December 20, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
Posted on December 21st, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft has been adding firepower to its Windows Azure cloud platform to compete against the likes of Google, Amazon and Dropbox and Box to attract enterprise users to create, host and distribute data around the world. In the latest development, it is launching the Cloud OS Network, a group of some 25 service providers and […]
Posted on December 15th, 2013 by admin
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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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Talend, an open-source data integration company based in Los Altos with offices in Paris, has raised $40 million from Bpifrance and Iris Capital with participation from existing investor Silver Lake Sumeru. Talend will use the investment to pursue an IPO and be more aggressive in its product roadmap, particularly with a focus on Hadoop technologies. In total, Talend has now raised $101.6 […]
Posted on December 11th, 2013 by admin
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Host Analytics has launched a new platform to move Excel models into a cloud service that allows users to take spreadsheet data and reuse it for other purposes without manual intervention. The new platform, AirliftXL, is built on what the company calls an Application Transformation Engine (ATE), which parses complex spreadsheet data. It allows users […]
Posted on November 26th, 2013 by admin
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Big data analytics has given large enterprises a way of analysing historical and real-time data to monitor their business’ performance, and to better predict what might happen next. Now, a startup out of central Europe called Futurelytics is hoping to be one of the leaders in the third piece of the big data puzzle: prescriptive […]
Posted on November 11th, 2013 by admin
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October 29, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
Posted on November 4th, 2013 by admin
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When free app Foursquare announced an injection of $41 million from investors earlier this year, CEO and founder Dennis Crowley described how the new funds would help the mobile search and location-sharing platform move away from its perception as a simple “check-in app” and “get closer to being able to prove that there’s a real […]
Posted on October 14th, 2013 by admin
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The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it’s gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition: Familiar, a private photo and video sharing service, has been bought by Evidence.com, a division of Taser. With Taser probably best known for its eponymous […]
Posted on October 13th, 2013 by admin
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