Jul, 2016 : Salesforce Acquires Data Management Startup Coolan
📅 - Salesforce announced on Thursday that they had acquired Coolan, a three-year-old Silicon Valley startup that helps companies manage data centers and hardware purchases using Big Data analytics. Many were confused about the acquisition, as this is Salesforce's first foray into the Big Data industry.
But Coolan's co-founder, Amir Michael, stated in a blog post that Coolan would help optimize Salesforce's infrastructure. Michael co-founded the Open Compute Project, Facebook's open source data center and hardware design initiative.
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