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What you missed in Cloud: Reining in off-premise data
In what has become an increasingly frequent occurrence over recent months, data management once again emerged as the top priority for the cloud ecosystem last week. It was Google Inc. that put the topic on the agenda with the release of a landmark update to its managed MySQL service that promises to allow for relational records ...
German DevOps startup Seerene raises $5 million for its “Software Maps”
While the need to address the growing reliance on data among knowledge workers has added a great deal of complexity to corporate software projects, analytics also hold the key to solving many of the more fundamental issues that often hold back development work in the enterprise. At least according to Seerene GmbH, which raised $5 ...
Google pulls a Microsoft with new Cloud CDN service
The four content delivery networks that teamed up with Google Inc. earlier this year to provide low-cost traffic optimization for its public cloud probably won’t be too happy to hear about the new homegrown caching service that the search giant started rolling out this week. Much like Windows tablet manufacturers after the launch of Microsoft ...
Factual, the “neutral data company” powering Apple Maps, raises $35M
Thomas Jefferson wasn’t thinking about the modern analytics market when he coined the phrase “commerce with all, alliance with none”, but the approach has proven remarkably effective for Factual Inc., a startup that raised $35 million in funding today to take its growth strategy to the next level. More engineers will be brought aboard and ...
Analytics juggernaut Palantir raises another $129M on $20B-plus valuation
Even among the unicorns of Silicon Valley, Palantir Technologies Inc. stands out. The CIA-backed analytics juggernaut has bumped its total external funding past the $1.8 billion mark after securing an additional $129 million through a fresh capital infusion that was revealed in an SEC filing this week. The investment marks the latest installation of a ...
Gradle raises $4.2 million to bring build automation into the DevOps discussion
For a company that saw its software downloaded over nine million times since the beginning of the year, Gradle Inc. has managed to keep an impressively low profile. But that is about to change in the wake of a newly announced $4.2 investment from True Ventures and Data Collective that will enable the startup kick ...
SnapLogic bags $37.5 million from Microsoft and Silver Lake as integration war heats up
Christmas has arrived early for SnapLogic Inc., which secured $37.5 million in fresh capital from Microsoft Corp. and Silver Lake Partners as part of a funding round announced today to speed the adoption of its namesake cloud connectivity service. The startup is one of several working to make it easier for organizations to integrate the ...
Red Hat extends cloud management stack to Microsoft’s Azure
The decades-old animosity between Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat Inc. is now officially in the past following the release of a new version of the Linux distributor’s cloud orchestration platform that features support for Azure. The addition completes the first leg of the partnership that the two technology giants announced last month to integrate their ...
IBM opens up QRadar to let customers get creative about security
While IBM Corp.’s grandiose investments in cloud services and data processing may grab all the headlines, network protection is emerging as an equally important pillar of chief executive Virginia Rometty’s growth plan. The company is rolling out a new iteration of its QRadar Security Intelligence Platform today that promises to help defend corporate infrastructure against hackers ...
EMC extends open-source ambitions to the server side with new RackHD project
Although its merger into Dell Inc. is still about a year from completion, EMC Corp. is already starting to redraw the competitive lines of the data center. The company took another step outside its home turf in the storage layer today with the launch of a new open-source project called RackHD that aims to provide a ...