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Salesforce.com goes embedded in mobile support push
Providing customer care on mobile devices is about to get a lot easier if Salesforce.com Inc. has its way with the new embedded implementation of its Service Cloud that debuted this morning. It’s an ambitious expansion of the native support feature that rolled out last year in what can retrospectively be seen as an effort ...
Pure Storage snatches EMC CMO Jonathan Martin as poaching lawsuit looms
The off-the-field rivalry between Pure Storage Inc. and EMC Corp. flared up again this week after the latter’s chief marketing officer became the latest of its senior executives to defect to the flash array startup. The landmark hire comes in defiance of a pending anti-poaching lawsuit designed the try and halt the transfer of talent. ...
Red Hat follows SAP into Samsung’s vertical-specific love triangle
The battle over vertical-specific functionality is heating up in the mobile universe with the announcement of a new partnership between Red Hat Inc. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. that will see the development of a series of niche business applications for Android. The move is a response to a similar agreement that IBM Corp. struck ...
Box adds programmatic governance to protect sensitive documents against hackers
The more than 45,000 organizations that keep data in Box Inc.’s hugely popular file sharing service should now have an easier time ensuring their documents meet security requirements thanks to the addition of a new governance addon that promises to provide programmatic control over access rights. It’s an extension of the automated policy enforcement functionality originally introduced last ...
AppDynamics introduces Browser Synthetic Monitoring to help enterprises stay online
Monitoring is most often discussed in the context of the backend systems and processes powering an organization’s internal operations, but it’s an equally important priority when it comes to the corporate website, which serves as a lynchpin for communications with the outside world. And in consumer-facing segments such as retail and banking, it’s a mission-critical ...
AtScale raises $7 million in funding for Hadoop-based OLAP
The scalability and cost-efficiency that make Hadoop so attractive for organizations looking to extract the long-term historical patterns hidden in their unstructured data can also come handy at a more tactical level, but repurposing a technology built for one end to another is not a trivial undertaking. That’s the challenge AtScale Inc. hopes to overcome ...
Jut comes out of stealth with its spin on Google Dataflow for DevOps
There’s no shortage of tools promising to help organizations analyze the vast quantities of data coming off their on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure, but a newly launched startup called Jut Inc. thinks that there’s room for another. Its namesake analytics service is entering public beta testing this morning with a promise to pick up where the ...
Dell injects more DevOps into its Toad database management tool
While best known for selling data center equipment and consumer electronics, Dell has also quietly established itself a leader in information management, a position that the latest changes to the toolkit that helped bring its competitive efforts this far aim to cement. The update extends its value proposition further beyond the original pitch of automating ...
Snowflake launches its cloud-based data warehouse into general availability
Half a year after exiting stealth with $26 million in funding to bring the kind of scalability that Hadoop provides for unstructured data to traditional records, Snowflake Computing Inc. is moving forward with the plan and making its cloud-based data warehouse generally available. The launch opens a new competitive front against the legacy systems where ...
Portworx exits stealth with software-defined container storage service
The number of new startups to have entered the container ecosystem recently is now up to three in so many weeks thanks to the launch of Portworx Inc., which is bringing an automated storage service to the table that promises to help accommodate stateful applications. That addresses one of the most fundamental challenges standing in ...
