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Amazon beats out rivals on cloud availability for second year in a row
There is a reason why Amazon Inc. has been able to maintain a stronghold over the public cloud for the better part of the past decade. In addition to boasting the broadest selection of capabilities and lowest prices of any major provider, Jeff Bezos’ firm apparently also offers the best service availability rates, according to the ...
BI startup Sisense raises $50 million to disrupt SAP
Eighteen months and several hundred customer wins after its last funding round, Sisense Inc. has raised another $50 million from investors to shift into the next gear of growth. The startup hopes to achieve that through a classic combination of increased marketing investment and the development of new features for its namesake analytics platform. The software ...
Amazon fires up two new data centers in South Korea
Barely a week into 2016, Amazon Inc. has already fulfilled its first New Year’s resolution. The pair of South Korean data centers that the retail-turned-cloud-giant promised to customers last November are now fully operational, complete with a direct connectivity option courtesy of local provider KINX. The ability to access Amazon’s infrastructure through a private link that ...
Cloudability assimilates DataHero’s visualization tech to illuminate IT spending
It’s not only large incumbent vendors that are turning to acquisitions in an effort to catch up with the rapid evolution of enterprise technology requirements. Cloudability Inc. marked its third buyout in as many quarters this morning after announcing the purchase of a fellow startup called DataHero Inc. that offers a hosted dashboarding tool for ...
IoT startup Greenwave raises $60 million for its managed data platform
The stakes are growing higher in the race to address the fragmentation of the connected universe. Up-and-comer Greenwave Systems Inc. announced the completion of a hefty $60 million investment this morning that will go toward boosting the adoption of its platform-as-a-service offering, which aims to simplify the collection of data from the numerous disparate devices that ...
AWS opens a new front in its cloud war with WorkMail launch
Barely five days since the calendar reset, Amazon Inc. is already marking its first major product launch of 2016. The new iteration of WorkMail now generally available from its U.S. and Ireland data center packs a host of improvements over the early version that was previewed to customers last January, including compatibility with the desktop ...
Compuware launches DevOps initiative to revive mainframe programming
A lot has changed at Compuware Corp. since its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC for $2.4 billion last year. The mainframe software maker drastically cut release cycles as part of an internal streamlining effort meant to improve the returns of the new owners and now hopes to spread the benefits of faster ...
EMC plans major layoffs in $850 million restructuring
While most of its employees were away celebrating the turn of the year, EMC Corp.’s legal team spent last Thursday filing the paperwork for an $850 million restructuring initiative that is set to cost many of the holidaymakers their jobs. The layoffs aim to ease the logistical burden on the storage giant ahead of its ...
Nokia receives final green light for $17BN Alcatel-Lucent takeover
Four days after New York’s Eve, corks are popping once again at Nokia Corporation. The Finnish telecommunications giant this morning received the final regulatory authorization needed to complete its $17 billion takeover of French rival Alcatel-Lucent SA in a milestone that caps eight months of tedious bureaucratic wrangling. The approval of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France’s ...
Google to open $600M green Tennessee data center as part of clean energy push
The Southeastern United States is emerging at the center of Google Inc.’s efforts to remove its reliance on fossil fuels. A year after announcing plans to open a new Alabama data center powered entirely by renewable energy, the search giant has received approval to construct a twin campus 200 miles to the north in neighboring ...
