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What you missed in Big Data: Bringing analytics to the corporate masses
Vendors are investing heavily to address the growing demand for analytics functionality in the enterprise. As part of this push, Salesforce.com Inc. last week acquired a startup called BeyondCore Inc. that specializes in extracting meaning from large databases with upwards of millions of records. Its namesake business intelligence platform works by mapping out the mathematical ...
What you missed in Cloud: Hosted Databases and chatbots
As enterprises continue to move more workloads and data outside the firewall, cloud providers are stepping up their efforts to monetize the trend. Google set the pace last week by launching a speedy new iteration of its managed relational store that promises to provide seven times better performance than its successor. The web giant also ...
Amazon Workspaces can now accommodate road warriors and part-time employees
In the fiercely competitive cloud market, introducing new functionality and price cuts on a regular basis is a requisite to staying on top of the market. Amazon Inc. ticked the box this week by adding a new billing option to its Workspaces virtual desktop service that allows organizations to rent instances by the hour. While ...
Report: Google has quietly acquired mobile development startup Apportable
Following the example of Microsoft Corp. and other top rivals, Google is stepping up its efforts to court the developer community. Anonymous sources told VentureBeat yesterday that the search giant had secretly bought a startup called Apportable Inc. as part of this push sometime last year. The tipsters further claim that the transaction was an ...
Cisco’s new Meeting Server lets workers communicate across rivaling services
In parallel with its efforts to streamline operations and trim low-growth divisions, Cisco Systems Inc. is increasing its focus on areas like collaboration that present promising new revenue opportunities. As part of this effort, the company today introduced a new offering called Meeting Server that allows workers to contact one another even if they’re using communications products ...
Microsoft releases PowerShell on GitHub to court Linux and Mac users
A decade after its initial release, PowerShell is going open-source. Microsoft Corp. this morning published the code for the popular Windows configuration management tool on its GitHub page along with ports for Linux and Mac. The move is part of an ongoing effort by CEO Satya Nadella to target multi-platform use cases that started with ...
Nutanix brings its software to Cisco’s UCS servers without official backing
The competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure market is taking on new dimensions. Nutanix Inc., which was recently named as the top provider in this segment by Forrester Research Inc., is making its management stack available on Cisco Systems Inc.’s UCS servers today without its official blessing. In fact, the networking giant is actively working to ...
FullContact buys business networking startup Conspire to supercharge its address book
A week after securing a $25 million funding round from investors, FullContact Inc. is already putting the capital to use. The address book management specialist today acquired a fellow startup called Conspire Inc. that runs a professional social network designed to help workers make new connections. Its value proposition is similar to LinkedIn’s on the ...
EventBoard raises $13M to make office meetings less of a chore
Organizing an office meeting is simple enough in theory, but it’s much easier said than done when multiple teams need to share a limited number of conference rooms. A startup called EventBoard Inc. hopes to take the hassle out of the task with a cloud-based scheduling tool that attracted $13.5 million in funding from investors ...
LinkedIn releases {py}gradle to simplify code builds
While Python developers have access to numerous packages and frameworks that can help ease their work, there are few options out there when it comes to build automation software. The default choice is a community-developed plugin known as Setuptools that doesn’t lend itself particularly well to large-scale application projects. Fortunately, LinkedIn Inc. has come up ...