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DataRobot snags $33M from VCs to automate machine learning
There are countless vendors promising to simplify the processing of unstructured information, but most don’t take the idea nearly as far DataRobot Inc. has. The three-year-old startup today closed a $33 million funding round meant to help sustain the edge of its analytics service, which attempts to automate every major chore involved in creating number-crunching algorithms starting with ...
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks triples revenue in Q4
Demand for Hadoop in the enterprise is not merely growing fast but at an accelerating rate as well if the latest earnings report from Hortonworks Inc. is anything to go by. The distributor claims to have generated $37 million in revenue during the fourth quarter, which constitutes a massive 196 percent jump from last year. In ...
100K taxpayers compromised in latest IRS hack
Some changes are clearly in order at the cybersecurity department of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Less than six months after admitting that hackers pilfered personal information about more than 300,000 individuals from its website, the agency has revealed that another 101,000 accounts were compromised in a similar attack a few weeks ago. The breach ...
VMware unleashes vSAN 6.2 on the hyperconverged infrastructure world
The competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure market kicked up a notch this morning after VMware Inc. debuted a major new version of its Virtual SAN (vSAN) software for managing server-attached storage. The release promises to increase the amount of data that can be kept on a given machine by up to ten times using a set ...
HPE joins $8M funding round into Israeli security startup Hexadite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been unusually active in the venture capital scene since separating from its former consumer electronics business last November. A month ago, the company backed storage startup Scality Inc. to the tune of $10 million, and today it’s been named among the contributors to a $8 million investment in another up-and-coming player ...
As unicorns falter, ThinkingPhones raises $112M to boost cloud-based calling
The sharp decline in venture capital activity that has been recorded over recent quarters didn’t stop ThinkingPhones Inc. from closing a mammoth $112 million round this morning to fund its growth effort. The cloud-based communications provider is rebranding to “Fuze” on the occasion in a bid to reflect the fact that its focus has expanded beyond ...
DataSift founder raises $3M for new privacy-focused analytics startup
Even though technology investors are a lot less generous with their capital than they were last year, raising funding for a bold new venture can still be a walk in the park if one has the kind of track record Nick Halstead does. The serial entrepreneur founded and led social analytics giant DataSift Inc. as ...
VMware overhauls its app virtualization software for the mobile workforce
The budding virtual reality industry has a long way to go before it’s ready to take on the enterprise, but if and when business users do start bringing their headsets to work, VMware Inc. will have come prepared. The vendor today unveiled a new iteration of its application virtualization client that aims to provide a unified experience across ...
Survey: 89 percent of companies are using IaaS
It’s no wonder that Amazon Web Services is approaching a $10 billion run-rate. A new poll of 1,060 companies from cloud management provider RightScale Inc. has found that 89 percent run applications outside the firewall, more than half of which are hosted on the retail giant’s very own infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Amazon’s customers are typically much further along ...
Data wrangling startup Trifacta takes on $35M from Greylock and friends
Triple-digit growth rates are hardly uncommon for analytics startups nowadays, but the over 700 percent sales increase that Trifacta Inc. claims to have witnessed last year should be enough to turn heads even among the most seasoned industry observers. That figure helped the emerging data wrangling provider secure an additional $35 million in funding this morning ...