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Google to open $600M green Tennessee data center as part of clean energy push
The Southeastern United States is emerging at the center of Google Inc.’s efforts to remove its reliance on fossil fuels. A year after announcing plans to open a new Alabama data center powered entirely by renewable energy, the search giant has received approval to construct a twin campus 200 miles to the north in neighboring ...
What you missed in Big Data: Holiday cheer
The venture capital community showed its spirit of giving last week with a flurry of investments in the analytics ecosystem that made the holiday extra cheerful for a few lucky startups. First on the list was MapAnything Inc., which received a $7.3 million investment from Greycroft Partners and four other backers to accelerate the adoption ...
What you missed in Cloud: Expansion plans
Last week saw the incumbent providers consolidate their hold over the public cloud with a series of strategic moves aimed at addressing the emerging use cases that are starting to appear on the agenda of their customers. Amazon Inc. kicked off the push by launching a managed registry that promises to streamline the management of ...
Hyatt becomes latest top hotel chain to get hit by hack
The security administrators of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation probably won’t be taking the holiday off this year. The hospitality giant yesterday announced that its payment processing infrastructure has suffered a breach in what is at least the sixth major attack against a key member of the global travel industry since the beginning of 2015. The ...
Optical networking startup Acacia files for $125M IPO
Nutanix Inc. isn’t the only data center startup that filed for a public offering this week. While the converged infrastructure vendor was basking in the limelight, Acacia Communications Inc. quietly informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it’s also planning to hit the stock market early next year with the goal of raising $125 million, a target that ...
IDC: Hyperconverged infrastructure reached new heights in Q3
Vendors shipped nearly 35 percent more converged infrastructure in the third quarter than the same period last year but saw total worldwide revenue increase by less than a fifth of that, according to a new estimate from International Data Corporation (IDC). The research firm believes that the discrepancy reflects a shift in spending from the ...
AWS launches container registry for large Docker projects
Managing Docker projects on Amazon Inc.’s cloud will become a lot easier for development teams after they return to work from the holiday thanks to the launch of a new service that promises to automate the handling of software components. The EC2 Container Registry can be used to store everything from low-level building blocks like operating ...
MapAnything raises $7.3 million to turn Salesforce.com into a geosaptial analysis console
Geospatial analysis is starting to receive some serious attention in the venture capital community. Less than two weeks after Factual Inc. raised $35 million to help widen the adoption of its location data service, MapAnything Inc. has completed a $7.3 million round of its own to launch a similar growth initiative. The new capital will be spent ...
Oracle buys container startup StackEngine to bolster developer cloud
For a large vendor trying to catch up on a new technology trend, tapping its vast cash reserves to acquire a startup that already has an entry in the race is a lot more convenient than spending time building its own from scratch at the risk of falling further behind. The latest anecdote for that comes ...
What you missed in Big Data: Real-time intelligence
The challenge of handling the growing amounts of real-time data entering the corporate network returned to the center of the analytics discussion last week after IBM Corp. added four new stream processing services to its public cloud. The star of the lineup is a machine learning engine that allows organizations to create pre-programmed algorithms for picking out ...