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Sales automation vendor Apttus lands $41M investment from Salesforce Ventures
The process of converting leads into paying customers takes up much of the modern marketer’s time and effort, but the work hardly ends there. Sorting out the logistical details of closing a deal can prove almost as taxing when large numbers are involved, a challenge that Salesforce.com hopes to elevate with its latest investment. The ...
Earnings shed new light on competitive lines in the public cloud
The latest round of earnings reports in the public cloud reveals that the balance of power remains largely unchanged among the top providers, but the competitive lines are being redrawn as the emphasis continues to shift beyond infrastructure. That’s better for some than for others. With its dominant email service and a complementary productivity suite ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop no longer the only game in town
Microsoft managed to momentarily steal the analytics limelight from Hadoop last week after a new report revealed that it’s planning to launch a cloud-based alternative to the batch processing platform using technology that’s been used internally for several years with great success. Some 5,000 Microsoft engineers rely on a massive implementation of Cosmos, as the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Shifting rivalries
The competitive lines of the public cloud shifted considerably last week as a number of major players repositioned to address their new priorities. VMware made the biggest splash after striking an unexpected alliance with Google to bring four of the latter’s most strategic services into the enterprise. The deal is notable because the two firms ...
Why buying Oracle’s expensive appliances made sense for Cognizant | #datacenter
With the rise of cloud services, it has become rather difficult to justify buying a traditional on-premise appliance when the same functionality is available from an outside provider at a fraction of the cost. For many smaller companies, the refrigerator-sized systems that the likes of Oracle make their living selling aren’t even on the table ...
Datadog bites off $31 million to grow universal monitoring service
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud management startups shows no sign of abating. Following closely behind a series of investments in cross-provider security vendors, Datadog Inc. has landed $31 million in an oversubscribed round of funding to drive the adoption of its multi-platform monitoring service. The five-year-old outfit promises to provide a complete view ...
SimpliVity wants to unwind IT’s feedback loop of complexity | #VTUG
Approaching infrastructure in terms of its building blocks raises several major challenges for practitioners, not the least of which is accommodating change. Managing the individual pieces is already difficult enough as it is, but when it comes to moving something around or replacing it, the amount of time and effort needed to keep everything in ...
Amazon launches WorkMail to reach deeper into the office
Amazon is continuing to expand its cloud empire into more parts of the enterprise with a new email service geared specifically toward knowledge workers. The launch matches its two biggest rivals on an important office productivity front as the competition shifts beyond pricing to functionality. The retail-turned-cloud-giant has never had any trouble keeping up with the ...
The green side of the software-defined data center
Born-on-the-Web companies have already initiated a massive industry-wide shift toward virtualization and highly scalable open source platforms, but they’re also have an impact in a less-noticed area: power efficiency. Data centers are among the biggest electricity consumers on the grid, accounting for roughly three percent of energy demand in the US as of 2013. That ...
Forrester: HP a top supplier for private clouds in China
While it hasn’t made too big of a name for itself in the public cloud, the soon-to-split HP is a force to be reckoned with on the global map when it comes to private implementations, according to a new report from Forrester Research. That’s good news for the company as it comes under growing competition ...
