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Intel offers hardware-level answer to container security challenges
Intel has become the latest vendor to throw its weight behind the push to solve the security woes of containers with the launch of a new technology that promises to address the risks currently standing in the way of widespread production use from the hardware level up. It’s the latest fruit of the internal Clear ...
Salesforce.com continues to defy gravity; investors cheer another record quarter
Unlike some of its more traditional competitors, Salesforce.com Inc. has managed to brave losses from a strengthening dollar to post record growth across all of its businesses for the first quarter. The upbeat earnings reflect continued momentum in the shift from on-premise software to cloud services among traditional enterprises. The biggest beneficiary of that trend ...
Analysis: Microsoft going with the Flow in renewed enterprise collaboration push
Microsoft has been suspiciously haphazard with its internal projects lately. First, details about the upcoming container-based version of Windows Server leaked shortly before the official reveal, and now an anonymous Twitter user has stumbled upon a page on its site that seemingly reveals the existence of an effort to develop a companion chat client for Outlook. ...
Clarabridge’s latest acquisition aims to put more analytics into customer experience management
The consolidation of the digital marketing world is continuing apace. Barely a day after the company powering some of the most well-known cloud services around entered the business of helping providers understand their customers with its first acquisition, Clarabridge Inc. has announced a purchase of its own to try to stay on top. The Virigina-based customer ...
Zuora infuses analytics into its cloud subscription platform
Cloud computing is most often discussed through the prism of the technology innovation that enables on-demand infrastructure consumption at scale, but it’s first and foremost a business model. And every business model requires a way to charge customers, which is what Zuora Inc. is trying to address with the new analytic functionality added to its ...
Google Preemptive Instances redefine infrastructure-as-a-service model (again)
Google is marking its latest round of double-digit cloud pricing cuts with the introduction of an entirely new consumption option for infrastructure-as-a-service customers that promises to bring the costs of running certain workloads even lower. Amazon started the trend a decade ago by offering massive discounts on idle capacity. Google’s new Preemptive Instances represent an ...
API mania: MuleSoft scores a massive $128 million to simplify cloud interoperability
If it seemed like the investor interest surrounding API management reached a peak after Apigee Inc. raised $87 million in its stock market debut last month, think again. MuleSoft Inc. has upped the ante this morning with the completion of a $128 million round that ought to turn up the heat for its publicly-traded rival. ...
Accel leads $18M round into “search-as-a-service” rising star Algolia
If you thought the search engine game was over, Algolia, Inc. would like to have a word. The hosted-search startup just found its way into the exclusive investment portfolio of venture capital titan Accel Partner as part of an $18.3 million funding round announced this morning. That increases Algolia’s total bankroll more than seven-fold. The ...
Skyport exits stealth to redefine data center security from the ground up
A month after raising $30 million from a group of investors that includes Intel to change the way on-premise workloads are protected, Skyport Systems Inc. is making good on its promise with the launch of a new service that puts an original twist on the traditional firewall. Included in the subscription are three separate components ...
Tableau overhauls cloud-based version of dominant data visualization platform
The shift toward the cloud is continuing apace with the launch of a major update to Tableau Software Inc.’s cloud-based implementation of its data visualization platform that promises to provide an improved experience for business workers. The biggest improvements, however, are under the hood. The way that Tableau Online 9.0 processes requests has been enhanced ...
