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Industrial group led by GE invests $12M in edge analytics startup FogHorn
Organizations are rapidly expanding their analytics infrastructure to accommodate the growing amounts of machine-generated data pouring into their networks. And since the connected universe is largely unfamiliar territory, they’re seeking out the help of providers like FogHorn Systems Inc., which closed $12 million in funding this morning to capitalize on the trend. Three of the ...
LinkedIn scoops up Chicago’s PointDrive after using its sales tool for a year
For a startup that has only been around since 2013 and raised no significant outside funding, PointDrive LLC is quite the overachiever. The Chicago-based outfit announced today that it’s been acquired by LinkedIn Inc. after a year of serving as a software supplier for its sales force. The social networking giant has been using PointDrive’s namesake ...
Office 365 gets new AI-powered editing and research functionality
Microsoft Corp. is gearing up to release a major update for its Office 365 productivity suite. The biggest changes are coming to Word, which is set to receive two new editing features that the company says employ artificial intelligence to streamline the writing process. The first new addition is called Editor for Word and promises to ...
Codeship nabs $7M for its continuous integration service
More and more venture capital is flowing into the Docker ecosystem as investors seek to capitalize on the rapidly growing demand for containers. The latest beneficiary of this trend is Codeship Inc., a provider of continuous integration (CI) technology for microservices projects that secured $7 million in financing today. The entirely of the funding came ...
Brocade’s Wi-Fi subsidiary moves network management to the cloud
Ruckus Wireless Inc. has apparently been busy since its $1.5 billion sale to Brocade Communications Systems Inc. earlier this year. The Wi-Fi equipment provider today unveiled a new hosted management platform that promises to let organizations centrally configure, maintain and monitor their wireless infrastructure from the cloud. The service is described as a more convenient ...
Teradata bolsters Hadoop consulting biz with new UK acquisition
There’s much more to the Hadoop ecosystem than just software. The market also boasts numerous professional services providers that focus on helping companies deploy and customize the analytics platform, a segment where Teradata Corp. has emerged as a frontrunner. The vendor cemented its position this morning by acquiring a UK-based consultancy called Big Data Partnership ...
What you missed in Big Data: Acquisitions are reshaping the analytics world
When an established vendor identifies a gap in its product lineup, acquiring a startup with the necessary technology is often faster and more convenient than trying to build a competing solution from scratch. The latest example of this dynamic came last week when Workday Inc. scooped up Platfora Inc. to obtain its namesake business intelligence ...
What you missed in Cloud: Security and machine learning top the agenda
The one-upmanship in the public cloud continued as usual last week, with several major providers rolling out new features for their infrastructure-as-a-service platforms. Microsoft Corp. led the charge by launching a breach prevention tool called Azure Security Center that aims to help customers deal with hacking attempts more effectively. The service’s arguably biggest selling is ...
Workday picks up BI startup Platfora to boost analytics chops
A month after acquiring Zaption Inc. for its online learning platform, Workday Inc. is making another strategic startup buy. The HR automation giant this week signed an agreement to purchase a venture-backed analytics provider called Platfora Inc. that sells Apache Spark-powered business intelligence software. The outfit harnesses the open-source analytics engine’s performance to help organizations ...
Salesforce buys monitoring startup Coolan to optimize its internal infrastructure
Providing cloud services on the kind of global scale that Salesforce.com Inc. does involves a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes. To try and ease the load on its IT division, the company this week acquired Coolan Inc., a San Mateo startup focused on automating data center monitoring operations. The outfit has developed a ...