Monday December 23, 2024

Box Pushes Its Office 365 Integration Into Beta

 This morning at its BoxWorks event, cloud storage and file management company Box announced that its previously promised integration into Office 365 is now live in beta. The company also indicated that it is working to extend its integration into Office 365’s online tools, and, if possible, to Office for iPad. On stage at the […]

Microsoft Azure dips into the NoSQL pool

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Menlo, Benioff And More Pour $35M Into Flash Virtualization Startup PernixData

 Another big funding round for the world of enterprise storage — a business that has seen a lot of disruption in the move towards cloud services and virtualization. PernixData, a one-year old company that has built a platform for flash virtualization, which helps speed up the computing performance of machines, has raised another $35 million in funding. […]

Timely Turns Your Calendar Into A Time Tracker

 One of the most important things a small business manager can do is make sure that everyone is taking on a fair share of the workload. If some are taking on a bigger share of the work than others, it can lead to hurt feelings and inefficiency. Timely is an app that hopes to make […]

LinkedIn Steps Up Its AI Play, Turns Its Contacts App Into A New Connected App

 With 40% of LinkedIn‘s 300 million users accessing the social network for professionals via mobile devices, the company has been stepping up a gear on its mobile business, adding new apps around specific experiences like job hunting. Today comes the latest development on this front, a new app called LinkedIn Connected. Designed as the next generation of its Contacts […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wades into the in-memory database wars

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft, and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without requiring changes to applications. Ellison first unveiled Oracle Database In-Memory at September’s OpenWorld conference. During a webcast Tuesday, Ellison is expected to announce […]

A master of analytics degree is the ticket — if you can get into class

The toughest part about earning a Master of Science in Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) may be deciding which job to accept. The 75 students in the class of 2014, which is nearing graduation, received, in total, 246 job offers from 55 employers. Tweet This Post

Sphinx Is A Dock That Turns Your Tablet Into A Remote Desktop Workhorse

 The Sphinx is a web-connected tablet dock that gives the user the ability to virtualize input devices — by way of a cloud platform and remote desktop integration — allowing them to plug in a mouse and keyboard and work off a tablet as if it’s a quasi desktop PC. Read More Tweet This Post

Salesforce Will Pay $690M To Expand Its SF HQ Into The New Salesforce Tower

 Salesforce unveiled plans for a new, 61-story Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco to expand its worldwide headquarters, and as part of that it’s filed an 8-K form with the SEC with the details of how much it will be investing to do so. Read More Tweet This Post

Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M

UK-based Tesco, the world’s second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online, to figure out what its customers wanted to buy. Today, Dunnhumby, the data science group that helped Tesco with that effort, which Tesco eventually acquired, […]