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IBM gets into the digital marketing business with first agency buy
Amid rumors that it’s preparing to lay off thousands of workers from its professional services business, IBM Corp. is bolstering the struggling division with the purchase of its first digital marketing outfit. Resource/Ammirati Inc. was up until the acquisition one of the biggest independent agencies in the U.S., with more than 300 workers across three locations. The ...
Office Online now lets users collaborate across file lockers
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella’s ongoing effort to open up his company’s products to the broader technology ecosystem is starting to pay dividends for users. Office Online this week received new integrations that make it possible to collaborate in real-time on documents kept inside Box, Dropbox and several other third party alternatives to Redmond’s own OneDrive. ...
BloomReach gets $56M to personalize the online buying experience
For BloomReach Inc., the 64 percent decrease in venture investments that the online marketing segment witnessed between 2014 and 2015 is little more than just another industry statistic. The sales optimization provider this morning announced the completion of a hefty $56 million funding round that will help maintain its growth amid the slowdown that the ...
World’s top carriers line up behind Facebook’s open hardware initiative
Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG are among the six leading carriers that joined the Open Compute Project this week in a bid to extend its mission of improving data center efficiency to the telecommunications sector. Their work will be coordinated under the umbrella of a dedicated sub-program with the dual objective ...
Panzura taps Google Maps to simplify life for storage admins
The latest example of consumer technology finding use behind the firewall comes from Panzura Inc., which has turned to Google Maps in order to ease the maintenance of geographically distributed storage environments powered by its file system. The new CloudFS Console introduced for the platform today layers operational data over charts from the location service ...
Report: Thousands to be let go from IBM’s services biz this week
It’s shaping up to be a tough week for the rank and file of the enterprise technology world. A day after VMware Inc. confirmed the 800 layoffs insiders have been warning about since last week, a new leak from IBM Corp. suggests that the employees at its Global Services (GTS) business should start bracing themselves ...
Microsoft launches on-premise Azure Stack into preview
The competition among the world’s top cloud providers is moving behind the firewall. The latest escalation came this morning after Microsoft Corp. debuted the first public release of Azure Stack, a piece of software that enables organizations to replicate its infrastructure-as-a-service platform in their private data centers. The operating conditions of an on-premise implementation are the ...
Report: Public cloud market to pass $200 billion this year
While overall technology spending in the enterprise is only set to rise about 0.6 percent this year, Gartner Inc. expects demand for cloud services to increase 16.5 percent during the same period, or more than 25 times faster. The newly released forecast puts the market on track to surpass the symbolic $200 billion mark by ...
Stealthy Israeli startup FireGlass nets $20M to provide silver bullet against online threats
Several of the most notable investors in the cybersecurity scene have lined up behind a secretive Israeli startup called FireGlass Ltd. that is on a mission to change the way organizations defend against hacking. Its site is scrubbed of any details that might give away the trick before the scheduled launch of its offering at ...
Microsoft makes its deep learning framework accessible for developers
Barely a week seems to go by nowadays without Microsoft Corp. making some gesture of support towards the developer community. Last Tuesday, the software giant pledged to increase funding for cloud projects that promote the public good, and now it’s expanding the range of applications where its open-source deep learning framework can be put to ...
