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What you missed in Cloud: Price cuts and APIs
The industry’s top cloud providers regularly cut their infrastructure rates in a bid to stay ahead of the competition. Last week, Google set the pace by announcing a massive 33 percent reduction in the price its so-called Preemptive VMs, which are geared towards low-priority workloads that don’t need to run continuously for an extended period ...
Oracle takes on LinkedIn and Salesforce with new B2B data marketplace
Oracle Corp. is continuing to expand its public cloud. Three weeks after buying NetSuite Inc. for $9.3 billion to gain a bigger presence in the software-as-a-service space, the vendor is launching a new managed data exchange where marketers can buy information about business prospects. The bulk of Oracle’s record cache is sourced from Datalogix, Bluekai ...
AWS now lets companies use on-premise crypto gear to protect their workloads
Though the CIA has deemed Amazon Inc.’s cloud safe enough to run sensitive governmental workloads, some companies still struggle to meet their compliance requirements using the built-in security functionality. To amend the situation, the vendor is rolling out a new encryption feature that makes it possible to harness external cryptographic hardware. More specifically, the addition ...
Accolade raises $70M to help companies improve their healthcare plans
There are few professional services startups out there that have managed to get investors as excited as Accolade Inc. The Seattle-based outfit raised a hefty $70 million in funding today from a group of high-profile backers led by Andreessen Horowitz to fuel the growth of its healthcare consulting operations. Accolade employs several hundred medical professionals, ...
Data scientists can now directly access IBM Watson in R
IBM Corp.’s push to widen the adoption of Watson is not a solo effort. The company is actively recruiting the help of partners like Ohio’s Columbus Collaboratory LLC, which launched a new open-source imitative today that aims to make the analytics platform more easily accessible. Dubbed CognizeR, the project provides a library for the R ...
Nimble Storage unveils new $40K entry-level flash array
The all-flash array market is heating up. A day after E8 Storage Inc. debuted a new NVMe appliance that it claims is ten times faster than traditional alternatives, Nimble Storage Inc. is launching an entry-level system aimed at making the benefits of solid-state memory more easily attainable. The platform is being marketed under the name ...
Early virtual assistant provider Interactions raises $56M in funding
Though virtual assistants and chatbots only entered the industry spotlight fairly recently, they’ve been around in some form or another for over a decade. One of the earliest players in this space is Interactions LLC, a Massachusetts-based provider that secured a $56 million investment yesterday to expand its lead. The company claims that it’s processed more ...
FullContact raises $25M for its cross-platform address book
While email providers and social networks try to make managing contacts as easy as possible, it’s still a major hassle for busy enterprise workers who have to keep up with hundreds of different people at any given time. In response, users turning to third party providers like FullContact Inc., which closed $25 million in funding today ...
ThousandEyes extends its network monitoring service to employee endpoints
Monitoring an organization’s internal network can only provide so much operational insight in the age of cloud services and remote workers. To broaden administrators’ perspective, ThousandEyes Inc. is launching a new endpoint agent for its traffic tracking service that provides the ability to aggregate activity data from outside the firewall. More specifically, the software is ...
GigaSpaces opens up its in-memory data grid
More and more data management vendors are open-sourcing their software. DataTorrent Inc. released the code for its stream processing engine last year, Splice Machine Inc. did the same with its Hadoop-based relational store this June and now GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. is joining the club as well. The company this morning announced plans to make the ...