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Percona debuts a MongoDB distribution to rival… MongoDB
Database specialist Percona LLC is taking the concept of co-opetition to a whole new level this morning with a release of an open-source distribution of the popular MongoDB document store that is described as better than the vanilla version on almost every major count. But where the fork boasts the arguably biggest advantage is performance. ...
What you missed in Big Data: Unlocking the potential of Hadoop
The industry effort to make Hadoop more viable for everyday enterprises gained a surprising new supporter last week in Pinterest Inc., which released an internally-developed tool that helps make insights produced in the framework accessible to other applications. Its entry into the fray adds another name to the already lengthy list of web companies involved ...
What you missed in Cloud: The price wars heat up
Last week witnessed a familiar sight in the public cloud after Amazon Inc. slashed the rate on its long-term storage service by a hefty 30 percent to $0.007 per gigabyte per month. The cut highlights a renewed focus on archiving that previously saw Google Inc. launch a promotion offering organizations the ability to park 100 petabytes ...
Microsoft plugs Skype and OneNote into Salesforce.com
After reportedly having its $55 billion acquisition bid for Salesforce.com Inc. rejected a few months ago, Microsoft Corp. is taking the second best option and integrating its core productivity services with the cloud giant’s customer relationship management platform. It’s the natural conclusion of the steady thaw between the two historical rivals that has transpired over ...
GitLab raises $4 million for its hugely popular open-source GitHub alternative
Developer collaboration services are back on investors’ agenda. Two months after leading a $1.5 million round into GitLab Inc., Khosla Ventures is coming back for more and pouring an additional $4 million into the startup’s coffers to help ramp its battle against the better-known and better-funded competition. GitLab is not the typical tech underdog. The Netherlands-based ...
EMC debuts all-in-one Server SAN module
The latest product of EMC Corp.’s intensifying efforts to diversify beyond the traditional disk arrays that presently account for the bulk of its revenues is a new block storage module that promises to make software-defined operating models more accessible for customers. It’s an implementation of the buzzed-about Server SAN architecture first outlined by Wikibon last year. ...
Iron.io raises $8 million for its distributed event-driven processing engine
The challenges of processing real-time data on a large scale are compounded when the rate of input is dynamic. Not being able to provision enough capacity fast enough to meet a sudden traffic spike can bog the entire operation down, while failing to deallocate that capacity after it’s no longer with the same speed opens the ...
Salesforce IoT Cloud puts machine-generated data in the hands of business users
Salesforce.com Inc. is kicking off its annual customer summit this morning with the introduction of a brand new cloud platform that bolsters its sales orchestration suite with capabilities for tapping the vast amounts of data coming off the connected universe. The launch is the culmination of a long-running internal effort to tap the new kinds of devices making ...
Datos launches out of stealth with $15 million in funding to bulletproof NoSQL databases
When a group of IBM Corp. veterans band up to tackle one of the most pressing operational issues in the enterprise, they are bound to attract investors’ attentions. And so it came to pass that Datos IO Inc. managed to secure $15.2 million in funding from two leading venture capital firms in the run-up to ...
Open-source API management underdog Restlet makes a new move for developers
The race to enable better service connectivity in the enterprise is heating up thanks to a new push from Restlet Inc. that is kicking off this morning with the acquisition of the startup behind DHC, one of the developer community’s most popular tools for testing application programming interfaces. It’s a match made in platform-as-a-service heaven. Both ...