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Keen IO open-sources its cloud-based analytics service
The best way to drive the adoption of a software product, especially one aimed at developers, is releasing the code for free, which is what Keen IO Inc. has done with its cloud-based analytics service this week. The underlying logic is now available on GitHub for anyone to modify and implement as they see fit. Data ...
Big Switch reboots its software-defined networking stack for OpenStack and VMware clouds
There are about as many flavors of cloud computing as there are of software-defined networks, but Big Switch Networks Inc. only concerned itself with the frontrunners when developing the new iteration of its virtual connectivity platform that debuted this morning. The widened integration with VMware Inc.’s popular management software and OpenStack aims to blur the ...
Apiary raises $6.8 million to empower the human element in API development
A low-key but influential startup called Apiary Inc. is kicking off the week with the completion of a $6.8 million investment meant to help shift the focus from managing the programmatic links that connect applications in the cloud to building them. It’s a key priority that has been overlooked in the broader rush to capitalize ...
Datameer bags $40 million for its Hadoop-powered BI platform
After a few brief weeks outside the spotlight, Hadoop is now back in the center of attention after Datameer Inc. raised another $40 million in funding to further pursue its vision of applying the open-source analytics framework to business intelligence. The investment tops off years of impressive growth in a segment known for its competitiveness. The startup has ...
Platform9 bags $10 million for its VMware-powered OpenStack distro
While some perceive OpenStack as a threat to traditional management paradigms, Platform9 Inc. sees an opportunity to combine old and new in order to provide organizations with the best of both worlds. And it now has $10 million in additional funding to pursue that goal courtesy of Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. The capital will ...
IBM launches Open Mainframe initiative to breathe new life into big iron
In the spirit of the open-source movement whose achievements it’s trying to harness in order to prep up the adoption of its mainframes, IBM Corp. is turning to the community for help with the endeavour. It’s recruited nearly a dozen other technology heavyweights to a new initiative focused on making big iron more appealing in ...
IBM teams up with Ubuntu for beefy new LinuxONE mainframes
Twenty years ago, the contrast would have been too great to believe. IBM Corp., the stalwart of proprietary enterprise technology, has teamed up with Canonical Ltd. for a brand new line of Linux mainframes geared towards modern cloud workloads. The alliance represents a culmination of its rekindled love-afraid with the open-source ecosystem. The initial spark ...
What you missed in Big Data: Where structured meets unstructured data
With the initial buzz surrounding unstructured settling down, the name of the game has become combining the new kinds of information pouring into the enterprise with traditional relational records for integrated analysis. That’s what Hewlett-Packard Co. faciliate to deliver with the latest version of its columnar database that debuted last week. The “Excavator” release of Vertica extends its ...
What you missed in Cloud: Open-source greatness
The open-source movement has become the driving force behind cloud computing over the past few years, and Red Hat Inc. intends to keep it that way. Its ambitions came to the fore once again last week following a strategic investment in an obscure partner called Tesora Inc. that is working to make OpenStack, the community-developed ...
RIFT.io snags $16 million for its NFV development platform
There is no shortage of startups promising to help organizations transition to software-defined networking, but most focus mainly on the logistics of separating transport capacity from the underlying infrastructure. The exception is RIFT.io Inc., which is launching out of stealth with $16 million in funding to simplify the implementation of the management services running above ...