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Red Hat Becomes Open Source’s First $1 Billion Baby
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Red Hat has become an open-source juggernaut. Photo: Courtesy Red Hat Meet Red Hat: the billion-dollar Linux company. The 17-year-old Raleigh, North Carolina software vendor is set to release its fiscal 2012 earnings numbers on Wednesday, and if things go as planned, it should bump past $1 billion in annual...
Despite Chinese Hack, Google Still Uses Microsoft Windows
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The rumor was that Google banned the use of Windows. But CIO Ben Fried says otherwise. Photo: Google In the wake of the late-2009 attack on Google’s internal systems that saw Chinese hackers pilfer proprietary software code, the rumor was that the search giant was dumping Microsoft Windows. A report...
Google: ‘We’re Like a Bank For Your Data’
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Eran Feigenbaum compares Google Apps to a bank in the days when a bank was a new idea. Just as a bank stores money, Google Apps stores data, and the onus is on Google to convince you and your business that this data is properly protected. “It’s very similar...
SAP Lays out Cloud Strategy Post-SuccessFactors Deal
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SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration......
Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud
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In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there’s one area of enterprise technology that’s been sitting out the transition — business applications. The cloud has led to an explosion of new apps, but (to pick two random examples) chip design and medical imaging apps...
Amazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud
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Amazon’s Terry Wise SAP All-in-One applications will soon run in Amazon’s cloud. That could make Amazon EC2 more attractive to companies that worry about offloading crucial business applications from their own data centers. SAP BusinessObjects analytics and Rapid Deployment solutions already run on Amazon — as do most of Oracle’s...
Bain Ventures-Backed AppNeta Acquires Bain Ventures-Backed Tracelytics
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When Bain Ventures invested $5.2 million into Boston-based Tracelytics, one of the firm’s portfolio companies took an interest. After a few months of getting-to-know-yous, the company, AppNeta, became interested enough to acquire Tracelytics. Which it did. Today. “It’s a bittersweet day,” CEO John Vigeant says, “but our name will be...
Yammer Brings Social Collaboration To SAP
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Last year, Yammer debuted an integration with Salesforce to bring sales data from the CRM product into Yammer’s social collaboration feed. Today, Yammer is debuting a similar product enhancement with SAP, the first real data integration with an on-premise enterprise giant. Via a Yammer SAP connecter, updated from SAP ERP...
Tennis Pals Ellison and Hurd Explored HP-Oracle Merger
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Ellison and Hurd caught a little tennis in Indian Wells, California, just four days before Oracle dumped Itanium. Photo: EPA/Paul Buck When Mark Hurd was still CEO of Hewlett-Packard, he and Oracle Larry CEO discussed a possible merger of the two companies. It never amounted to a material negotiation, but...
NEC, Hitachi, and 68 others to form iOS Consortium, provide business software and services
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A group of 70 Japanese companies including Hitachi and NEC are reportedly partnering to create a general corporation called "iOS Consortium" in order to speed up adoption of Apple products in the enterprise. According toNikkei, it will be established on June 21st, and aims to jointly develop software, train...
Business Cloud Consulting Is Consolidating
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Two of the larger consultancies that specialize in business applications for the cloud are merging, creating the largest player in a still small field. Cloud service providers, as they are called, help both Google and Salesforce sell products, and aim to teach companies how to collaborate and use social media...
Google Parts Ways With First Business Apps Czar
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Photo: Courtesy Google Google’s first enterprise boss is leaving the company. On Friday, Google vice president David Girouard — who was hired in 2004 to run the company’s still gestating enterprise business — said he’s parting ways with the tech giant to help run a startup called Upstart.com. “It’s always...
Google launching new Chromebooks
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The company’s fledgling hardware initiative is getting a second boost. FORTUNE — About a year after announcing its first Chromebooks, Google is launching updated versions of the barebones computer — a new laptop and desktop, both made by Samsung. The question is, will customers want to buy the devices, even...
Microsoft Azure falls down, goes boom
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Microsoft Azure went down Monday night and stayed down for hours. That news comes as Microsoft is trying to pitch two-year-old Azure as a safe and reliable platform for consumer and business applications. As first reported by The Register, which cited Microsoft’s service page, Azure’s service management system started acting up just...
