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What you missed in Cloud: Big plans and deep pockets
Traditional information technology vendors are investing heavily to try and address the growing adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. Last week, Oracle Corp. stepped up its efforts by launching a new iteration of its infrastructure-as-a-service platform that promises to provide a competitive alternative to market leader Amazon Web Services. The database giant hopes to ...
Reports: Twitter in acquisition talks with Salesforce, Google and others
After years of buyout rumors, Twitter Inc. has been approached by several potential buyers and may receive a formal acquisition bid before long, according to a CNBC report. Anonymous insiders who leaked the news to the channel said Software as a Service (SaaS) giant Salesforce.com Inc. and Google Inc. parent Alphabet Inc. are among the ...
Cisco partners with Salesforce.com to take on Slack, Internet of Things
Three months after teaming up with IBM Corp. to deliver new communications functionality for customers, Cisco Systems Inc. has nabbed another key ally. The networking giant today announced a partnership with Salesforce.com Inc. that will similarly focus on helping users of the two companies’ products collaborate more effectively. As part of the effort, Cisco intends ...
Battery Ventures leads $16M round into time-series DB startup InfluxData
The unstructured nature of the data generated by the connected universe is only one of the operational challenges that make analyzing it so difficult. There’s also the fact that a lot of machine-generated logs must be organized based on the order of their creation to make them useful, a task InfluxData Inc. is working to ...
Syncsort promises better Hadoop transparency with new metadata features
The records inside a Hadoop cluster constitute are only part of its overall information footprint. The other portion is made up of the metadata that is produced as those records change and evolve over time, which Syncsort Inc. wants to make more accessible by launching a new log management capability for its DMX-h tool. Information ...
Twilio’s new analytics service aims to help optimize web calls
While using Twilio Inc.’s communications APIs is much easier for developers than implementing VoIP functionality from scratch, enabling long-distance calls across different devices and browsers can still be a challenge. The vendor set out to ease the task today by launching a new analytics service called Voice Insights that promises to help pinpoint the technical ...
Google buys API.AI to boost its natural language processing chops
Barely 48 hours after picking up Urban Engines Inc. for its transportation intelligence platform, Google has announced another acquisition in the analytics space: API.AI Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of natural language processing technology for developers. The outfit’s flagship offering is a cloud-based chatbot building service that promises to automate most of the heavy lifting ...
Akamai’s new image loading service aims to speed up media-heavy sites
With HTTP Archive data indicating that images take up two-thirds of the average webpage’s storage footprint, it’s no surprise they’re such a big focus for content delivery providers. Akamai Technologies Inc. is doubling down today by introducing a new optimization option that promises to make sites with a lot of visual content perform better. Image ...
Checkmarx wants to help developers write more secure code
An organization’s security isn’t the responsibility of its IT department alone. Development teams need to be vigilant too and take measures to rid their software of vulnerabilities, a requirement that Checkmarx Ltd. wants to help address with the new training service that it unveiled this morning. AppSec Coach, as the tool is called, provides a ...
Network security giant Infoblox goes private in $1.6B deal
A few hours after news broke that traffic monitoring provider CyberFlow Analytics Inc. is being sold, the network protection industry is marking another major buyout. Infoblox Inc. announced that it has accepted a $1.6 million acquisition bid from Vista Equity Partners and will once again become a private company. The deal marks the latest in ...
