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DataStax Inc., developer of an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, has acquired DataScale Inc. and will launch a fully managed cloud version of its DataStax Enterprise product. Terms weren’t disclosed. DataScale is one of a handful of cloud-based management …
Analytics help app developer conceive of new possibilities
Desperately trying to get pregnant? There’s an app for that. Actually, there are many apps for that. Type “period tracker” into Google Play and you’ll uncover more than 100 programs that help women track their menstrual cycles and dispense all kinds of …
Cloud network helps health care provider reel in remote-office costs
From an information technology perspective, small and midsized businesses with multiple locations get it in the neck. They often need to keep an arsenal of technology in place for protection and compliance reasons, even when the staff size in far-flung offices is …
AppDynamics ties code to business value with upgrade to App iQ suite
AppDynamics Inc., the richly funded performance monitoring company, is aiming to take information technology’s value up a notch with the release of a new monitoring engine that connects business results to operational analytics. Business iQ is the fifth component in the company’s App iQ …
How one health care firm cut hosting costs in half with cloud scheduling
Would you spend $99 per month to save $15,000? That’s effectively what Tristar Medical Group did. The company deployed a cloud scheduling tool to nearly halve cloud hosting costs by automatically shutting down Amazon Web Services incidences when they weren’t needed. Tristar Medical …
Axway aims integration platform at improved customer experience
European data integration vendor Axway Software SA has introduced Amplify, a data integration and application program interface management platform that it said enables organizations to quickly develop new applications and expose data and processes by combining data from a wide variety of sources. Amplify …
ClusterHQ offers developers GitHub-like data repository
ClusterHQ Inc. is attacking a critical shortcoming of container technology – statelessness – with two new container data management products intended for use by application developers. The company likens its new FlockerHub hosted data management repository to GitHub, the repository hosting service that …
Apptio handily beats forecasts in first quarterly earnings report
Apptio Inc. reported its first quarterly earnings results as a public company, and analysts cheered. Total revenues of $40.6 million were up 26 percent from the third quarter of 2015, and quarterly losses narrowed to $4.5 million from $7.4 million. Gross margins …
‘IFTTT for work’: Tibco debuts personal automation tool
If you’ve ever used the personal automation suite IFTTT (If This Then That), then you have a head start on understanding Tibco Software Inc.’s new take on personal automation. The middleware giant today is introducing what it calls a personal automation software-as-a-service …
Tableau shares plunge as third-quarter revenues miss forecast
Still struggling to recover from a fourth-quarter 2015 earnings disappointment that sent its shares down more than 50 percent in a single day, Tableau Software Inc. again missed the mark today. The data analytics and visualization software company reported that third quarter revenues rose 21 percent …