This morning Box announced a number of feature improvements to its file-storage platform, as well as corporate moves that the company says will help its customers better manage their employees use of the product. As a company, Box wants enterprises of scale to adopt its technologies. Those contracts are lucrative but come with an implicit feature list: […]
Posted on December 12th, 2013 by admin
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Verizon is indeed going to acquire EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network founded in 2008 that has grown to be one of the fastest-growing Internet companies in the world. TechCrunch’s Ryan Lawler reported the deal was in the works on Sunday, and a new press release from Verizon confirms it, with a projected finalization date […]
Posted on December 9th, 2013 by admin
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At 14 years old, SurveyMonkey, the online feedback and survey company, is “not quite a startup anymore,” says its CEO David Goldberg. But the last year has marked what you might call a second childhood of sorts for the Silicon Valley company: a large raise of funds (some $850 million, all secondary); a launch of […]
Posted on December 6th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research says that more than half of the enterprises in North America and Europe are implementing official BYOD programs so that companies do not find themselves with hundreds of security leaks because workers are demanding better smartphones and tablets, and simply bring their own in when all they get from IT are three year-old […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2013 by admin
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In a press conference today, Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy said that CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos believes AWS could be the company’s largest business. Amazon reported $61 billion in revenues for the 2012 fiscal year. The company does not report revenues for AWS but it is widely believed to be a $3.5 billion business and […]
Posted on November 17th, 2013 by admin
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Four steps that must be taken to determine if a business continuity plan is worth the investment are listed below. This will allow the organization to determine real dollar cost per downtime event, calculate acceptable data recovery points and return to operation goal. This data will then allow an organization to align itself to a […]
Posted on November 6th, 2013 by admin
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Software provider New Relic is extending its system administrator tools for monitoring the performance of applications to help business managers as well. “The data coming out of your software is transformative to your business. The answers are there, you just to need to query the data correctly and do it fast,” said New Relic CEO […]
Posted on October 27th, 2013 by admin
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Cotap, a startup that strives to be the GroupMe of the business world, has launched its mobile messaging service designed for corporate customers. The service, available as an iPhone app and later on Android, allows users to invite people into managed, group conversations. It is similar to GroupMe, the mobile messaging service that has become popular for texting with […]
Posted on October 4th, 2013 by admin
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Splunk continues to enhance its flagship machine data search engine so it can be used by business analysts and managers, in addition to its typical audience of system and network administrators. The newly released Splunks Enterprise 6 includes new capabilities to easily visualize data, as well as a framework to build Web applications based on […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2013 by admin
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Zoho has launched a service that centralizes contacts for customers, helps them share them across different groups and manage related tasks. As part of the effort to reach small business owners, the CRM company and business services provider is also letting customers set their own price after a 30-day free trial. The service is designed […]
Posted on September 25th, 2013 by admin
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