Why Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is (mostly) a private cloud
Adobe likes to talk about its public cloud partnerships with Microsoft and others, but it doesn’t often talk about its private cloud strategy. It’s no secret that there are plenty of good reasons for using a private data center and Adobe manages a few of these around the globe. For most businesses, opting for a private cloud comes down to cost, but for Adobe’s Advertising… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/iWDY-8IZYkk/
Sourceress raises $3.5M to find candidates that managers want without realizing it
When a company is looking for a candidate for an open role, the hiring manager is probably going to rattle off a bunch of qualifications that they’re looking for to a recruiter — and Kanjun Qiu says recruiters will probably just run with that when the manager’s requirements might not actually be so rigid. It’s that intent from the manager — the idea that the… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/k3nvoSZBskQ/
Proofpoint acquires Cloudmark for $110M in cybersecurity consolidation play
As malicious groups continue to become more sophisticated in their hacking techniques, cybersecurity efforts are attempting to expand in their reach, and that is leading to some consolidation in the field. Today, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint — which provides SaaS products to protect businesses’ email, social media and other services — announced that it would pay $110 million… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/cSqvLpUvxuE/
Salesforce and Google are the latest pals in the cloud
Salesforce and Google inked a deal today that could provide easier integration between Salesforce tools and Google’s G Suite and Google Analytics. It also named Google as a preferred cloud provider for its core services as part of its international infrastructure expansion. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/JzIgbVu8T2M/
Quip adds an App Store as it pushes toward full-blown collaboration platform
When Salesforce bought Quip, a document-based, mobile-first collaboration tool for $750 million last September, it may have seemed like an odd purchase, but Salesforce and Quip have been hard at work enhancing the product. Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, the company announced significant updates to the product designed to make it more of a central way to… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Om8Q5MT4D6U/
Salesforce to offer more customized AI with myEinstein
It’s been just over a year since Salesforce introduced Einstein, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that are designed to underlie and enhance the Salesforce product set. Today, at Dreamforce, the company’s enormous customer conference taking place this week in San Francisco, it announced myEinstein, a package of tools it created to help developers and Salesforce… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/JJTvl3kcRtE/
OpenStack’s next mission: bridging the gaps between open source projects
OpenStack, the massive open source project that provides large businesses with the software tools to run their data center infrastructure, is now almost eight years old. While it had its ups and downs, hundreds of enterprises now use it to run their private clouds and there are even over two dozen public clouds that use the project’s tools. Users now include the likes of AT&T,… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Alth2MixUnY/
Adobe and Microsoft expand partnership with Adobe Experience Manager and Dynamics 365 integration
Adobe and Microsoft expanded their continuing partnership today when they announced that they are making it easy to share data between Adobe Experience Manager, a website marketing tool and Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s CRM tool.
For a sales person that means seeing the latest sales activity and customer interactions from the company website right in the customer record. From a customer… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/5M5fW7v00KM/
Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware
Anyone who has used modern meeting software knows it’s still fraught with challenges trying to get everyone into the meeting, futzing with the hardware or software and smoothly integrating external documents like PowerPoint presentations. Cisco is trying to improve and simplify the meeting experience with voice commands, and today it introduced Cisco Spark Assistant, a voice… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/DH-6nSmsI0Y/
VMware acquires VeloCloud as it moves deeper into networking
VMware announced today that it was acquiring VeloCloud, a startup that focuses on cloud-based wide area networks (WAN), those networks that span a broad area across data centers or regions. The companies did not reveal the purchase price.
The news confirms a report that The Information first reported yesterday.
The company appears to be an excellent fit as one of the primary use cases is… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/5IqPNF7Xspc/
‘Digital experience’ company Instart Logic raises $30M for global expansion
Instart Logic has raised $30 million in Series E funding. The company describes its technology as a “digital experience platform.” If that sounds vague, it’s partly because Instart Logic actually has a broad range of products, covering everything from performance optimization, image optimization, application firewall and its own content delivery network. Founder and CEO… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/zJUfoh5YTd0/
Samsung now offers an Enterprise Edition of the Note 8 for business
The push to let employees bring their own devices to work has been underway for some time now — in fact, it’s a big part of what ultimately doomed enterprise-focused companies like BlackBerry’s hardware businesses. Samsung’s been walking the line for a while as well, rolling out enterprise features like Knox security for its consumer handsets, along with accessories… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/3q9T_ShkZQg/
Expense report analysis startup AppZen raises $13M to build a smarter back office
Expense reports aren’t the most exciting thing in the universe. But when you reach the scale of say, Amazon, and have tens of thousands of employees, making sure everything comes through smoothly and the right things are being billed to the company could mean the difference in millions of dollars to your bottom line. And when Anant Kale walks into the office of a big company and asks for… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/RwsFAxXmeVc/
InVision picks up $100 million Series E
InVision, the design collaboration tool based out of New York, has today announced the close of a $100 million Series E funding round. The financing was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Tiger Global Management, FirstMark and ICONIQ Capital, along with new investors Spark Capital and Geodesic. InVision launched back in 2011 as a tool that would simply… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/nSF_GFwcq4s/
IBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data center
As companies search for ways to modernize their technology stacks, they struggle with managing the legacy software (and hardware) inside their own data centers. IBM introduced a new private cloud product today that is supposed to ease the transition to cloud computing and containerization and place those legacy applications in a more modern IT management context. IBM Cloud Private wants to… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/gH4--xhXNTE/
Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses is now generally available
Microsoft 365 lets businesses subscribe to a bundle with Office 365, Windows 10 and the company’s mobile device management tools. The early focus for this program was enterprises, but a few months ago, the company also launched a preview version of Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses. Today, Microsoft 365 Business is coming out of beta and is now generally available to… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/w5DS34_sjb8/
Google gives large businesses more options to connect directly to its cloud
In September, Google launched the beta of its dedicated interconnects for Google Cloud enterprise users. These direct connections to the Google Cloud Platform essentially give enterprises a private on-ramp to the Google Cloud, which is especially important if they want to mix and match their own data centers with applications that run in Google’s data centers. Today, the dedicated… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/UjGykEo1eFU/
Facebook’s Workplace, now at 30,000 orgs, adds Chat desktop apps and group video chat
It’s been once year since Workplace, Facebook’s social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations, came out of beta to take on the likes of Slack, Atlassian, Microsoft and others in the world of enterprise collaboration. Now, with 30,000 organizations using Workplace across some 1 million groups (more than double the figures Facebook published April)… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/E7kzprckq4I/
Techstars alums will now get discounted WeWork space
WeWork and Techstars are buddying up, the organizations announced today. Techstars, the global accelerator program responsible for companies like ClassPass, Sphero and Digital Ocean, will be bringing its program into the WeWork community by running its curriculum at WeWork locations in Toronto, Boston, Kansas City, and New York City. As a part of the deal, Techstars alumni will now get a… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/ve2wlmjtrCg/
Spotinst delivers spot cloud infrastructure services at discount prices
Cloud infrastructure vendors offer a range of prices for their services including aggressively priced virtual machines available on the spot market on an as-available basis. The catch is that the vendor can shut down these VMs whenever they happen to need them. Spotinst, a Tel Aviv-based startup, developed a service to buy and distribute that available excess capacity. Today, the company… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/2Av7xSaH66U/ Source: https://techcrunch.com/
