Applications OS

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  SAP Cancels Sapphire Now And Partner Summit, Plans Digital Events

  by Rick Whiting

  Software giant promises online programming in place of the conference, scheduled for mid-May, which last year drew 30,000 attendees.

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  Hitachi Vantara Completes Waterline Data Acquisition, Debuts Data Cataloging Software

  by Rick Whiting

  Moves expand Hitachi Vantara’s Lumada portfolio of DataOps software and services.

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  Microsoft Adds 12M Users For Teams In One Week

  by Kyle Alspach

  Solution providers say customers are rapidly moving to the Teams collaboration app in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the increase in work-from-home deployments.

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  Apple Closing All Retail Stores Outside China Due To Coronavirus

  by David Harris

  CEO Tim Cook announces a series of measures including expanded paid leave for workers and normal pay for hourly workers as part of the company’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

• Splunk Switch To Subscription Model Almost Complete, Reports 27 Percent Q4 Growth

  by Rick Whiting

  Splunk touts growth of annual recurring revenue and cloud sales and the popularity of the new pricing/purchase options it began offering in late 2019.

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  MongoDB Launches Bid To Recruit Oracle Customers To Migrate To Its Next-Gen Database

  by Rick Whiting

  The initiative, in alliance with Informatica and Hitachi Vantara Pentaho, is designed to help businesses and organizations modernize applications rather than just “lift and shift” them to the cloud.

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  Microsoft Dials Back Plan To Force Chrome Users To Bing

  by Kyle Alspach

  An update for Office 365 ProPlus this month will not include the Microsoft Search in Bing extension.

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  VMware’s Cloud On AWS And Dell Sales Leader Heads To HashiCorp

  by Mark Haranas

  Longtime VMware cloud and partner sales leader Brandon Sweeney has left to join the red hot open source automation startup.

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  SAP Reports 39% Cloud Sales Surge In 2019, Continued Customer Migration To S/4HANA

  by Rick Whiting

  Company expects cloud revenue to exceed 15 billion euros by 2023 with ‘predictable’ recurring revenue accounting for 80 percent of sales.

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  Splice Machine Readies New Edition Of Its Distributed SQL Data Platform

  by Rick Whiting

  The company will ship Splice Machine 3.0 this quarter, offering new workload management, high-availability and security enhancements that better position the next-generation database for mission-critical deployments.

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  Microsoft To Push Chrome Users To Bing Via Office 365 ProPlus Update

  by Kyle Alspach

  The forthcoming update will make Bing the default search engine for Chrome users in the U.S. and Canada.

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  Talend Taps Former SAP Concur Exec As New CEO In Management Overhaul

  by Rick Whiting

  The big data software developer also creates new chief revenue officer post and hires new chief customer officer – also recruiting from SAP Concur to fill those posts.

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  Big Data Developer Sisense Raises $100 Million In Financing, Hits $1 Billion Market Cap

  by Rick Whiting

  The funding round comes on the heels of the company’s 2019 acquisition of SaaS business analytics vendor Periscope Data.

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  Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Total Pay Declined To $11.6 Million In 2019

  by David Harris

  Cook’s salary was still 201 times more than the median pay of Apple employees.

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  Microsoft Reports Surge In Teams Users

  by Kyle Alspach

  The number of daily active users of Teams has grown to 20 million, out-pacing the growth of competing collaboration platform Slack.