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Couchbase gets $30M from VCs to expand the adoption of its document store
While they’re not nearly as quick to provide funding as they were a year ago, technology investors are apparently still willing to bet big when it comes to data management software. Sorenson Capital and half a dozen other private equity heavyweights this morning announced that they’ve led a $30 million round of financing into Couchbase Inc., ...
HPE’s newest converged system is a branch office workhorse that can deploy VMs in 5 clicks
While the average corporate branch office doesn’t require a lot of infrastructure to support its operations, the limited amount of equipment that does have to be deployed on the premises is expected to provide many of the same capabilities as a full-blown data center. Hewlett Packard Enterprise added a new model to its hyperconverged appliance ...
Alphabet’s GV leads $30M investment into secure server maker Skyport
Alphabet Inc. is emerging as an unlikely force for change in the data center. Two weeks after the company teamed up with Facebook Inc. to widen the adoption of commodity infrastructure among enterprises, its venture capital arm is leading a $30 million investment into Skyport Systems Inc., a startup that has developed a new breed ...
SAP launches in-memory query engine for Spark into general availability
It’s becoming increasingly rare to see a major player in the open-source analytics ecosystem that doesn’t offer some sort of homegrown query engine. Every leading Hadoop distributor has one, as does Pivotal Software Inc., and now SAP SE is joining the fray too with the introduction of a new in-memory variant for Apache Spark. Vora ...
Crate bags $4M to provide an ultra-scalable SQL database for container clusters
Containerized services are so different from traditional software in design that even the most basic building blocks of application development are being reworked to better address their operational requirements. In the database layer, the effort is led by a European startup called Crate Technology GmbH, which has secured a $4 million investment from Docker Inc. ...
Alooma raises $11M to make ETL less of a pain
Before an analyst can dig into a new dataset, the information has to be physically moved from its original host system to an environment with the necessary tools for the job, which is much easier said than done. The topic returned to the industry spotlight today after Alooma Ltd. received $11.2 million in funding courtesy ...
What you missed in Big Data: Gaming meets AI
More and more companies are starting to explore the potential applications of artificial intelligence in their markets. Last week saw Chinese gaming titan Beijing Kunlun Technology Co. Ltd. join the fray with the launch of a new subsidiary in Palo Alto that will be tasked with researching how neural networks can increase the appeal of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Upping the ante
Despite the fact that organizations are increasingly opting to rent hardware from cloud providers instead of purchasing their own, Moore’s law is still very much factoring into infrastructure spending. The latest example of its indirect influence came last week when Rackspace Inc. introduced a new generation of bare-metal servers that promise to provide a significantly bigger bang for the ...
Bad patch leaves Java susceptible to remote exploitation
As if the possible presence of undiscovered exploits in their applications wasn’t enough cause for worry, Oracle Corp. customers will now also have be mindful of known faults that are supposedly already fixed. A new report from Polish consultancy Security Explorations that was picked by PCWorld this morning reveals how a vulnerability patched back in ...
HPE goes after IBM’s Watson with new cloud-based deep learning platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise may have given up on competing in the infrastructure-as-a-service market, but the other elements of its plan to expand beyond the data center are coming along on schedule. After nearly a year and a half of testing, the company this morning launched a managed analytics platform that attempts to challenge IBM Corp.’s Watson Developer ...