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Lob’s personalized direct mail service lands on Salesforce.com’s App Exchange
Lob.com Inc., the maker of a direct mail platform undergirded by data analytics, announced today that it is now available on Salesforce.com Inc.’s AppExchange under a partnership with developer Veezla Inc. Salesforce.com users can use the service to send personalized letters, postcards and checks at scale without having to leave the Salesforce environment. Reporting and ...
SAP posts strong earnings on fastest new cloud growth in five years
SAP SE’s profits rose sharply in its first fiscal quarter, helped by strong growth in its cloud business, but revenues came in flat, in line with earlier guidance. Even so, the German software giant said it’s bullish on full-year results as customer migrations to the cloud accelerate. Total revenue rose 2% in constant-currency terms, to ...
Latest Gartner forecast confirms it: Rush to the cloud is on
By all accounts, business spending on cloud services accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gartner Inc.’s new 2021 cloud computing forecast confirms it. The research firm said today it expects worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services to grow 23.1% in 2021, to $332.3 billion, up from the 19% growth in 2020. “The events of last ...
VMware supports distributed workforces with SASE security, global POP network
VMware Inc. today extended its Workspace ONE endpoint management technology to provide better support for distributed workforces. The new package delivers desktop and application virtualization, cloud-native endpoint and workload protection and cloud-based security based on secure access service edge or SASE principles. VMware Anywhere Workspace integrates the Carbon Black Cloud security technology it picked up ...
Dell spiffs up PowerStore intelligence and debuts low-end storage model
Calling the PowerStore storage product line it introduced last year “the fastest-ramping new architecture in our company’s history,” Dell Technologies Inc. today is refreshing the product with improved speed and automation and also introducing a low-cost entry port starting at $28,000. Dell has had high expectations for PowerStore to jumpstart its growth in the midrange ...
IBM surprises investors with return to growth in first quarter
After four consecutive quarters of revenue declines, IBM Corp. surprised investors today with 1% growth in quarterly revenue, sending its stock up more than 3% in after-hours trading and raising hopes that other technology giants could report similar surprises in the coming weeks. Revenue rose to $17.73 billion from the same quarter a year ago and ...
Alluxio adds Posix and S3 support for faster analytics across its distribute file system
Distributed file system developer Alluxio Inc. today added interfaces to Posix and Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage to its open-source Data Orchestration Platform, in a bid to make it easier for business intelligence and model training to be conducted using popular machine learning and analytics frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Specifically, Alluxio 2.5 adds ...
Report documents growing nation-state cyberattacks on commercial enterprises
A new study sponsored by HP Inc. finds that nation-state cyberattacks are becoming more common and that bad actors are increasingly targeting enterprises. Nation-States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit documents a 100% rise in “significant” nation-state incidents between 2017-2020 with 35% of attacks targeting large businesses, followed by cyberdefense agencies (25%) and media and ...
Tasktop ropes in $100M from a single investor to advance the case for value stream management
Tasktop Technologies Inc. today marked a major milestone in its efforts to validate its technology for tying software development to business outcomes. The company announced a $100 million investment from Sumeru Equity Partners LP, a private equity firm that mostly invests in growth-oriented software, technology services and hardware companies. The infusion is more than triple ...
In autistic people, tech firms find long-overlooked talent trove
Nicole Radziwill graduated from Pennsylvania State University at the age of 18 and went on to earn an MBA and a Ph.D. in technology management and quality systems. She taught data science at the university level for 11 years, did a stint as editor-in-chief of the academic journal Software Quality Professional and has been a ...