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As container adoption continues to soar in the enterprise, so is the amount of venture capital being showered on the startups trying to monetize the trend. The funding tally increased once again this morning after Weaveworks Inc. announced that it’s raised $15 …
Docker launches a cloud-based security service for analyzing container images
The number of container startups to have announced major funding or product updates in the past 24 hours jumped to four this morning after Docker Inc. launched a new paid security add-on for its code hosting service. Born from an internal effort dubbed Project …
Low-profile DNS powerhouse Dyn raises $50M to push ahead of rivals
For a company with over a million paying customers, Dynamic Network Services Inc. (better known as Dyn) has been keeping a very low profile. But that is set to change as the website performance specalist moves to step up marketing efforts using …
Chinese investor leads $20M round into container orchestration startup Rancher
It’s apparently not just Silicon Valley investors who are excited about the fast-growing adoption of containers in the enterprise. China’s GRC SinoGreen was this morning named as the lead contributor to a $20 million funding round in Rancher Labs Inc., a startup …
Challenging GE and Bosch, Hitachi unveils homegrown Internet of Things platform
A little over a year after announcing plans to harness the vast amounts of data coming off the connected universe, Hitachi Ltd. is delivering on the promise with the launch of a homegrown analytics platform called Lumada. The move adds its name …
Wikibon explains the appeal of Oracle’s SPARC M7 chips
Given Intel Corp.’s near-complete dominance of the server processor market, it’s tempting to dismiss alternatives like the SPARC series from Oracle Corp. as hopeless underdogs. But while they may have fit that description until recently, Wikibon co-founder David Floyer says the situation is …
CoreOS gets $28M to fuel its fight against Docker
Another week, another container startup announcing a big round of funding. San Francisco-based CoreOS Inc. has secured a $28 million investment from a group of high-profile backers led by Alphabet Inc.’s private equity arm, GV, to promote its implementation of the lightweight virtualization …
What you missed in Big Data: Making order out of spreadsheet chaos
For a solution category dedicated to keeping data organized and accessible, spreadsheeting software can be immensely unwieldy at times. The issue returned to the fore last week after Alphabet Inc. integrated its BigQuery business intelligence service with Google Sheets to try and …
What you missed in Cloud: The software-as-a-service arms race continues
Last week saw several of the biggest names in the software-as-a-service market roll out major feature additions to their offerings as part of a renewed push to woo enterprise customers. Microsoft Corp. set the pace with the introduction of three new mobile …
EMC spin-off Pivotal raises mammoth $253M investment led by Ford
Unlike some of the other companies in the unicorn club, Pivotal Software Inc. won’t have to worry about raising additional funds anytime soon. The EMC Corp. spin-off today announced that it’s secured a $253 million investment from a group of backers led …