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AppDynamics introduces Browser Synthetic Monitoring to help enterprises stay online
Monitoring is most often discussed in the context of the backend systems and processes powering an organization’s internal operations, but it’s an equally important priority when it comes to the corporate website, which serves as a lynchpin for communications with the outside world. And in consumer-facing segments such as retail and banking, it’s a mission-critical ...
AtScale raises $7 million in funding for Hadoop-based OLAP
The scalability and cost-efficiency that make Hadoop so attractive for organizations looking to extract the long-term historical patterns hidden in their unstructured data can also come handy at a more tactical level, but repurposing a technology built for one end to another is not a trivial undertaking. That’s the challenge AtScale Inc. hopes to overcome ...
Jut comes out of stealth with its spin on Google Dataflow for DevOps
There’s no shortage of tools promising to help organizations analyze the vast quantities of data coming off their on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure, but a newly launched startup called Jut Inc. thinks that there’s room for another. Its namesake analytics service is entering public beta testing this morning with a promise to pick up where the ...
Dell injects more DevOps into its Toad database management tool
While best known for selling data center equipment and consumer electronics, Dell has also quietly established itself a leader in information management, a position that the latest changes to the toolkit that helped bring its competitive efforts this far aim to cement. The update extends its value proposition further beyond the original pitch of automating ...
Snowflake launches its cloud-based data warehouse into general availability
Half a year after exiting stealth with $26 million in funding to bring the kind of scalability that Hadoop provides for unstructured data to traditional records, Snowflake Computing Inc. is moving forward with the plan and making its cloud-based data warehouse generally available. The launch opens a new competitive front against the legacy systems where ...
Portworx exits stealth with software-defined container storage service
The number of new startups to have entered the container ecosystem recently is now up to three in so many weeks thanks to the launch of Portworx Inc., which is bringing an automated storage service to the table that promises to help accommodate stateful applications. That addresses one of the most fundamental challenges standing in ...
What you missed in Cloud: Insight-as-a-service
The world’s top public clouds are able to accommodate as much data as an organization can throw at them, but that scalability often proves a double-edged sword when it comes to controlling costs. That challenge that returned to the fore last week after Komprise Inc. raised $6 million in funding to address the lack of visibility ...
VMware targets new DevOps tools at Docker
Alongside the fresh-faced startups showcasing their wares at DockerCon 2015 this morning is VMware Inc. with two new tools aimed at helping developers take better advantage of the wildly popular containerization engine in their projects. Or in the case of the first addition, provide the environment for running those projects. The aptly-named AppCatalyst is a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Optimized knowledge
Machine learning returned to the center of attention last week for the second time in a row after a little-known startup called SigOpt Inc. raised $2 million in funding from two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors to put a horizontal twist on the technology. Its namesake engine promises to automate the tedious process of ...
Open-source momentum: Red Hat sees revenue spike 23 percent in first quarter
While the proprietary giants of the enterprise are either struggling to shore up declining revenue streams or trying to shift towards a more open business model, Red Hat Inc. is cruising ahead at a comfortable double-digital growth rate that reached 14 percent in the first quarter. That helped its revenue in the three-month period pass the $481 million ...