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eBay snaps up AI-powered Expertmaker to clean up its messy listings
eBay has a problem: Its website is just too damn messy, and its search capabilities aren’t powerful enough. As a result, users are forced to wade through pages and pages of listings to find the exact item they’re looking for. That could push a lot of customers to rivals like Amazon.com, Inc., which is why ...
Apple taps into SAP for more enterprise clout
Apple is looking to further its involvement in the enterprise via a new partnership with German IT giant SAP SE. The partnership will see the two firms create native apps for the iPhone and iPad that tap into SAP’s flagship HANA in-memory computing platform. There will also be a new iOS software development kit. SAP’s ...
Alibaba claims AliCloud is “one of the largest cloud providers in the world”
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud computing arm AliCloud is doing very nicely in its bid to become the AWS of Asia, reporting stunning growth of 138 percent in 2016 that saw it pull in $468 million in revenues. AliCloud said that it had more than 2.3 million customers as of March 31, 2016. Of those, ...
Dell/EMC merger: Customer impact will be minimal in the short-term, but long-term doubts remain
Huge tasks still face both Dell Inc. and EMC since the former announced it planned to acquire the latter in a $67 billion deal last October. Dell still needs to close $57 billion in financing, EMC’s shareholders need to approve the deal and so do China’s regulators. Nonetheless, both Michael Dell and EMC’s executives were ...
SmartUX Studio lets you transform legacy apps to mobile ones
Enterprises desperately want to build more mobile apps for their businesses, but many are unable to do so due to a lack of resources. Now, to help smaller enterprises solve this dilemma, a startup called PowWow Mobile has created a new platform for building apps faster, using less code. PowWow Mobile’s SmartUX Platform helps developers ...
VMware touts new feature-lite versions of NSX
VMware Inc. is hoping to squeeze a few extra dollars from its NSX offering by amping up the price tag, and offering cheaper, “feature-lite” versions of the product with less features. NSX is an offering that VMware pitches at customers wanting to create their own software-define data centers. NSX helps out in that respect by ...
The “big four” still rule the cloud as market growth surpasses 50%
The cloud isn’t all about the “big four” providers of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and IBM. After the top four, the next twenty cloud firms are growing at an average of 41 percent per year, even as they lose market share, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. That’s because the overall ...
Yet another skills gap: This time it’s containers
Containers are growing in popularity all the time, but for companies that use them it’s still a significant challenge to hire workers capable of managing them. Those revelations come from continuous app delivery firm Shippable Inc., which released its findings from a new survey of 300 software developers in order to gauge the latest trends ...
Zscaler cloud-based Private Access tool provides an alternative to VPNs
Cloud security vendor Zscaler Inc. is hoping to unseat the Virtual Private Network (VPN) in the enterprise world. Traditionally, organizations provide remote access to corporate apps via a VPN in order to protect their networks from remote attacks, but VPNs can be a tricky beast to use. Zscaler’s alternative is something called Zscaler Private Access, ...
Google’s Cloud Dataflow stomps on Apache Spark in new benchmark tests
Google will be feeling pretty pleased with itself after its Cloud Dataflow service outperformed the immensely popular Apache Spark data processing engine in a recent benchmark study carried out by Mammoth Data Inc. There’s a caveat of course, because Google hired Mammoth Data to carry out the Benchmarking Google Cloud Dataflow study on its data ...