Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is a charismatic guy for someone who leads a company that serves the stodgy world of the enterprise. He’s so well-recognized that he was put on stage this past week in Las Vegas to give a keynote at CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics show. Let me say that again: an […]
Posted on January 14th, 2013 by admin
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Mirantis has raised $10 million in a round led by Intel Capital to extend its OpenStack services for companies seeking to build out a cloud infrastructure. Dell Ventures and WestSummit Capital also participated in the Series A investment. Mirantis calls the funding “growth capital” and plans to use part of it to expand into China where […]
Posted on January 13th, 2013 by admin
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ScaleArc has raised $12.3 million in a Series C round led by Accel Partners for its database infrasrtucture software. Trinity Ventures and Nexus Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total investment to $18.3 million. ScaleArc gives visibility into an application’s database and helps solve the scaling issues that plague SaaS providers, […]
Posted on January 13th, 2013 by admin
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Host Analytics has raised $17 million in a Series D round to expand its enterprise performance management technology. All of the existing investors participated in the round, including Advanced Technology Ventures, Trident Capital, StarVest Partners and Next World Capital. The funding brings Host Analytics total investment to $40.7 million. Host Analytics gives the finance and […]
Posted on January 12th, 2013 by admin
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If you’re an avid Dropbox user, then you have probably figured out that the site and service aren’t working properly right now. As in, not at all, but it’s not completely “down.” A lot of tech professionals use the service to share files with distributed teams. It’s a lifesaver when you aren’t sitting right next […]
Posted on January 12th, 2013 by admin
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If you’re an avid Dropbox user, then you have probably figured out that the site and service aren’t working properly right now. As in, not at all, but it’s not completely “down.” A lot of tech professionals use the service to share files with distributed teams. It’s a lifesaver when you aren’t sitting right next […]
Posted on January 11th, 2013 by admin
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For years, Microsoft has been the king of the world’s offices, as its own Office productivity suite dominating the market. If you’ve worked in an office in the last 20 years — preferably at one with computers — chances are good that you’ve used (or at least familiar with) Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook. But, […]
Posted on January 11th, 2013 by admin
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SAP HANA now serves as the core of the business software giant’s strategy with the news today that SAP Business Suite will run on the real-time, in-memory database technology. Customers will have the option to run on HANA or keep what they currently use. SAP Business Suite has lagged to some degree through its dependence on traditional […]
Posted on January 10th, 2013 by admin
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GitHub had another outage this afternoon. This is getting old. How can GitHub be taken seriously in the enterprise with these kinds of outages? GitHub started showing exceptions at 3:14 PST. By 3:20, GitHub announced on its status page that a database spike caused the service to have a major outage. It makes no difference […]
Posted on January 10th, 2013 by admin
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Making what he said was his first trip to the Consumer Electronics Show since he was a teenager, Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage today to talk about the big shifts in the technology industry. Benioff, who was interviewed by MediaLink’s Michael Kassan, noted that CES is traditionally a show for things […]
Posted on January 9th, 2013 by admin
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