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What you missed in Big Data: The language of analytics
The ability to clearly articulate business goals is as important when interacting with databases as it is for interacting with colleagues, except often considerably more difficult. The issue returned to the center of attention last week when Neo Technology Inc. released the specification for the query language powering its widely-used graph store under an open-source license. The ...
What you missed in Cloud: New beginnings
The competitive lines of the public cloud were redrawn once again last week after two of the biggest names on the scene made major changes to their strategic positions. EMC Corp. set off the shift with the announcement of plans to integrate the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service assets scattered throughout its federation into one big division. The news came ...
Facebook brings its trendy mobile development framework to Heroku
While the world has its attention turned to the revamped search capability Facebook Inc. is rolling out for end-users, Mark Zuckerberg is marking an equally significant milestone in his plans to capture the developer community. The social networking giant has added the option to run its popular Parse mobile framework on the even more widely used Heroku ...
IT buyout wave continues as SolarWinds goes private for $4.5 billion
SolarWinds Inc. has become the third publicly-traded enterprise technology vendor to move off the stock exchange in so many weeks after agreeing to sell all of its outstanding stock to a duo of powerful investors for a hefty 43.5 percent premium over its last closing price prior to the announcement of the news. Added up, ...
Numerify bags $37.5 million to bring cloud-based BI into the IT department
The wording of the term notwithstanding, business intelligence can prove just as valuable of an asset for an organization’s technology practitioners as in the profit centers that have traditionally relied on it the most. That’s the pitch that helped Numerify Inc. raise $37.5 million in a third round of funding announced this morning that will sponsor ...
Latest EMC earnings provide clues of post-takeover future
With the countdown to its merger into Dell Inc. now officially underway, EMC Corp.’s latest earnings report is set to receive a great deal of scrutiny from an industry keen on understanding the new balance of power that will emerge in the aftermath. Within the numbers lie the first hints of the direction that the ...
Neo4j’s graph query language launches under standalone open-source license
Neo Technology Inc. made a lot of new friends in the open-source ecosystem this morning after releasing the query language powering its hugely popular graph store under an open-source license. The move officially clears the way for other vendors to implement the syntax in their own systems. The openCypher project, as the startup refers to the ...
Egnyte exploits hybrid cloud reach for new data visibility service
The shift up the value chain among file synchronization providers has finally caught up to Egnyte Inc., which is joining the fray this morning with the launch of new reporting service that promises to provide customers with better insight into how and where their data is stored. The addition attempts to exploit its main advantage ...
Canonical ships LXD as the default container engine in Ubuntu 15.10
Nearly a year after its introduction, LXD is finally coming of age. Canonical Ltd. will include the homegrown virtualization engine in the new version of its popular Linux flavor that is launching tomorrow as the default option for running containers in an effort to draw some attention away from the competition. Docker Inc. single-handedly put ...
Akamai invests in cloud governance startup FireLayers
Striking a balance between security and user freedom has proven one of the greatest challenges for CIOs in recent years. It first hit agenda after workers started taking corporate data outside the firewall with the proliferation of mobile devices and is now reemerging on an even bigger scale in the public cloud, where FireLayers Inc. hopes ...