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Nearly five months to the day after the release of the last major iteration, Cassandra 3.0 is rolling out into general availability with a couple of major improvements promising to help users handle their unstructured data much more efficiently. What they may …
Atlassian seeks to raise $250M in biggest-ever Australian tech IPO
The burgeoning Australian tech scene will soon have another representative on the U.S. stock market according to a newly published SEC filing that confirms Atlassian Pty Ltd.’s long-rumored plans for a public offering. The 13-year-old company hopes to raise as much as …
EMC reimagines Isilon NAS for the software-defined storage era
Customers should be relieved to discover that EMC Corp.’s looming merger with Dell Inc. isn’t distracting the leadership team from product development, at least not for the time being. The company is pulling back the curtains on a new iteration of the software …
VictorOps raises $10 million to take the hassle out of DevOps
Despite some recent consolidation, the IT monitoring segment remains among the most crowded in the entire enterprise technology world. Numerous providers from big names like New Relic Inc. to emerging startups such as Ruxit Inc. and BigPanda Inc. offer to use the vast …
Microsoft buys Secure Islands for reported $150 million to bolster hybrid cloud strategy
Microsoft Corp. is continuing its shopping spree in Israel with the acquisition of Secure Islands Ltd., a data governance provider that helps organizations control who can access their sensitive business documents and under what conditions. The outfit counts itself among the biggest …
Sysdig extends its container monitoring service to Google’s Kubernetes
Out of all the different sub-ecosystems that have evolved around Docker, perhaps none is as active as the one where Sysdig Inc. is competing. Monitoring vendors both large and small are vying to fill the void left by legacy solutions that were …
What you missed in Big Data: Understanding the consumer
Despite the rapid growth in the amount of data generated online, accurate customer information remains a rare commodity that can only be obtained from a limited number of sources, which have become competitive flashpoints for the analytics ecosystem. The fight erupted once again …
What you missed in Cloud: Redefining the social enterprise
The cloud ecosystem broke from its usual fixation on developers and business analysts last week to give social marketers their long-deserved share of the limelight. Salesforce.com Inc. provided the initial push with the release of a major update to its widely-used customer …
H2O lands $20 million to drive its open-source data science platform
The venture capital train cruising around the analytics ecosystem made its latest stop in the machine learning space to unload $20 million on H20.ai Inc., the startup behind the open-source algorithm development platform of the same name. The funding tops off a …
New Relic buys Digg co-founder’s DevOps startup to move down the cloud stack
The cutthroat cloud monitoring segment became a little less crowded this week after New Relic Inc. announced the acquisition of Opsmatic Inc., a startup that offers to provide operations teams with better visibility into their off-premise infrastructure, for an undisclosed amount. What …