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IPO shelved? LogRhythm raises $50M amid public offering rumors
Two months after word leaked that it’s pursuing a public offering, LogRhythm Inc. appears to have had a change of heart. The fast-rising network protection provider announced today that it’s raised $50 million from private investors in a funding round likely meant to delay its stock market debut. The anonymous insiders who leaked LogRhythm’s plans to Bloomberg ...
Glint bags $27 million for its HR analytics platform
Maintaining employee morale is often much easier said than done in large organizations with upwards of thousands of people on the payroll. One of the startups working to ease the task is Glint Inc., which raised $27 million from a group of investors co-led by Meritech Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners this morning to ...
VMware takes its virtualization software to the cloud, again
VMware Inc. may end up becoming a force to be reckoned with in the infrastructure-as-a-service market after all, just not the way it originally planned. The computer and network virtualization company today debuted a new platform called Cloud Foundation that promises to help organizations manage and secure their off-premise workloads more effectively. It combines VMware’s flagship vSphere ...
What you missed in Big Data: Identifying complex patterns
The intensifying competition in the analytics world is driving many startups to seek additional funding or, if that’s not feasible, a buyout. One of the most recent examples is Hadoop hosting provider Altiscale Inc., which was last week revealed to be in process of finalizing a $125-million-plus acquisition agreement with SAP SA. The deal is ...
What you missed in Cloud: A changing competitive landscape
As Amazon and Microsoft consolidate their hold over the public cloud, smaller providers are being forced to change strategies. Rackspace Hosting Inc. became the latest such contender to shift gears last week by accepting a $4.3 billion takeover bid from private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC. The deal will take the company off the stock ...
Intel unveils new SSDs for data centers, connected devices and PCs
A week after its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco, Intel Corp. is making headlines once again by launching six new SSDs for three different markets. The fastest of the new additions is the enterprise-oriented DCP3520, a 0.2U drive that can handle to 375,000 random reads and 26,000 random write operations per second while also providing ...
Report: SAP is buying Hadoop-as-a-service startup Altiscale for over $125M
It appears that more consolidation is on the way for the analytics ecosystem. An anonymous insider has told VentureBeat that SAP SA is in the final steps of closing a $125-million-plus agreement to acquire Altiscale Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup that provides managed data processing services. The outfit started out in 2012 with a hosted implementation of ...
IBM follows Amazon and Microsoft to South Korea
IBM has expanded its global cloud network once again by launching a new hosting facility in the South Korean city of Pangyo, which is located a short drive away from Seoul. The data center is part of a collaboration between the vendor and regional technology giant SK Holdings C&C Co. that aims to address the growing local demand ...
Shippable revamps its CI/CD platform to streamline DevOps workflows
Rolling out application updates is set to become much easier for Shippable Inc. users. The startup today launched a new iteration of its continuous deployment platform that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of effort involved in creating code release pipelines, particularly for large enterprise projects. The arguably biggest time-saver introduced in the release is the ...
Auth0 raises $15M to make building authentication functionality into apps a breeze
Most of the authentication providers out there cater to IT personnel seeking to better regulate how line-of-business users access third party services, but Auth0 Inc. is different. The Washington-based outfit is working to help companies improve the security of their own software, an effort that received a$15 million boost today from Trinity Ventures and three other backers. ...