McDonald’s is working with law enforcement authorities after malicious hackers broke into the company’s databases and stole information about an undetermined number of the fast food chain’s customers. The data, which customers had provided voluntarily, doesn’t include Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers, nor any sensitive financial information. The limited information stolen included what was […]
Posted on December 14th, 2010 by admin
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Dell has officially announced that it aims to pick up Compellent, a provider of storage solutions with automated data management features for enterprise and cloud environments, for $27.75 per share in cash for each share of Compellent (a total equity value of approximately $960 million). The aggregate purchase price is about $820 million, net of […]
Posted on December 14th, 2010 by admin
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IT consulting firm Atos Origin won the Database Partner of the Year award at the 2010 OPN France Partner Specialization Awards. The award honours the firm's innovative services and solutions based on Oracle's products. Atos Origin is an international leader in IT services, providing hi-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed operations to deliver […]
Posted on December 10th, 2010 by admin
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In its attempt to bring social streams into the enterprise, Salesforce is taking its Chatter messaging service and making it freemium. Unlike most freemium services which start out free, and then add on premium features for a price, Salesforce is going in the opposite direction. Chatter started out as an additional $15/user/month service, but perhaps […]
Posted on December 8th, 2010 by admin
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Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the launch of Database.com, the company’s enterprise database built for the cloud. Database.com is essentially and plug-and-play storage infrastructure for any developers, using any language, platform or device. […]
Posted on December 8th, 2010 by admin
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We spent yesterday at Salesforce’s first ever hackathon, called Cloudstock, which aimed to spur innovative uses of cloud-based APIs. Developers were given a choice of over 20 different platforms they could build off of including; Force.com, Twilio, LinkedIn, Amazon Web Services, Google, and more. Hacks ranged from an image resizing tool for Salesforce apps to […]
Posted on December 7th, 2010 by admin
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Juniper Networks this morning announced it has acquired Altor Networks, a provider of virtualization security technology, for $95 million in cash. Juniper says the acquisition will allow the company to deliver a robust, integrated security architecture that protects both physical and virtual systems. Altor, which has long been a Juniper technology partner, offers a hypervisor-based […]
Posted on December 7th, 2010 by admin
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FleetMatics, a Boston-based provider of GPS tracking applications for commercial fleets, this morning announced that it has closed a massive $68 million growth equity financing round. Late-stage investor Institutional Venture Partners invested in conjunction with Investcorp Technology Partners, FleetMatics’ majority owner. New World Ventures also participated as a new investor. IVP’s General Partner Sandy Miller […]
Posted on December 6th, 2010 by admin
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SAP certified partner Taulia, provider of a “Dynamic Discounting” platform for corporations using SAP, announced this morning that it raised $3.2 million in financing from new investors ncluding Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. Previous backers such as The Angels’ Forum also participated in the round. The company says the freshly secured capital will be used […]
Posted on December 6th, 2010 by admin
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BMC Software has acquired GridApp Systems, which specializes in the automation of cloud database provisioning, patching and administration. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. With the purchase, BMC is expanding its current offering of application, server, network and client configuration management to include database automation. GridApp’s solution is designed to reduce the cost and […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by admin
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