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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 suite of applications, which take a big data analytics approach to understanding system ...
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 Group is the largest privately owned health services provider in Australia, with 53 ...
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 provides a secure environment both in the cloud and on-premises for digital teams ...
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 is wildly popular with developers. A companion open-source tool called Fli lets developers ...
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 strengthened to 67 percent from 61 percent in the third quarter of 2015. ...
‘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 tool called Tibco Simplr that can be used to automate repetitive tasks, build ...
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 over the same quarter last year to a record $206.1 million. That was ...
OpsDataStore boosts power management, root-cause analytics
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its statistics-grounded service management suite with improved root-cause analysis and better support for Intel-based servers via integration with the chip maker’s Data Center Manager power monitoring system. OpsDataStore Uses a dynamic object model to automatically establish relationships between the items in the streams of metrics as the data is ingested (above). ...
Customer relationship management startups Emissary, Freshdesk score new funding
Investors are placing fresh bets on customer relationship management (CRM) startups, indicating that plenty of growth potential remains in a 20-year-old market. Emissary Inc. launched yesterday with a $10 million series A funding round for its proposition of connecting salespeople with former executives from companies they’re trying to reach. Founded by former Google Product Manager ...
Trifacta tackles data integration for non-big data environments
Trifacta Inc. today is announcing a version of its namesake data preparation tool designed for non-big data environments. The company, which calls the discipline it enables “data wrangling,” said Wrangler Edge is intended for use by organizations that may not have Hadoop or an enterprise data lake but that still want to do data analysis in ...
