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Mirantis debuts hyperconverged OpenStack appliance
OpenStack marked another milestone in its breakneck evolution this week after the introduction of a new hyperconverged appliance from Mirantis Inc. that comes pre-integrated with its commercial distribution. The launch is aimed at extending the appeal of the platform to the majority of organizations that lack the will and resources to cobble together an implementation from scratch. ...
IBM lands massive $180 million cloud deal with Columbia Pipeline
In a much needed victory, IBM Corp. has landed a massive nine-figure contract to help Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. upgrade its infrastructure and internal employee support operations over the next five years to take advantage of the new trends in the data center. That encompasses all the most important elements of the technology stalwart’s growth strategy, ...
European code collaboration startup bags $1.5 million to overthrow GitHub
While the typical enterprise startup is lucky to attract a handful of users to help bolster its funding pitch before securing an initial seed investment, GitLab B.V. boasts of having signed up more than 100,000. And the fast-rising GitHub competitor is now announcing the completion of a $1.5 million round from early-stage backers to take its ...
Teradata taps Cloudera to power next-gen Hadoop appliance
The latest iteration of Teradata Corp.’s Hadoop appliance is making its official debut this morning with several major surprises, the biggest of which is the landmark addition of support for Cloudera Inc.’s popular distribution of the analytics framework. The update is the latest in the company’s efforts to diversify beyond its traditional data warehousing business. ...
Security behemoth Avast targets the enterprise with BYOD acquisition
Another week, another top consumer security provider making a move for the enterprise. Avast Software s.r.o., the maker of the world’s single most widely-used antivirus software, has acquired an emerging mobile service delivery startup for an undisclosed amount this morning in a renewed push into the corporate network. The San Mateo-based Remotium Inc.’s claim to ...
HashiCorp launches its open-core DevOps toolchain into general availability
The one-stop-shop value proposition has been around as long as the data center itself, but few vendors are able to deliver upon the promise nowadays due to the sheer scope of work involved in delivering applications at scale. One of the few exceptions to the rule is HashiCorp Inc., which officially launched its first commercial ...
DigitalOcean raises a humongous $83 million to take on AWS
Everybody loves an underdog, especially in the venture capital community. DigitalOcean Inc. has seized that sentiment once again to raise a massive $83 million in funding for its namesake public cloud, which climbed to the second spot on the list of the world’s largest infrastructure-as-a-service platforms over the last two years. That rapid ascent, remarkable even by the ...
HP infuses data smarts into enterprise backup
After a brief hiatus, the challenge of addressing data growth is back in the limelight thanks to the introduction of two new software solutions from Hewlett-Packard Co. meant to help organizations cut down on their storage costs. The launch takes aim at the so-called secondary sources that contain the bulk of the files on the ...
Kafka creators raise $24 million to move into stream processing
It looks like the already overcrowded stream processing camp of the Hadoop ecosystem is about to receive even more competition, and from one of its most important partners no less. Confluent Inc. has revealed the completion of a $24 million funding round this morning that will help augment its hugely popular messaging service with native ...
What you missed in Big Data: Networked insights
The public cloud is not the most intuitive place from which to track an on-premise network, but a growing number of monitoring startups are moving down that road in the name of high-level visibility, the latest of which exited stealth last week with $12 million in funding to help its spin on the concept stand out. ...