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What you missed in Big Data: Chasing the competition
The buzz at Amazon Inc.’s annual re:Invent cloud conference last week spilled over into the analytics world following the introduction of a new business intelligence service promising to simplify the visualization of data stored on its platform. The aptly-named QuickSight comes with the usual promises of better pricing and easier setup compared to traditional on-premise tools. ...
What you missed at re:Invent: Container mania
Five days every year, the industry takes a break from its usual competitive routine and turns its collective attention to Las Vegas, where Amazon Inc. sets the agenda for the next 12 months in the public cloud at its re:Invent conference. Last week’s summit was no different, with a slew of launches spanning all the major ...
Segment raises $27 million for its data lake lite
The notion of centralizing all of an organization’s data in a single repository to improve access for users was shot down almost as soon as it entered the discussion due to the impossible logistics of the undertaking. But there do exist some narrower use cases where the benefits of the model exceed the hassle, which ...
EMC teams with Mesosphere in open-source storage push
Only a few weeks after entering an agreement to help Microsoft Corp. bring its namesake data center orchestration framework to Windows, Mesosphere Inc. is announcing a partnership with another major vendor hoping to secure a seat at the software-defined table. EMC Corp. sees the same promise in the startup’s technology as Redmond. The Mesosphere Data ...
Pure Storage tanks after lukewarm IPO in latest flash disappointment
Wall Street doesn’t seem to be nearly as enthusiastic about the applications of solid-state memory in the enterprise as storage practitioners judging by the reception to Pure Storage’s IPO. The array vendor, which saw its revenue quadruple last year, is now trading below the target price range of yesterday’s offering after failing to end flash’s bad streak ...
AppDirect joins the unicorn club following $140 million funding round
The latest addition to the billion-dollar valuation club is a six-year-old startup called AppDirect Inc. that raised $140 million in a funding round announced this morning to do for the enterprise what the App Store did for mobile content consumption. The difference is the breadth of the challenge that it’s attempting to solve. Requiring developers ...
IBM acquires Cleversafe to scale its public cloud into the exabytes
Barely two weeks after snapping up a low-key consultancy to help boost its struggling professional services division, IBM Corp. is making another strategic acquisition aimed at augmenting an even more important part of its business: The SoftLayer public cloud. The object storage technology that Cleversafe Inc. brings to the table should provide a valuable asset ...
Investors pump $85 million into Code42 to fill the cloud storage gap
Backup is one of the main use cases for cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Box, but the big providers are focusing most of their competitive efforts elsewhere in areas like collaboration, a dynamic that has noticeably affected the breadth of their data protection capabilities. Code42 Software Inc. hopes to exploit that Achilles hill ...
Robin Systems raises $22 million to supercharge Spark clusters
The need for CIOs to support fast-growing data volumes with budgets that aren’t growing nearly as fast has spurred a renewed focus on efficiency among analytics vendors, some of which are going as low as the chip level in search of ways to help customers squeeze more out of their hardware. But that effort largely ...
Israel’s Morphisec bags $7 million pull the rug from under hackers’ feet
The prerequisite to targeting a system or an application is finding a suitable attack vector, which will become a lot harder for hackers if Morphisec Information Security Ltd. has its way. The Israeli startup announced the completion of a $7 million round this morning meant that will help spread its namesake memory randomization technology to more ...