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Akana adds deep analytics to its API management platform
While the industry has its attention turned to the new-generation API management providers vying to fill the vacuum created by the slow reaction of their traditional rivals to the rise of cloud services and mobile devices, one member of the old guard is plotting a comeback that moved a major step forward today. Akana Inc. has ...
Continuum Analytics scores $24 million to put Python on the Big Data map
Chances are that if programming is brought into an analytics discussion nowadays, the first language to come up will be R, the open-source statistical processing framework backed by Microsoft Corp. and decades of use in the academia. But a startup called Continuum Analytics Inc. has now armed itself with $24 million in funding to try ...
EMC earnings hold steady in second quarter as VMware misses growth forecast
Much to the relief of shareholders wary of the waning demand for its traditional disk arrays, EMC Corp. didn’t deliver any major surprises in its second quarter earnings report this morning. Sales climbed an expected two percent – or more than six when adjusted for the stronger dollar – year-over-year to a round $6 billion. That ...
Netezza vets launch their new data warehousing startup from stealth with $20 million in funding
The analytics ecosystem became a little more crowded today after a startup called Cazena Inc. exited stealth with $20 million in funding and a new service that promises to help organizations harness their data cheaper and more effectively than the competition. It’s the same pitch everybody else is touting, but the value proposition goes much ...
Google gives Kubernetes its own foundation in celebration of 1.0 release
A few weeks after the movers and shakers of the container movement banded together to form a consortium meant to help establish common standards for the fast-growing technology, the same companies are teaming up again under the banner of Google Inc. to establish another foundation with an even more ambitious goal: drive adoption among traditional ...
Lucidworks brings its open-core enterprise search engine to Apache Spark
The latest player to jump aboard the Apache Spark bandwagon is bound to turn some heads in the upstream ecosystem. Lucidworks Inc. has added integration with the speedy data crunching framework in the new version of its flagship enterprise search engine that debuted this morning as part of an effort to catch up with the changing requirements of ...
Druva completes its cloud-based data protection puzzle with new governance service
With a significant and fast-growing portion of organizations’ files now residing beyond the firewall, governance has catapulted to the top of the operational agenda, a trend that Druva Inc. hopes to address through the latest addition to its namesake data protection service. The new functionality covers every major aspect of controlling the flow of information in a ...
Hybrid PaaS startup Apprenda nabs $24 million to take on the big leagues
The latest company to have seized the venture capital community’s seemingly insatiable interest in containers comes outside the ecosystem of Docker Inc. for a change. The Troy, New York-based Apprenda Inc. announced the completion of a $24 million investment this morning that will help fuel the development and marketing of its namesake platform-as-a-service stack. The software ...
Dell debuts 3D NAND drives for its all-flash arrays
The marketing people at Dell Inc. scored a major victory this morning after its SC Series became the first all-flash array family from a major vendor to support 3D NAND thanks to the introduction of new backwards compatible drives featuring the ultra-dense TLC implementation. CIOs should take note. Solid-state storage is superior to mechanical disk in practically every ...
How SIOS is bringing high-availability into the cloud | #CubeConversations
While a significant milestone in and of itself, SIOS Technology Corp.’s recent foray into machine learning represents only the latest leg of an innovation journey that traces back decades to the dawn of distributed computing in the enterprise. On the second episode of the two-part series dedicated to the launch, chief operating officer Jerry Melnick dived ...