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Hired lands $40M to help companies find developers more easily
Much like every other part of business operations in the enterprise, recruitment is too undergoing significant changes as a result of the growing reliance on analytics for decision-making. The trend is spearheaded by a startup called Hired Inc. that secured $40 million in funding this morning to promote its data-driven spin on traditional headhunting. The ...
DataGravity axes key staff as flash storage competition heats up
Organizations are buying more flash storage than ever before, but the fierce competition in the market is forcing some vendors to make difficult changes to their growth strategies. The latest victim of the squeeze is DataGravity Inc., which reportedly laid off a significant portion of its engineering team in the past few weeks. Former insider ...
What you missed in Big Data: Taming the Internet of Things
The industry effort to bring the vast amounts of machine-generated data coming off the connected universe under control received a significant boost last week after not one but two major vendors joined the fray. The first to jump aboard was Microsoft Corp., which launched a managed service for aggregating transmissions from the sensors and other ...
What you missed in Cloud: Value-added functionality
While other leading cloud providers like Amazon Inc. regularly undercut the competition to try and attract new users, Salesforce.com Inc. hopes to set itself apart by moving in the opposite direction of the price curve. Last week saw the customer relationship management giant introduce a new iteration of its platform that offers a host of ...
Flash startup Tegile slashes global headcount in pre-IPO cost cutting
Layoffs are a regular occurrence in the cutthroat world of enterprise technology, though the bearer of bad news is usually not a startup boasting triple-digit annual sales growth. Tegile Systems Inc. this week revealed that a sizable portion of its overseas staff has been terminated in what appears to be an attempt at deflecting the ...
IBM debuts new developer services for building data-driven apps
The pieces of IBM Corp.’s plan to woo developers came together this morning with the release of a major upgrade to its public cloud that brings four new services for automating how information is handled inside web applications. Headlining the rollout is a repackaged version of the managed database platform that the company obtained through ...
OpsClarity brings its automated monitoring tech to the Hadoop ecosystem
As if keeping tabs on how the different workloads in a data center interact wasn’t already difficult enough, Hadoop has another layer of dependencies among its internal components. The recently-funded OpsClarity Inc. hopes to simplify the monitoring of the analytics framework with a new iteration of its performance tracking software that adds support for all ...
Google and Verizon are reportedly teaming up against Amazon
For two underdogs in a market as competitive as the public cloud, joining forces is one of the only ways to push ahead. That’s how Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. reportedly ended up in talks to develop a joint infrastructure-as-a-service offering aimed at loosening Amazon Inc.’s grip on the enterprise. Insiders close to the ...
IBM joins $60 million funding round into blockchain startup Digital Asset
Big Blue appears to have developed an appetite for fintech startups. Two weeks after picking up Germany’s IRIS Analytics GmbH for its fraud detection technology, the company has contributed to a $60 million funding round in Digital Asset Holdings LLC. The capital infusion adds its name to a star-studded investor roster that also includes consulting ...
HPE targets big banks with new cloud-based analytics service
Banks and other companies in regulated industries have an exponentially larger number of legal obligations to meet than the everyday enterprise, which makes it that much easier to end up on the wrong side of the compliance fence. Hewlett Packard Enterprise became the latest vendor to tackle the issue this morning with the introduction of a new ...