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Chinese investor leads $20M round into container orchestration startup Rancher
It’s apparently not just Silicon Valley investors who are excited about the fast-growing adoption of containers in the enterprise. China’s GRC SinoGreen was this morning named as the lead contributor to a $20 million funding round in Rancher Labs Inc., a startup that helps automate the management of large-scale Docker clusters. Its namesake orchestration software ...
Challenging GE and Bosch, Hitachi unveils homegrown Internet of Things platform
A little over a year after announcing plans to harness the vast amounts of data coming off the connected universe, Hitachi Ltd. is delivering on the promise with the launch of a homegrown analytics platform called Lumada. The move adds its name to the long list of global industrial giants that hope to become more ...
Wikibon explains the appeal of Oracle’s SPARC M7 chips
Given Intel Corp.’s near-complete dominance of the server processor market, it’s tempting to dismiss alternatives like the SPARC series from Oracle Corp. as hopeless underdogs. But while they may have fit that description until recently, Wikibon co-founder David Floyer says the situation is starting to change thanks to the convergence of two major trends in the ...
CoreOS gets $28M to fuel its fight against Docker
Another week, another container startup announcing a big round of funding. San Francisco-based CoreOS Inc. has secured a $28 million investment from a group of high-profile backers led by Alphabet Inc.’s private equity arm, GV, to promote its implementation of the lightweight virtualization technology. The cash infusion represents the latest milestone in its rapid rise to ...
What you missed in Big Data: Making order out of spreadsheet chaos
For a solution category dedicated to keeping data organized and accessible, spreadsheeting software can be immensely unwieldy at times. The issue returned to the fore last week after Alphabet Inc. integrated its BigQuery business intelligence service with Google Sheets to try and make it easier for users to tap their structured records. The addition not ...
What you missed in Cloud: The software-as-a-service arms race continues
Last week saw several of the biggest names in the software-as-a-service market roll out major feature additions to their offerings as part of a renewed push to woo enterprise customers. Microsoft Corp. set the pace with the introduction of three new mobile SharePoint clients that will extend access to internal corporate sites beyond traditional desktops ...
EMC spin-off Pivotal raises mammoth $253M investment led by Ford
Unlike some of the other companies in the unicorn club, Pivotal Software Inc. won’t have to worry about raising additional funds anytime soon. The EMC Corp. spin-off today announced that it’s secured a $253 million investment from a group of backers led by the Ford Motor Company, which contributed more than two thirds of the ...
Intacct secures $40M to disrupt on-premise ERP
The importance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to a company’s operations means that it’s usually among the last workloads a CIO would consider moving to the cloud. But the market is steadily warming up to the proposition thanks providers like Intacct Inc., which has taken out a $40 million loan from Silicon Valley Bank to keep ...
What IBM’s new quantum processor means for the future of computing
Tucked away at IBM Corp.’s T.J. Watson Research Center in a high-tech fridge cooled to almost absolute zero is an experimental chip that could help advance scientific inquiry further than any conventional supercomputer. It’s the culmination of a more than three-decade research effort that the technology giant launched shortly after Richard Feynman first proposed the ...
Microsoft acquires IoT platform-as-a-service provider Solair
Microsoft Corp.’s public cloud could become much better-equipped to store and analyze data from the connected universe thanks to its newly announced acquisition of Solair Sri. Founded in 2011, the Italian startup offers a line of managed services designed to automate the tougher aspects of processing machine-generated transmissions. The lynchpin of the suite is a physical network ...