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Precog’s Raises $2M for Drag ‘N Drop Analytics Interface
This week a startup called Precog that it received $2 million in a first round of funding led by RP Ventures, only three months after it came out of stealth at the Strata conference. The company offers a cloud-based platform that analyzes the unstructured data streams a developer is tapping into, such as social media ...
VisibleGains Puts the Pizzazz Back in Cloud Storage
The personal and enterprise cloud storage industry has become extremely crowded, and it sometimes seems that this scenario doesn’t leave all that much room for innovation. Dropbox and Box have claimed the lion’s share of this market, while the rest is split up between smaller players that often offer a service only slightly different than ...
Objectivity Claims Big Wins for NoSQL
Objectivity is a veteran database company that has been making software to help large enterprises manage their data since 1988. More recently they jumped aboard the NoSQL bandwagon, and now reports that its distributed object DB solution is becoming more popular than ever. The firm says that in recent months some 14 companies decided to ...
Rumble in the Cloud: SAP Makes An Investment in Procurement with Ariba
Business software maker SAP announced its latest multi-billion dollar deal today: the acquisition of Ariba. SAP has agreed to pay $45 per share, a 20 percent premium over ARBA’s closing price on May 21. The merger will have to go through the regular round of regulations before becoming official, and experts believe that the transaction ...
Head of Unified Storage Talks Consumption Models, Flash at EMC World 2012
Rich Napolitano, the president of EMC’s unified storage division, is attending the EMC World conference held this week and stopped by theCube to discuss a few of his favorite topics with Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante (see full video below). Napolitano dedicated some time to note the more positive energy of this year’s gathering, which ...
Talend Announces Greenplum Integration @ EMC World
Talend announced a major big data push at the EMC World conference held this week. The company, which makes data integration and management software, has integrated its platform with the entire Greenplum portfolio: that includes Greenplum HD, Greenplum MR, the Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) and the Greenplum Database. Big data has already caught on as ...
Geoloqi API and Dev Kit Launching on Titanium
Geoloqi is an embedded solution that lays down the ground work for just about any location-based service, whether it’s a Foursquare clone or an enterprise app. And today the platform reached a very significant milestone – it’s now an add-on in Titanium 2.0. Appcelerator unveiled the second generation of its popular web-based mobile development environment ...
Android is Too Slippery for Microsoft, Must Remain Open for China
Motorola managed to steer its way through two different rounds of regulatory bureaucracy this week, and this has implications across the entire Android ecosystem. The first update comes from the courtroom, or more specifically, a lawsuit from Microsoft alleging that Motorola infringed seven of its patents. Motorola didn’t come out victorious, but the outcome was ...
What to Expect at Greenplum’s Data Science Summit: EMC World 2012
Since EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum in 2010, they’ve become a regular at EMC World. This year the firm is holding the second annual Data Science Summit, one of several community events going within the conference. Things kick off today and will continue through tomorrow. The Summit will feature keynotes from experts within this industry over the course ...
Taming the Big Data Gorilla [Infographic]
Wikibon released a new infographic that lays out the value proposition behind Big Data and provides vivid example of real-world Big Data usecases. Big data has certainly gotten “big,” and its growing at fast pace. According to Google, the term’s popularity has increased by more than 1,200 percent in recent years, and there’s something to ...