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Barely a week seems to go by nowadays without Microsoft Corp. making some gesture of support towards the developer community. Last Tuesday, the software giant pledged to increase funding for cloud projects that promote the public good, and now it’s expanding the …
Sweeping layoffs to hit VMware amid Dell-EMC merger worries
Word has leaked that VMware Inc. plans to lay off as many as 900 employees this week, or about five percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to trim operations. The move is reportedly timed to coincide with its …
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop is the star of the show
After a brief hiatus, Hadoop returned to the center of attention last week when private equity giant IVP and three other investors injected $30 million into the coffers of Qubole Inc. to aid its mission of simplifying the data crunching framework. The …
What you missed in Cloud: Bold moves
When Amazon Inc. enters a new market, prices almost always start falling, but usually not with nearly the same abruptness that the online security space experienced last week in the wake of the latest addition to its cloud arsenal. Jeff Bezos’ company …
Splice Machine bags $9M for its Hadoop-based RDBMS
Talk about old meets new. Splice Machine Inc. raised $9 million from investors this week to fund the development of additional features for its relational database, which follows the tried-and-true formula of structured record management with one notable exception: Information kept inside …
Cloudera Director 2.0 takes aim at off-premise Hadoop clusters
Running Hadoop outside the firewall is set to become much easier for customers of Cloudera Inc. thanks to a new iteration of its management automation framework that debuted this week. The release brings a hands-off provisioning feature that can spin up the …
Docker joins the unikernel bandwagon with new acquisition
Another year, another new trend entering the industry agenda. Docker Inc. set the wheels in motion this morning with the acquisition of Unikernel Systems Ltd, a U.K.-based startup founded by the original creators of the Xen hypervisor. Its namesake technology holds the potential …
Atlassian enhances its GitHub alternative to support distributed development teams
Atlassian Corp. plc has been at hard at work since hitting the stock exchange in December. The developer productivity powerhouse introduced a new iteration of its help desk software last week that promises to noticeably streamline technical support, and now it’s upping …
Qubole secures $30 million to grow its Hadoop-as-a-service
As the venture capital community’s enthusiasm for cloud computing and analytics reaches new heights, the startups at the intersection of the two trends are reaping the rewards. The newest beneficiary is Qubole Inc., which raised $30 million in funding from private equity …
Intel builds powerful security into newest Core vPro processors
While business users may be spending a growing portion of their time on mobile devices, the desktop is still the workhorse of the modern office, and requires the security to match. Intel Corp. hopes to make it easier for organizations to maintain …