging servers attack development bottleneck
Runnable Inc. is boosting its lineup of developer productivity tools with a service that provides developers with their own private staging servers, thereby attacking a chronic bottleneck in the development process. Staging servers mimic the production environment in which an application operates, giving developers a way to test code prior to release. But staging servers ...
Tectonic expands line of cloud migration services
Tectonic LLC is expanding its lineup of cloud consulting, marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM) migration services with a new program that provides companies with guidance and the ability to test new technologies before moving fully to a cloud environment. “MoveIt” is a custom consulting service based upon pre-packaged methodologies that’s geared toward IT departments that are considering cloud migration. It includes ...
LinkedIn seeks more CRM partners for Sales Navigator app
LinkedIn Corp. is stepping up efforts to woo vendors of customer relationship management (CRM) applications to embrace its Sales Navigator social selling tool with a new partner program that enables vendors to integrate Sales Navigator functionality directly into their applications. LinkedIn previously supported such functionality in Salesforce.com Inc. and Microsoft Dynamics. Earlier this year the ...
Here are details of today’s Oracle cloud announcements
Oracle’s said its new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing initiative is aimed squarely at market leader Amazon Web Services LLC, but its strategy appears to take a page from a more traditional competitor – IBM. Oracle’s announcement this morning stressed the value of bare-metal cloud servers that the company claimed are more than 11 ...
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld, cloud computing will take center stage
As the 20th annual Oracle OpenWorld conference gets underway next week in San Francisco, the world’s second-largest independent software company will have a lot to show off — and a lot to prove. An estimated 60,000 customers, partners, journalists and analysts will gather for the five-day event to hear how the company plans to maintain its ...
HPE opens up ArcSight platform, courts DevOps practitioners
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE)’s announced plans to spin off its enterprise security software business to Micro Focus International plc didn’t stop the company from flooring its Protect user conference this week or making a few announcements. HPE said it’s opening up its ArcSight Data Platform (ADP) with a new release that the company claims connects ...
Pulpstream brings enterprise workflows to mobile apps
Pulpstream Inc., a company founded by serial bootstrapper Pankaj Malviya, debuted this week with a “zero coding” workstream platform that is oriented toward companies with distributed mobile work forces. The native app platform uses graphical design tools to enable business users to create workflows that integrate with existing enterprise applications and deploy them quickly. Pulpstream is ...