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Teradata embraces BSON to court MongoDB adopters
Teradata Corp. is continuing its strategic shift toward supporting unstructured data at MongoDB World 2015 this morning with the addition of support for two new JSON variations to its namesake relational system aimed at accommodating modern web services, particularly those running on the popular document store. MongoDB is the single most widely-used NoSQL flavor in ...
HP flashes new 3PAR all-SSD arrays at under $1.50/gigabyte
Flash storage has passed another milestone on Wikibon’s downward cost reduction curve thanks to the introduction of new arrays from HP packing what are described as the biggest solid-state memory drives on the market with 3.84 terabytes of usable enterprise multi-level cell (eMLC) capacity each. The increased density is claimed to have helped bring the ...
What you missed in Big Data: Application analytics
Last week saw the emergence of yet more new applications for managing unstructured information after several major analytic players stepped up their competitive efforts. Salesforce.com Inc. led the charge with the release of new connectors that, for the first time, allow the integration of external data sources into its cloud-based business intelligence platform. That will ...
CA plunks down $480 million for Rally Software to get into the Agile development game
While the development community is adopting containers en masse for their potential in accelerating the creation and implementation of new code, the traditional enterprise is also moving toward cutting release cycles, albeit at a more calculated pace. CA Technologies Inc. hopes to seize that trend with the acquisition of Rally Software Development Corp. for appropriately ...
More momentum for vertical cloud computing as ClearDATA scores $25 million
The trend of top infrastructure-as-a-service giants pushing smaller players into niche markets has caught many traditional providers off guard, but you wouldn’t know that from ClearDATA Inc.’s new $25 million funding round. The capital will help fuel the development of its namesake public cloud, which has gained a tremendous amount of momentum on the back ...
Unprecedented IRS breach sees hackers make off with 100,000 Americans’ personal info
After a long string of attacks against private companies, it became the Internal Revenue Service’s turn to step into the sights of the black hat community this week after a massive attack that claimed the most sensitive private information of over 100,000 tax-paying citizens. The breach saw the agency’s own fraud prevention system turned against ...
Tegile bags a massive $70 million in funding to boost hybrid arrays
Tegile Systems Inc. is leveling the playing field in the hyper-competitive world of hybrid storage arrays with the completion of a landmark $70 million funding round from over a half dozen new and existing investors. The capital infusion brings its balance sheet much more up to par with that of its fastest-growing rivals. With a ...
MuleSoft moves up the stack with new data capabilities for its API management platform
Hot on the heels of raising $128 million in a record round of funding, MuleSoft Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to its cloud connectivity platform that promises to help organizations make more out of the data coming off the new services they’re hooking up to their networks. The launch represents a new strategy ...
IBM: Data theft is costing companies a fortune
The flurry of large-scale breaches that struck top retailers and banks in 2014 finally helped corporate decision-makers internalize what security professionals has been saying for years: hackers are not only becoming more aggressive but also more sophisticated. Concrete data on the trend, however, has been scarce – until now. A new survey of 350 recently ...
Basho combines its databases with open-source tech into an analytic bundle
The intensifying competition in the NoSQL world is driving Basho Technologies Inc. to move up the value chain with a new platform promising to provide a unified environment for storing and processing the growing amounts of unstructured data entering the corporate network. It’s the latest realization of the tried and true one-shop-stop approach to differentiation ...