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NewVoiceMedia Raises Another $50M For Its Cloud-Based Contact Centers
NewVoiceMedia, a UK-based provider of cloud-based contact solutions, is today announcing that it has raised another $50 million. The company will use the funding to build out its business in America and Asia in order to compete with the likes of Inside Sales, LiveOps, inContact, carriers, and a number of regional providers. With a long list like that, you can see where big funding might come… Read More
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Massachusetts Open Cloud Project Hopes To Create Ad-Hoc Infrastructure Marketplace
Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor… Read More
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Luminoso Lands $6.5M In Series A To Keep Building Cloud Text Analytics Service
Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics company announced $6.5M in Series A funding today, led by Acadia Woods with Digital Garage also participating. That brings their total funds raised to $8M. Luminoso was born out of research at the MIT Media Labs and spun off in 2010. After getting their seed funding in 2012, they have continued to develop the product, which provides text analytics… Read More
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Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data
Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks hopes to simplify the entire matter by moving it… Read More
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Zendesk Insights Shows It’s A Data-Driven World
Last month, I wrote an article called Actually, Every Company Is A Big Data Company in which I postulated that simply by the act of collecting data as an artifact of doing business, every company is in the Big Data business. Zendesk is putting this idea into practice, releasing a new feature today called Zendesk Insights that purports to give its customers a deeper understanding of… Read More
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CloudPhysics Grabs $15M In Series C Funding And Announces New Virtual Storage Predictive Analytics
CloudPhysics has a vision for the data center: It wants to give sysadmins clarity and insight into possible issues that create bottlenecks in a virtualized environment, offer solutions when they happen, and help prevent issues before they even happen — all as a cloud service. Read More
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Dropbox, Box Competition Heats Up As Companies Buy Early-Stage Startups On Same Day
When two closely competing companies make purchases on the same day, it’s probably fair to say that it’s not a coincidence. Such was the case yesterday when Box and Dropbox purchased early stage startups only hours apart. In fact, the cloud startups with similar names have been on mini buying sprees of late, fighting to fill in holes and improve their products as they march toward… Read More
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Microsoft Announces Azure ML, Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform That Can Predict Future Events
Microsoft has been on quite a cloud roll lately and today it announced a new cloud-based machine learning platform called Azure ML, which enables companies to use the power of the cloud to build applications and APIs based on big data and predict future events instead of looking backwards at what happened. The product is built on the machine learning capabilities already available in… Read More
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