Enterprise data software company Splunk has filed for a $125 million initial public offering, according to its SEC S-1 form.
San Francisco-based Splunk offers businesses software to better analyze and interpret their data. The company’s mission is to “make machine …
Your job comes with a web of security permissions that an IT department has to regulate. IBM‘s newest security software, however, knows what role you have and can assign access before the IT guys ever have to lift a finger.…
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Cloud computing. What once was a controversial, cutting-edge term is now part of seemingly everyone’s vocabulary.
From ads in last year’s Super Bowl to billboards in airports across the world, “the cloud” is everywhere. Many of today’s solutions do offer …
Cloud-based software giant Salesforce.com has agreed to buy performance management firm Rypple for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced today.
Rypple dubs itself as a “cloud-based social performance management company.” Basically, it provides software designed to help managers improve …
Cloud storage company Box announced three new security features and a partnership with Intel today, in hopes of bringing cloud security to a place where CIOs are no longer afraid of it.
The cloud is a very useful place to …
Salesforce’s social productivity service Do.com has moved out of beta and into general availability for anyone who wants to give it a spin.
When Do.com debuted in early November in limited beta, the company gave VentureBeat 200 invites, and I …
Enterprise social networking company Jive Software priced shares of its initial public offering at $12 a share and sold them to raise $161.3 million on Monday. Trading begins tomorrow for the company’s stock on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol …
MarketScout is a lean Australian startup that’s dependent on other cloud services to make it run, so when it came to deciding on a Platform-as-a-Service provider, the company had an important decision to make. They chose Salesforce-owned Heroku and still …
Today, businesses can do all their application development in the cloud, thanks to Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology. This is a fast-moving trend in enterprise technology, and while it sounds dry, things start to get very interesting when it …
Enterprise cloud computing service Salesforce is showing off its newly revamped Radian6, the web-based social media monitoring platform, at the company’s Cloudforce event in New York today.
Salesforce purchased Radian6 earlier this year for $326 million. Until now, the company …
AppExchange, SalesForce’s cloud app marketplace, has just received a facelift to spotlight mobile apps for iOS and Android devices.
For Salesforce, a cloud business software giant, the revamped AppExchange will be a useful avenue for suggesting cloud mobile apps to …
Major platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has expanded its offerings with the new Heroku Postgres standalone service for developers who work with SQL databases, the company announced today.
Heroku has offered developers already using its service tools with PostgreSQL for several years, …
Today, Salesforce announced its Q3 earnings, which included a record $584 in revenue — a 36 percent year-over-year increase.
The bulk of that money came from the company’s subscription and support services, which accounted for $549 million. The remainder of …
Customer service is taking on new and exciting forms. Putting together a full customer support team is so expensive that it’s out of reach for most small businesses. Often the choice for small companies and startups is to pile all …
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Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t …
Urban Airship, a mobile development platform, announced a $15.1 million third round of funding led by strategic investors Salesforce.com and Verizon Wireless.
Mobile developers face a lot of challenges, but two main ones exist: getting people to download your application, …
Social business company Jive Software is making it easier for companies to adhere to electronic communications laws by partnering with Actiance, a company hinged on keeping you compliant.
We aren’t talking through tin cans anymore. The business world is full …
Oracle chief executive and fifth richest person in the world Larry Ellison is indisputably one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley. He has also managed to spawn a generation of notable tech leaders, as you can see in …
FirstRain announced a $6.4 million round today, its fifth from Oak Investment Partners.
FirstRain is an example of a dot-com era company that sought out a new focus with the hope of becoming profitable. Penny Herscher (pictured left) became the …
