The meteoric increase in the amounts of data entering the corporate network is raising the need for organizations to modernize not only the systems in which that information is stored but also the supporting infrastructure below. That’s what Cisco Systems Inc. set out to help facilitate through a collaboration with Basho Technologies Inc. announced last week.

The partnership has produced a framework that enables the latter’s database to run on Mesos, an open-source management technology that can consolidate disparate servers, storage systems and networking equipment into a unified pool of resources applications are able to draw upon as needed. That approach lets platforms like Basho’s scale to meet data growth much more easily than traditional operating models.

But accommodating the massive amounts of new information coming off all the new sources that enterprises are tapping is only the first step towards gaining the insights for which CIOs are embarking on the endeavor in the first place. The next leg is the extraction process which is what Datameer Inc. secured $40 million in funding last week to simplify.

The capital will be used to help expand the adoption of its namesake business intelligence platform, which allows analysts to manipulate all of their organization’s information in a single environment. Under the hood, that data is stored in Hadoop, with unstructured metrics residing side-by-side with traditional structured records pulled from legacy relational systems.

Once everything has been properly ingested, Datameer makes it possible to search for useful patterns using its graphical analysis tools and turn the results into graphs that can be easily consumed by decision-makes. Mode Inc. raised $7.5 million in a funding round of its own last week to deliver the same functionality with a collaborative twist aimed at analyst teams.

The startup marked the occasion with the release of several new features for its service, most notably the ability to incorporate multiple graphs into the same visualization, a small but important enhancement reflecting a growing focus on more advanced use cases. The update also brings the ability to populate information from several previously unsupported sources, including the Faceook Inc.-developed Presto data warehouse, into those graphs.

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