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Data integration startup Xplenty lands $4M and makes its first acquisition
Moving information from one system to another can either take a few clicks or a few weeks depending on the use case. When it comes to large-scale analytics projects, data transfers are more likely to fall into the latter category, a situation that Xplenty Ltd. has spent the last six years trying to elevate. The ...
Microsoft lands $927M tech support deal with US Defense Department
Professional services don’t come up nearly as often during Microsoft Corp.’s earnings calls as Office 365 or Windows, but they’re nonetheless an important revenue source for the company, especially in the public sector. The technology giant on Monday won a landmark technical support contract from the U.S. Department of Defense that is worth $927 million. Under ...
Dynamic Yield raises $22M to make marketing more personal
A custom advertisement or targeted piece of content can go a long way toward winning over an online shopper, but the large volume of traffic that e-commerce companies receive makes it difficult to provide a personalized experience for every visitor. Dynamic Yield Inc. has taken it upon itself to ease the task. To fuel its ...
Price f(x) raises $4.1M to help companies set prices more intelligently
Deciding how to price a product is much easier said than done for large companies. The calculation needs to account not only for the cost of production, which is influenced by a variety of economic factors, but also for internal financial goals and one-off items such as rebates. It’s a daunting task that a Czech ...
Report: VMware has acquired software-defined networking startup PLUMgrid
VMware Inc. has been doing some last-minute holiday shopping. The virtualization giant Monday confirmed a report on SDxCentral that it closed a deal Friday to acquire PLUMgrid Inc., an early contender in the software-defined networking space. The startup was founded in 2011 by three Cisco Systems Inc. veterans to help companies better handle the growing amounts of traffic crisscrossing ...
Cumulus puts more Linux into its Linux-based software-defined networking platform
The versatile command line interface in Linux is one of its main appeals for administrators, but a comparable control mechanism is largely lacking from the versions of the operating system that are used to power data center switches. Or at least until today. Cumulus Networks Inc. this morning introduced a new release of its Linux-based ...
Google’s Project Wycheproof aims to tackle cryptographic vulnerabilities
Most companies don’t have a resident cryptography expert who can assess the encryption in their software projects, so they’re often vulnerable to attacks that seek to exploit poorly implemented code. Daniel Bleichenbacher and Thai Duong of Google Inc. want to help mitigate the threat with Project Wycheproof. The newly open-sourced toolkit provides a set of ...
Dell EMC officially joins OpenSDS Project for software-defined storage standards
Three months after an insider revealed that Dell EMC is preparing to join The Linux Foundation’s software-defined storage initiative, the move is now official. The data center giant today took its place on the OpenSDS Project’s roster of backers alongside fellow array makers Fujitsu Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Hitachi Data Systems. The three suppliers ...
Enterprise communications giant Mitel sells its telco business for $385M
Mitel Networks Corp. is looking to become a slimmer company in 2017. The Canadian unified communications provider today announced that it has struck a deal to sell its carrier business to Xura Inc., a portfolio company of Siris Capital Group, for $385 million. This sum consists of $350 million in cash and a $35 million ...
Amazon adds more secure edition of its QuickSight analytics service
Amazon.com Inc. has introduced an enterprise edition of its QuickSight analytics service that aims to help companies better secure the data they’re processing. The introduction comes a month after the company launched QuickSight into general availability. The biggest improvement over the standard tier is a built-in encryption feature for protecting records when they’re not being actively used. ...