Okta raises $75m in funding as cloud identity management leader is valued as $1.2 bn

Cloud security vendor Okta has raised $75 million from existing shareholders, taking its market valuation at $1.2 billion. A specialist in identity and mobility management, Okta raised the finance from…

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Make your Sunday League team as ‘smart’ as Borussia Dortmund with IoT

How, exactly, is IoT changing competitive sports? And how might you, reader, go about making your own modest Sunday League team as ‘smart’ as the likes of AC Milian, Borussia…

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Webinar | How to integrate the cloud into your existing IT estate

All businesses are being encouraged to move to the cloud or ‘go digital’, but the reality is that most IT departments have a slew of applications and an established estate.…

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IBM signs cloud development agreement with ANZ bank

ANZ has signed a five-year, A$450 million (£208 million) strategic agreement with IBM, the centrepiece of which is the establishment of a cloud-based Innovation Lab based on IBM’s Bluemix cloud…

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VMware opens up at VMworld San Francisco

Virtualisation pioneer VMware has unveiled a raft of new services tailored for hybrid cloud services and open systems at its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. VMware announced the launch…

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Dell tells VMworld how it simplified the cloud

Dell claims it will demystify the cloud for enterprise buyers with a raft of new products and services, which it unveiled at VMworld in San Francisco. A new release of…

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Cloud strategy still tentative for many UK corporations – study

IT managers and CIOs should not feel they’ve missed the boat as the majority of enterprises have only just started their cloud journey, according to a new enterprise study. If…

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SAP announces improvements to cloud platform and Vora analytics software

SAP has released new software that it claims will make analytics easier for users of open source Hadoop software. The SAP HANA Vora is a new in-memory query engine that…

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Mounting frustration with cloud technology is stifling adoption – research

An influential group of senior business executives is being disillusioned by experiences with cloud hosted applications, according to new research. The proportions, though relatively low, are growing as cloud disenchantment…

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Cloud vendor Apttus raises $108m to fund new services and features

Cloud software vendor Apttus has raised a further $108 million to fund the growth of its quote and renewals management business. The new investment comes only seven months after it…

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