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VMware Launches its Own Salesforce
As I was watching John Furrier’s interview with Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang at SAP’s Sapphire event last night, he brought up the new wave of enterprise executives, all waving around their iPads as tech candy. True enough, iPads are becoming a common accessory amongst the corporate elite, and as this trickles down to every ...
New Relic Adds Real Time User Monitoring on Web Apps
When you launch a web application, one of the most important things you’ll need to know is how users interact with your site. This type of analytics has been highly sought after for years, with countless products evolving since the early days of the Internet. From heat maps to browser caching, data collection methods around ...
SAP’s Mobile and Social Enterprise Future
Before the SAPphire event even got going today, we had our suspicions that mobility and data analytics was going to be central to this year’s conference. Right out the gate, SAP confirmed our expectations, with a keynote speech driving the annual event’s focus around the future of mobility and SaaS. Of the many industry experts sitting in ...
SAPphire 2011 Expectations: Mobility, Analytics & Business Intelligence
The annual SAPphire event has just started, and we’re as anxious as any to see what the company and its partners have in store. From early rumblings around the event, mobile is a huge area of importance regarding cloud convergence and the future of enterprise. Business intelligence, which was an important topic for last year’s ...
SAP Teams with Dell, Expands Cloud Computing at SAPphire 2011
SAP’s Sapphire conference is getting underway today, with heady expectations for its mobile initiatives, along with some announcements around its prominent Unwired Platform. It’s gained a good amount of attention in the mobile sector, with its Business ByDesign also being an early point of discussion for event attendees. Any new products announced at the conference ...
EMC’s Chuck Hollis Discusses Hadoop, Project Lightening and Human Capital in the Cloud
Chuck Hollis, the VP CTO for Global Marketing at EMC, has become somewhat of a celebrity in his own right, launching a blog and engaging the community around cloud computing, innovation, and his company’s long term goals. A favorite at theCUBE, Hollis always seems to have time to drop by for a chat, discussing EMC’s ...
WOT Makes Facebook Safer, Warns of Malicious Links Before It’s Too Late
Facebook has gotten pretty spammy over the years, nearly as junked up as Twitter. I can’t stand sifting through messages and alerts anymore, and it seems Facebook only makes things worse with every turn, constantly updating our profiles, message systems, etc. But one thing that’s particularly harmful to Facebook users is a malicious link, ...
Weddzilla Builds on Big Data Brides, Babies Next
Mobile apps are great at one thing in particular–contextualizing personal data. They’re able to lock in your environmental interactions, noting searches, location, travel and buying patterns, images and time stamps. This is how mobile apps become extensions of our individualized existence, and the potential behind this is quite powerful for a consumer-driven economy such as our own. ...
Akamai Taps Riverbed to Make Hybrid Cloud Seamless
When it comes to the progression of cloud computing, speed is a major factor in these days of immediacy. Akamai’s well aware of culture’s growing demand in this arena, providing cloud optimization services that focus on speed and efficiency. They’ve teamed up with Riverbed, provider of WAN optimization, for a breakthrough product, with an aim ...
Clearspring’s $20M Data Dive: Fresh Funds, Big Plans
Clearspring’s been steadily expanding on its foundation for well over a year now, so it wasn’t surprising to hear they’d raised $20 million in a Series D round of funding. Led by IVP, with participation from existing investors, the fresh infusion is slotted to continue Clearspring’s growth around big social data, something co-founder and CEO ...