Google Apps Contracts Steeled For Europeans
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(Image: Falco500/Flickr) Google says it will update the user contracts for Google Apps — its suit of online business applications — to better comply with the European Union’s rules on sharing personal data abroad. On Wednesday, the search giant said said that it would offer specific language in contracts for...
SAP has a new star
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The company has been notoriously lagging in software-as-a-service. Enter one energetic and eccentric executive, Lars Dalgaard. FORTUNE — SAP’s Lars Dalgaard has been called irrepressible, energetic and eccentric (and, according to at least one analyst, a “lunatic”). But he may be just what the stodgy company needs to give it...
Bunchball personalizes “Flamethrower” gamification for each user
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Bunchball has made a name for itself by gamifying web sites and business applications so that users are more engaged. Now, the company is personalizing gamification to target individual users with its new Nitro Flamethrower offering. To date gamification has been one size fits all users. But just as...
SAP and the Data Analytics Speed Race
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SAP, the big German software company, has made an impressive, if late, entry to the emerging market for real-time data-analysis technology. Its real competitive advantage, analysts say, is the use its knowledge from its business applications stronghold to give it an edge in the field of "big data."...
Why Workday has Oracle and SAP worried
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Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield were pioneers at PeopleSoft — until they were forced out. Now, with brisk sales and an IPO on the horizon, their new venture has big competitors on the defensive. FORTUNE — In business, revenge is often swift. Take the sudden firing of a poorly performing...
Cisco CloudVerse opens a new world of cloud computing possibilities
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This sponsored post is brought to you by Cisco. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. For businesses that wish to embrace cloud technology in order to simplify their operations, provide a forum for project collaboration, and operate on a secure platform, the Cisco CloudVerse aims to...
SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
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SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando....
Microsoft shows Windows 8 business apps, battling iPad in the enterprise
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Can Microsoft’s Windows 8 fend off the iPad in the enterprise? We’ve gotten a sense for what consumer apps will look like on Windows 8 through the consumer preview of the upcoming Microsoft operating system. But this week at Microsoft’s Convergence conference in Houston, the company and its partners are...
EU, Japan, and US attack Chinese rare earth monopoly
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The EU and US have joined forces with Japan to file a complaint against China with the World Trade Organization. At issue is that country’s refusal to lift trade embargoes and highly restrictive quotas that have driven the price of rare earth minerals skyward in recent years. So-called “rare earth”...
Microsoft to support Windows 8 ARM tablet enterprise management for 'bring your own' PC scenarios
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The "consumerization of IT" is a key term used by organizations to describe the influx of consumer tech in business. Employees are increasingly purchasing smartphone devices and expecting big enterprise IT support departments to allow them to access company email systems, intranet resources, and line of business applications. This...
Shasta Ventures Leads $1.6M Round In Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup VoloMetrix
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VoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics application that helps businesses streamline their communications and performance, has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures. VoloMetrix essentially analyzes various business applications to help managers understand what’s going on in a business. Specifically, VoloMetrix ties in with collaborations systems, email, IM...
Feds nix Oracle blanket contract
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Last year Oracle agreed to settle with the General Services Administration (GSA) to the tune of $199 million in a reputation damaging case which saw Oracle accused of overcharging some government agencies. Today, we hear that as of May 17th, Oracle’s GSA IT Schedule 70 contract is being terminated. To put...
The New Blueprint for App Provisioning: VMware's Application Director
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The presumed "elasticity" of cloud technology tends to fall apart whenever the bindings change. That is, when a virtual machine or virtualized application relies upon the specific configuration of the hardware providing its infrastructure, it isn't exactly cloud-like when you have to migrate that element to a new host....
Nokia begins rolling out Microsoft business apps to Belle-enabled handsets
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Nokia has begun rolling out a suite of Microsoft productivity apps to Nokia Belle-enabled handsets, providing users with four new business applications that extend the Nokia and Microsoft partnership beyond their Windows Phone collaboration. Nokia device owners will need to have updated their handsets to Nokia Belle, which began rolling...
Kinect start-ups compete for cash
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Microsoft has helped 11 firms hoping to market business applications for its Kinect sensor to find backers....
SAP cuddles up with Amazon, but what about Azure?
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News that SAP will — along with Amazon — certify more of its business applications to run in production on Amazon’s public cloud raises the question of what’s going on with SAP and Microsoft Windows Azure. As one commenter to our SAP-Amazon post last night put it: “So much for SAP...
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