Monthly Archives: March 2016
Oracle Revenue Continues Slide, but Cloud Sales Improve
Oracle reported good news and not-so-good news in its Q3 2016 financial results March 15; then, its executives spent time on the earnings call...
Salesforce Field Service Lightning Gives Field Workers a Mobile Edge
Salesforce.com continues to expand the capabilities and reach of its cloud applications with the March 15 announcement of a new offering for Service Cloud...
SAP’s Digital Store Will Expand Global Reach to 100 Countries
Before it launched co-founder Hasso Plattner's landmark in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) database in December 2010, SAP's business was all about mostly anonymous but...
DataStax Survey Shows NoSQL Skills Gap, Demand for Apache Cassandra
DataStax, a provider of database software for cloud applications, announced survey results that show an increasing demand for NoSQL database experts, particularly those trained...
How Minecraft Is Helping Microsoft Advance AI
Microsoft acquired Mojang, the Swedish game company behind Minecraft, the popular block-based sandbox construction game, for a whopping $2.5 billion in 2014. As it...
Google Extends Single Sign-On Support for Hundreds of Apps
Google has added Microsoft Office 365, Facebook at Work, Box, Panorama9, Slack and several other products to the growing list of applications for which...
Stealth.com Launches Small, Water-Tight PC
Stealth.com, which specializes in industrial, rugged computers, is rolling out its latest waterproof, fanless computer designed for particularly harsh environments.The company's WPC-725F is an...
Microsoft’s Government Cloud Cleared for High-Stakes Workloads
Microsoft Azure Government, a secure cloud services suite for government agencies, is on track to be awarded FedRAMP High accreditation later this month, the...
Crate Raises $4M for New Container Database Technology
As Docker container use continues to grow, there is a need for a distributed database technology that is built for the container era, which...
Obama Warns About Dangers of Unbreakable Encryption at SXSW
Today's topics include President Barack Obama’s warnings about unbreakable encryption at SXSW, why the Cuban wireless market intrigues AT&T as Obama prepares for a...