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AtScale raises $11M from Comcast and friends for its Hadoop BI platform
During funding negotiations, the ball is usually in the court of the startup at the receiving end of the transaction. But in the case of AtScale Inc.’s latest financing round, it was investors who came knocking on the door to buy a stake, according to founder and chief executive Dave Mariani. The firm announced today ...
Successful Acacia IPO raises new hope for tech startups eyeing stock market
Acacia Communications Inc.’s stock price is up more than 30 percent on its first day of trading in what marks the technology sector’s first successful public offering of the year. For the network equipment maker, the occasion is made all the more memorable by the fact that it managed to raise a hefty $103.5 million ...
Report: Amazon is investing in a new submarine Internet cable
It takes much more than a local data center to extend a public cloud like Amazon Inc.’s into a new market. The undertaking also requires a robust networking backbone capable of linking the facility to the rest of AWS reliably, securely and with as little latency as possible. As a result, it doesn’t come entirely ...
Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft expands Azure to Canada and South Korea
Since it committed to matching Amazon Inc. on infrastructure prices three years ago, Microsoft Corp. quietly broadened the effort by creating homegrown versions of advanced AWS services. And judging by the locations of the four new cloud data centers that were announced on the Azure blog this week, Redmond has been paying attention to its ...
Syncsort adds native support for Spark and Kafka to help users modernize their analytics environments
A 2015 survey from Databricks Inc. found that Spark is quickly replacing MapReduce in Hadoop deployments, but adoption could be increasing even faster if not for the difficulty of upgrading. Syncsort Inc. is moving to ease the task for users of its DMX-h tool today by adding native integration with the engine that removes the ...
HPE launches IoT platform to help companies manage their connected devices
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making waves at IoT World 2016 in Santa Clara this week with a new management system designed to help companies process information from the connected universe. The Universal Internet of Things Platform, as the offering is called, promises to streamline every major step of the analysis process starting from the initial ...
Amazon says its new deep learning library is 2x faster than Google’s
Though Amazon Inc. doesn’t make a habit of sharing its internally-produced software with the outside world, the large number of fellow web giants that had open-sourced their deep learning technology in recent months has apparently prompted a change of heart. And so the company quietly joined the fray yesterday with the release of a C++ ...
Weaveworks nabs $15M from Alphabet’s GV and Accel to simplify container networking
As container adoption continues to soar in the enterprise, so is the amount of venture capital being showered on the startups trying to monetize the trend. The funding tally increased once again this morning after Weaveworks Inc. announced that it’s raised $15 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV (formerly Google Ventures) and growth equity powerhouse Accel ...
Docker launches a cloud-based security service for analyzing container images
The number of container startups to have announced major funding or product updates in the past 24 hours jumped to four this morning after Docker Inc. launched a new paid security add-on for its code hosting service. Born from an internal effort dubbed Project Nautilus that was first revealed last year, the addition is designed to help ...
Low-profile DNS powerhouse Dyn raises $50M to push ahead of rivals
For a company with over a million paying customers, Dynamic Network Services Inc. (better known as Dyn) has been keeping a very low profile. But that is set to change as the website performance specalist moves to step up marketing efforts using the $50 million in funding that it’s raised from Pamplona Capital Management today. ...