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Freshdesk enters core CRM market targeting SMB sales pros
Over the past five years, Freshdesk Inc. has built a base of more than 80,000 paid and freemium customers – and a market capitalization of more than $500 million – with a focus on customer relationship management (CRM) software for support organizations. Now it’s going after the sales professionals who make up the bulk of ...
Red Hat earnings chug along; company to acquire maker of API management tools
Red Hat Inc. delivered no big surprises on its quarterly earnings call today, but indicated that growing adoption of its OpenStack and storage offerings could accelerate its growth rate in the future. The company met analysts’ fiscal fourth-quarter earnings expectations and slightly exceeded revenue forecasts on 18 percent year-over-year growth. Red Hat slightly reduced its ...
Fictiv adds ‘subtractive’ machining to its 3-D printing service
Fictiv Inc. is bringing 3D printing just a little bit closer to the mainstream. The San Francisco-based contract prototype manufacturing firm that specializes in additive technology (also called 3-D printing), is taking its service national and has added computer numerical control (CNC) production capability to its lineup. CNC is the subtractive technology similar to that ...
Datto updates its Siris backup appliance, adds all-flash version
Cloud backup and business continuity service Datto Inc. is overhauling its flagship Siris 3 platform and adding an all-flash appliance to its on-premise lineup. The Norwalk, CT-based company already claims to perform more than 1 million backups per day in its 200-petabyte private cloud. It’s known for a snapshot capability that enables data to be ...
Survey finds DevOps practitioners pulling away from the pack
Puppet Inc.’s fifth annual State of DevOps Report, which is being released today, finds that organizations that embrace the popular form of agile programming are pulling even further ahead of those that still write code the old-fashioned way. Conducted in conjunction with DevOps Research and Assessment LLC (DORA), the global survey of 4,600 technical professionals ...
Koverse promises customers they can build a data lake in 30 days
Koverse Inc. is attacking Hadoop’s notorious complexity with a platform that it guarantees will enable users to build a useful data lake in 30 days or less. The company’s Koverse Platform Version 2.0 is built upon a patent-pending indexing engine that the company says can ingest any type of data, discover and interrogate it securely ...
‘Citizen developers’ unclog bottlenecks at maker of software for automotive dealers
One of today’s most popular solutions to the IT backlog problem is to give business users the capability to build their own applications. It’s even better when the users are the ones driving the process. At Dominion Dealer Solutions, a Virginia-based maker of software for automating automotive dealerships, an end-user development tool has become a ...
Nutanix confident as sold-out user conference opens | #NEXTConf
Investors may be asking questions about Nutanix, Inc.’s initial public offering prospects, but its strategy looks as solid as ever. As the Nutanix .NEXT conference debuts this week in Las Vegas, expect the company to unleash a flood of new product announcements – a staple at past .NEXT events – and to continue to beat ...
Oracle to Wall Street skeptics:“We’re doing just fine, thank you”
Oracle continues to baffle its critics, thanks largely to a surge in its cloud computing business. Despite a late start in cloud computing, open-source competition and, most recently, allegations that it misrepresented cloud revenues, the company again beat Wall Street sales and earnings estimates in its fourth fiscal quarter. Not that Oracle isn’t facing the ...
ContainerX ships toolset billed as ‘vSphere for containers’
ContainerX Inc. today released its multi-tenant container platform in both paid and free versions. Billed as equivalent to VMware Inc.s’ vSphere for containers, the product is intended to do for containers what dynamic resource scheduling (DRS) did for virtual machines nearly a decade ago: make them scalable, manageable and elastic. ContainerX claims to be the world’s ...
