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The sharp decline in venture capital activity that has been recorded over recent quarters didn’t stop ThinkingPhones Inc. from closing a mammoth $112 million round this morning to fund its growth effort. The cloud-based communications provider is rebranding to “Fuze” on the occasion …
DataSift founder raises $3M for new privacy-focused analytics startup
Even though technology investors are a lot less generous with their capital than they were last year, raising funding for a bold new venture can still be a walk in the park if one has the kind of track record Nick Halstead …
VMware overhauls its app virtualization software for the mobile workforce
The budding virtual reality industry has a long way to go before it’s ready to take on the enterprise, but if and when business users do start bringing their headsets to work, VMware Inc. will have come prepared. The vendor today unveiled a …
Survey: 89 percent of companies are using IaaS
It’s no wonder that Amazon Web Services is approaching a $10 billion run-rate. A new poll of 1,060 companies from cloud management provider RightScale Inc. has found that 89 percent run applications outside the firewall, more than half of which are hosted on the …
Data wrangling startup Trifacta takes on $35M from Greylock and friends
Triple-digit growth rates are hardly uncommon for analytics startups nowadays, but the over 700 percent sales increase that Trifacta Inc. claims to have witnessed last year should be enough to turn heads even among the most seasoned industry observers. That figure helped the …
Hired lands $40M to help companies find developers more easily
Much like every other part of business operations in the enterprise, recruitment is too undergoing significant changes as a result of the growing reliance on analytics for decision-making. The trend is spearheaded by a startup called Hired Inc. that secured $40 million …
DataGravity axes key staff as flash storage competition heats up
Organizations are buying more flash storage than ever before, but the fierce competition in the market is forcing some vendors to make difficult changes to their growth strategies. The latest victim of the squeeze is DataGravity Inc., which reportedly laid off a …
What you missed in Big Data: Taming the Internet of Things
The industry effort to bring the vast amounts of machine-generated data coming off the connected universe under control received a significant boost last week after not one but two major vendors joined the fray. The first to jump aboard was Microsoft Corp., …
What you missed in Cloud: Value-added functionality
While other leading cloud providers like Amazon Inc. regularly undercut the competition to try and attract new users, Salesforce.com Inc. hopes to set itself apart by moving in the opposite direction of the price curve. Last week saw the customer relationship management …
Flash startup Tegile slashes global headcount in pre-IPO cost cutting
Layoffs are a regular occurrence in the cutthroat world of enterprise technology, though the bearer of bad news is usually not a startup boasting triple-digit annual sales growth. Tegile Systems Inc. this week revealed that a sizable portion of its overseas staff …