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SAP Software Shows Off NFL Data as the Super Bowl Brings Attention to Sports Analytics
SAP’s latest side-project is the NFL.com Fantasy Player of the Year competition, an online dashboard that makes use of the company’s analytics technology to filter and display the stats of the league’s top players. “Fantasy football fans love stats almost as much as watching the action on the field,” said Jonathan Becher, chief marketing officer at ...
Microsoft Earnings Reflect Rise in Demand for Tablets
Microsoft’s bottom line took a hit in the fourth quarter of 2012, but the company gained in core areas, according to the financial results that the software maker disclosed yesterday. Microsoft’s net income dropped nearly four percent to $6.38 billion, or 76 a shares, from the $6.62 billion or 78 cents it delivered a year ...
Cisco Buys Mobile Software Infrastructure Startup for $475M – Is This SDN for Mobile Networks?
Cisco shelled out nearly half a billion dollars for Intucell, Israeli developer that makes management software for telecommunications companies. The company lists AT&T and several other major U.S. carriers as customers. Intucell’s self-optimizing network (SON) technology prevents dropped calls in heavily populated areas by responding to traffic shifts in real-time. If too many users are ...
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, Phone Calls and Integration
This week Puppet Labs announced that it received $30 million in funding, Panorama9 introduced a new alert system for IT departments, and Nirvanix teamed up with Intel. We also learned the specs of the upcoming Xbox 720, the cloud-powered Microsoft console that will take over the living room. Data center automation specialist Puppet Labs announced ...
ServicesMesh Buys Spot on EMC Select Catalog
ServiceMesh announced that its flagship platform is available worldwide through EMC Select, a program that makes third party solution more available for customers of the storage giant. The Santa Monica-based firm shared the good news in a release that went out this week. ServiceMesh is responsible for the Agility Platform, a DevOps abstraction layer that ...
Innovative Virtualized Storage Vendor Quadruples Sales in Q4
Five months after launching its partner program, Tintri reports that it has witnessed its revenue increase by 400 percent in the Q4. The company says that 150 new enterprises signed up in the past three months, and that its hardware now powers 30,000 virtual machines worldwide. Tintri makes ‘VM-aware’ appliances, storage arrays specifically designed to ...
MapR Analyzes 90% of the Internet Population Every Day
MapR released a list of customer wins from the past 12 months, and things are looking up. The Hadoop distributor experienced a spike in demand for its analytics software last year, especially from large consumer-facing organizations. MapR says that currently 10 of the Fortune 100 are leveraging its Hadoop distribution to gain a better understanding ...
SAP Reports Surge in Q4 Demand for Analytics, Cloud and Mobile
This morning SAP disclosed preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31. The business software maker saw sales increase by 21 percent year-over-year to €5 billion, or $6.65 billion, marking the 12th consecutive quarter of double digit revenue growth. SAP credits its strong financial performance to better-than-expected results in the EMEA and AJP ...
Puppet Labs Raises $30M from VMware
Puppet Labs, a maker of data center automation software, announced that VMware bought a $30 million stake in the company. The investment will be used to strengthen the strategic alliance between the two firms. Puppet Labs raised $46 million to date from VMware, Google Ventures, Cisco, Kleiner Perkins and several other big name venture capitalists. ...
Nimbus Joins the Hypergrowth Club
Nimbus is the third startup to have announced triple-digit gains within past week. The company, which produces speedy flash storage systems for cloud applications and databases, reported a 415 percent year-over-year sales increase in 2012. “We are delighted to have achieved this tremendous milestone,” stated Thomas Isakovich, CEO and founder of Nimbus Data. “Shipping over a petabyte of ...