Maria Deutscher
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Providing technical support is an unavoidable part of the modern IT professional’s work, but much of the time spent handling service requests nowadays is wasted on unnecessary drudgery that can be automated with the right tooling. Atlassian Inc. hopes to fill the …
Looker bags $48M from Kleiner Perkins to grow overseas
Another week, another business intelligence startup raising funds to tap the exploding demand for analytics. Looker Data Sciences Inc. this morning announced the completion of a $48 million investment round led by venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) that …
Cisco tackles cloud overspending with new service
With worldwide public cloud spending estimated to have reached $70 billion last year, the market for cost management solutions is naturally on the rise, both in terms of revenue and the number of vendors looking to carve out a slice of the …
Distil Networks bolsters bot hunting service with first acquisition
Although the security operations of the modern enterprise are becoming increasingly automated thanks to the growing use of machine learning in network protection software, a human touch is still needed to pull everything into working order. That’s the reasoning behind Distil Networks …
Elastifile raises $35 million for its universal all-flash storage stack
Just as declining memory prices have given rise to new analytics solutions that avoid the reliance of traditional data processing software on cheaper but slower spinning disk, so is the increasing accessibility of flash driving a shift to faster architectures over in …
Import.io raises $13M to bring web scraping into the analytics discussion
There are numerous vendors tackling the challenges of data aggregation in the enterprise, but the majority focus only on the private records that companies keep behind the firewall and in their equally closely-guarded cloud deployments. Import.io Inc., by contrast, is working to …
Software-defined storage startup Scality snags funding from HPE
In its first return to investing since becoming an independent company three months ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a follow-up contribution to the $45 million August funding round of Scality Inc., an emerging software-defined storage provider. The capital infusion puts the …
Centrify tackles IT outsourcing security risks with new access controls
As the complexity of enterprise technology infrastructure continues to increase, so does the number of outsourced personnel CIOs are bringing aboard to support their operations. The trend is opening a new channel of attack for hackers that Centrify Inc. hopes to close …
What you missed in Big Data: Redefining business intelligence
Business intelligence returned to the center of attention in the analytics universe last week after Sisense Inc. received $50 million in funding from a group of investors led by private equity heavyweight Bessemer Venture Partners. The capital will be spent on widening the …
What you missed in Cloud: Strategic decisions
Last week saw the public cloud ecosystem return to business in full force to try and make up for the time lost during the holiday season. Infrastructure-as-a-service kingpin Amazon Inc. led the charge with the announcement of a sweeping price cut for …