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PernixData infuses operational insights into software-defined storage
Fast-growing storage startup PernixData Inc. is marking one of its biggest product updates since hitting the scene three years ago with the release of a new monitoring service that installs directly in the hypervisor kernel. That promises to give administrators unprecedented visibility into their VMware Inc. environments. Operating at roughly the same level of abstraction as ...
Salesforce.com integrates visual analytics capabilities across its entire cloud
The product floodgates are already opening a day before Salesforce.com Inc. officially kicks off its annual summit in San Fransico with the announcement of a major update to the native analytics component of its cloud suite that promises to make data insights a lot more accessible. That is set to noticeably affect the way users ...
Plexxi closes $35 million round led by mysterious investor for its converged SDN switches
Software-defined networking startup Plexxi Inc. is bolstering its coffers with a $35 million funding round announced this morning that saw existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners increase their stakes. But the biggest chunk of the capital came from a new backer that has chosen not to reveal its identity. ...
What you missed in Big Data: New heights
The analytics movement crossed another milestone in its evolution last week with the release of a new iteration of Apache Spark that brings large-scale stream processing closer to the reach of the traditional enterprise. That’s thanks to several key reliability improvements and an automated input control feature that together significantly reduce the amount of manual work ...
What you missed in Cloud: The big leagues heat up
Last week saw the major infrastructure-as-a-service providers return to the center of attention in the wake of a new round of feature rollouts that upped the ante another few notches for the public cloud. Google Inc. led the charge with the launch of an unconventional consumption option that allows users to purchase spare capacity in its ...
IBM jumps aboard the Node.js bandwagon
The Node.js community found a major new backer in IBM Corp. this week following its purchase of StrongLoop Inc., one of the leading commercializes of the web development framework. No terms were disclosed for the deal, but the startup did shed some light on where its products will go from here in a blog post ...
Spark 1.5 puts the pedal to the metal on in-memory analytics
Apache Spark expanded its lead as the prefered candidate for the open-source community’s new flagship analytics engine this week with the release of a landmark update that drastically improves processing speeds for every supported workload type. Much of that increase is due to an overhaul of the underlying operating scheme that has been in the ...
Google supercharges its mobile app for cloud admins
It’s not only line-of-business users who are taking more and more of their work outside the office. As organizations grow ever-dependent on external resources, so do cloud administrators find that their skills are also increasingly needed when they’re away from their stations, a demand Google Inc. hopes to tackle with the latest update to the ...
Q2 earnings show Box continues hemorrhaging red ink amid aggressive growth drive
Sacrificing near-term profits for long-term growth remains the strategy at Box Inc., which doubled down on marketing in the second quarter to produce an impressive 43 percent yearly revenue increase that briefly elevated its stock price after the earnings call yesterday afternoon. That didn’t last long, however, with its shares down over six percentage points as ...
CartoDB raises $23 million for its location-driven data visualization platform
Context is everything, in data visualization as in life. That’s the premise that helped CartoDB Inc. raise $23 million in funding from four of Silicon Valley’s most reputable venture capital firms this morning to step up the development of its namesake data visualization platform amid rapidly growing demand. Like better-known rivals such as Tableau Software ...