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ThoughtSpot raises $50M to make BI as easy as using Google
The idea of making complex analytics software more like the sleek consumer apps that workers use when they’re off the clock is nothing new in the vendor community. But no provider has taken the concept quite as far as ThoughtSpot Inc., which raised $50 million as part of a new funding round announced this morning to ...
SAP’s in-memory Hana database can now double as a graph store
At SAP SE’s annual user conference in Florida this week, data management is dominating the agenda. The company is showcasing a new version of Hana that makes it possible to identify relationships between the records in a deployment without having to use an external graph store. The addition thereby avoids the bandwidth cost of regularly ...
ServiceNow launches a cloud service for troubleshooting the Internet of Things
For a company that makes connected medical devices or industrial manufacturing equipment, handling support tickets takes much more than a help desk team trained in answering frequently asked questions. The troubleshooting process often requires performing complex technical analysis that is normally beyond the ability of the average care representative, an issue ServiceNow Inc. promises to ...
LinkedIn open-sources Ambry, its ultra-scalable object store for media files
Though the profile pictures, company logos and other images that litter LinkedIn often blend into the background without receiving much attention, they take up a significant portion of the user’s view. And added up across the many billions of pages that the social network hosts, the amount of media involved far exceeds the capacity of ...
Dell says its new AI-powered antivirus can block 99 percent of malware
Dell Inc. usually isn’t the first vendor that comes up when security is discussed, but it boasts a broad arsenal of endpoint protection tools that are widely used in the enterprise. And now the company hopes to win over small- and midsize organizations too with the introduction of a new specialized antivirus that incorporates artificial ...
What you missed in Big Data: Enter Parsey McParseface
There’s still a long way to go before complex human traits like humor can be properly emulated by artificial intelligence, but Alphabet Inc. is already starting to inject wit into the research effort. The company last week published a machine learning model called “Parsey McParseface” that can automatically map out the linguist structure of any ...
What you missed in Cloud: The competition reaches new frontiers
The fight for cloud dominance went global last week when Microsoft Corp. announced that it’s launching four new data centers in Canada and South Korea to better serve local Azure users. Redmond is targeting two groups in particular: Organizations with latency-sensitive applications that can’t wait for requests to travel back and forth from an offshore ...
AtScale raises $11M from Comcast and friends for its Hadoop BI platform
During funding negotiations, the ball is usually in the court of the startup at the receiving end of the transaction. But in the case of AtScale Inc.’s latest financing round, it was investors who came knocking on the door to buy a stake, according to founder and chief executive Dave Mariani. The firm announced today ...
Successful Acacia IPO raises new hope for tech startups eyeing stock market
Acacia Communications Inc.’s stock price is up more than 30 percent on its first day of trading in what marks the technology sector’s first successful public offering of the year. For the network equipment maker, the occasion is made all the more memorable by the fact that it managed to raise a hefty $103.5 million ...
Report: Amazon is investing in a new submarine Internet cable
It takes much more than a local data center to extend a public cloud like Amazon Inc.’s into a new market. The undertaking also requires a robust networking backbone capable of linking the facility to the rest of AWS reliably, securely and with as little latency as possible. As a result, it doesn’t come entirely ...