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What you missed in Cloud: Automation at scale
Automation emerged as a central talking point in the cloud ecosystem last week after Mesosphere Inc. announced that it nabbed a $73 million investment from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Inc. and a group of half a dozen other big-name backers. The capital will help finance the development of new features for its namesake orchestration framework, which promises ...
Cloudera buys cloud analytics startup Sense to help data scientists become more productive
Two years since its last venture capital round, Cloudera Inc. apparently still has plenty left over in the bank for strategic acquisitions. The Hadoop distributor this week picked up a Bay Area startup called Sense Inc. to get a hold of its cloud-based analytics platform, which provides a centralized environment for processing business information. Users ...
EMC and Goldman Sachs vets sell their cloud startup to collab giant Intralinks
Three years after leaving the corporate world to launch Verilume Inc., former EMC Corp. cloud boss Mike Feinberg and co-founder Dan Petrozzo are going back as part of the freshly announced sale of their startup to Intralinks Holdings Inc., a publicly-traded collaboration provider. The veteran executives and their team are bringing aboard valuable experience in ...
Report: 80 percent of companies using SaaS have lost business data
As the number of on-premise workloads being moved to the cloud continues to increase, the risks involved in storing sensitive business information outside the safety of the firewall are becoming more pronounced. A new survey of 1,037 enterprise technology professionals published by EMC Corp. subsidiary Spanning today reveals that nearly 80 percent have experienced some ...
Mysterious AI startup bags $4.7M to put an artificial brain in every application
The open-source ecosystem contains an abundance of tools for building artificial intelligence software, but only a handful of companies can afford to hire the specialists with the necessary skills to put them to use. A startup called DimensionalMechanics Inc. is launching out of stealth mode this morning with $4.7 million in funding to try and level ...
EMC files yet another suit against Pure Storage over disputed deduplication tech
A week after winning $14 million in damages as part of its long-running patent dispute with Pure Storage Inc., EMC Corp. is back for round two. The array maker is asking the Delaware court handling the case that the fine be increased to account for several previously undisclosed instances where its rival allegedly violated its ...
Mattermark nabs $7.3M for its business-oriented search engine
There is no shortage of services for finding competitive intelligence on the web, but most come with some sort of drawback. Google is second to none at running generic queries yet falls short when it comes to fetching niche data like regulatory filings, while many business-oriented search tools are limited to a specific type of ...
Google, Microsoft and other tech giants team up to fix email security
The proportion of inbound messages that arrive in Gmail properly encrypted has jumped from 50 percent to nearly 70 percent over the past two years, a figure that Google Inc. expects will continue to increase as providers around the world strengthen their security capabilities. But the remaining emails that are still being sent in a plain-text ...
What you missed in Big Data: Mapping out the customer journey
Customer engagement emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics discussion last week after Google Inc. unveiled a new business intelligence suite designed to help organizations gain a better understanding of their customers. The main highlight of the bundle is a dashboarding tool that makes it possible to visualize the massive amounts of demographics and ...
What you missed in Cloud: Automation through collaboration
Last week saw the spirit of collaboration envelope the cloud ecosystem as several of the biggest names in the business partnered up to help their users become more productive. Box Inc. and Okta Inc. led the charge by expanding the integration between their respective platforms to help ease the task of protecting corporate data from theft. ...