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Corent Boosts Funding For SaaS Tools

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Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. The firm is targeting enterprise customers with its offering, and has a major deal with IBM to help customers move their software into the cloud.

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Nirvanix Scrambles To Transfer Cloud Data Before Shutdown

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Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure. Nirvanix did not detail the reasons for the rapid shutdown of the service, which was first announced to customers two weeks ago.

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Guidance Software Snags Marketing VP From Websense

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Cole was most recently VP of Marketing for Websense, and also served for over 25 years at IBM. Guidance develops software used by government, corporate, and law enforcement customers to examine computers for e-discovery and other investigations. Tags: guidance software executive forensics security saas websense. READ MORE>>.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. We then asked them to encourage IBM to license DesktopStreaming on their behalf. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Understanding How Profits are Shifting Across the Computing Value Chain

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There’s a famous scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (a movie that chronicled the origins of Microsoft and Apple) in which Bill Gates is meeting with IBM executives. The IBM executives agree to license software from Microsoft because “there’s no money in software anyways.”

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With $40 million for AuditBoard’s risk and compliance toolkit, LA’s enterprise startups notch another win

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” There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance , but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

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Our marquis customers are companies like Citibank and Lowe's Corporation, along with many others. We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. About 30 to 45 percent of our business is international.