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SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

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SAP announced today at its Sapphire customer conference it was making the SAP Leonardo Blockchain service generally available. The latter is a cloud service to help companies build applications based on digital ledger-style technology. Gil Perez, senior vice president for product and innovation and head of digital customer initiatives at SAP, says most of the […] Continue reading SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service→

Microsoft program provides a decade of updates for Windows IoT devices

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If you have an essential Internet of Things device running Windows 10 IoT Core Service, you don’t want to be worried about security and OS patches over a period of years. Microsoft wants to help customers running these kinds of devices with a new program that guarantees 10 years of updates. The idea is that […] Continue reading Microsoft program provides a decade of updates for Windows IoT devices→

SAP gives CRM another shot with with new cloud-based suite

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce. It has a bunch other enterprise players like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP vying for position. SAP decided to take another shot today when it released a new business products suite called SAP C/4HANA. (Ya, catchy I know.) SAP C/4HANA pulls […] Continue reading SAP gives CRM another shot with with new cloud-based suite→

Egnyte releases one-step GDPR compliance solution

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Egnyte has always had the goal of protecting data and files wherever they live, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Today, the company announced a new feature to help customers comply with GDPR privacy regulations that went into effect in Europe last week in a straight-forward fashion. You can start by simply telling Egnyte that […] Continue reading Egnyte releases one-step GDPR compliance solution→

How Yelp (mostly) shut down its own data centers and moved to AWS

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Back in 2013, Yelp was a 9-year old company built on a set of internal systems. It was coming to the realization that running its own data centers might not be the most efficient way to run a business that was continuing to scale rapidly. At the same time, the company understood that the tech […] Continue reading How Yelp (mostly) shut down its own data centers and moved to AWS→

Helm moves out of Kubernetes’ shadow to become stand-alone project

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Helm is an open source project that enables developers to create packages of containerized apps to make installation much simpler. Up until now, it was a sub-project of Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool, but as of today it is a stand-alone project. Both Kubernetes and Helm are projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing […] Continue reading Helm moves out of Kubernetes’ shadow to become stand-alone project→

Box acquires Progressly to expand workflow options

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Box announced today that it has purchased Progressly, a Redwood City startup that focuses on workflow. All 12 Progressly employees will be joining Box immediately. They did not disclose the purchase price. If you follow Box, you probably know the company announced a workflow tool in 2016 called Box Relay along with a partnership with […] Continue reading Box acquires Progressly to expand workflow options→

Nvidia launches colossal HGX-2 cloud server to power HPC and AI

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Nvidia launched a monster box yesterday called the HGX-2, and it’s the stuff that geek dreams are made of. It’s a cloud server that is purported to be so powerful it combines high performance computing with artificial intelligence requirements in one exceptionally compelling package. You know you want to know the specs, so let’s get […] Continue reading Nvidia launches colossal HGX-2 cloud server to power HPC and AI→

Salesforce keeps revenue pedal to the metal with another mammoth quarter

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Salesforce just keeps on growing revenue. In another remarkable quarter, the company announced 3.01 billion in revenue for Q1 2019 with no signs of slowing down. That puts the CRM giant on a run rate of over $12 billion with the company’s most optimistic projections suggesting it could go even higher. It’s also the first time […] Continue reading Salesforce keeps revenue pedal to the metal with another mammoth quarter→

Movable Ink now lets developers build custom email applets

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Movable Ink has always prided itself on providing marketers with a way to deliver highly customized emails, but today the company decided to take that one step further. It announced an SDK that enables developers to build custom applets to add their own unique information to any email. The company has always seen itself as […] Continue reading Movable Ink now lets developers build custom email applets→