Salesforce Expands Data Analytics to Next Generation Business Apps

In many popular consumer applications a user can take immediate action if he has obtained important information from large amounts of data. For business applications, it appears that, directly taking…

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Google launches Dataproc after successful beta trials

Google has announced that its big data analysis tool Dataproc is now on general release. The utility, which was one of the factors that persuaded Spotify to choose Google’s Cloud…

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Box And Salesforce Release New Developer Tools

“Solutions from Box and Salesforce are helping enterprises move to the cloud, scale their business, and deepen their relationships with customers, partners and developers,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO…

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nGenx nWorkspace Application Catalog Grows To 1,800

NGenx announced that the catalog of cloud applications accessible through the nWorkspacesoftware now surpasses 1,800. The nGenx nFinity nWorkspace is a Workspace-as-a-Service solution that allows a consistent look and feel…

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Spotify shifts all music from data centres to Google Cloud

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it is to switch formats for storing tunes for customers and is copying all the music from its data centres onto the Google’s…

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Oracle Triggers an Avalanche of 24 Cloud Services to Compete with Amazon

The Cloud represents a market where Oracle wants to win. The 24 services launched by the database leader include all the tools companies need to conduct their operations in the…

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Dell launches new backup and recovery services that straddle the cloud and the client

Dell has announced a programme of new data protection initiatives to protect systems, apps and data that straddle private premise computers and the cloud. There are four main strands to…

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IBM Adds New Cloud Data Services To Bluemix

IBM announced that is has added over 25 new service to its Cloud Data Services portfolio for developers and data scientists that help to move, analyze and build data in…

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Salesforce quarterly figures prove cloud industry resistant to IT downturn

Salesforce’s latest quarterly figures have reversed the conventional logic of valuing cloud company stock, according to stock markets reaction. Before the cloud giant’s latest figures were released, many Wall Street…

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Major IT Players Form R Consortium to Strengthen Data Analysis

The Linux Foundation announced the formation ofR Consortium, with the intention of strengthening technical and user communities around the R language, the open source programming language for statistical data analysis.…

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