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What you missed in Big Data: Operational insights
It sometimes seems as if the industry produces a new option for storing the vast quantities of information that organizations are ingesting every other day, and last week was no exception. Microsoft Corp. took the lead with the launch of a new data warehousing service on its public cloud that offers a more cost-effective alternative to ...
What you missed in Cloud: Hybrid alliances
Partnerships are hardly a rare occurrence in the enterprise technology world, where every system and service are seemingly entwined one way or another, but the alliance between IBM Corp. and Box Inc. announced last week managed to grab the headlines nonetheless. The two giants of their respective segments will collaborate to move cloud computing deeper ...
Red Hat supercharges its software-defined storage stack for improved performance
Starring the eleventh annual Red Hat Summit in Boston this week are new releases of the company’s core software-defined storage technologies that promise to bring the performance and efficiency of commodity-based capacity much closer up to par with the standards of the traditional enterprise. The biggest improvements are to its block and object service. Red Hat ...
Redis Labs (ahem) caches in on NoSQL craze with $15 million funding round
The funding train that has been making stops around the database world lately officially arrived in the caching segment this morning after Redis Labs Inc. announced a $15 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures to seize the exploding demand for its namesake key-value store. The cash infusion marks a welcome change of ...
BitSight bags $23 million to operationalize threat intelligence
A day after HackerOne Inc. secured $25 million in funding to help organizations crowdsource data about vulnerabilities in their services, another startup called BitSight Technologies Inc. is bringing threat intelligence back into the limelight with an eight-digit investment round of its own aimed at accomplishing the exact opposite goal. Its namesake service promises to help ...
Datameer integrates pre-packaged analytics into its Hadoop BI platform
Gartner’s recent findings about the continued complexity woes hampering Hadoop adoption sent ripples through the analytics ecosystem, but the shockwave hasn’t been felt nearly as severely at Datameer Inc., which is consciously working to address the challenge. The business intelligence provider is now taking its efforts to the next level with the introduction of the first in ...
Salesforce.com goes embedded in mobile support push
Providing customer care on mobile devices is about to get a lot easier if Salesforce.com Inc. has its way with the new embedded implementation of its Service Cloud that debuted this morning. It’s an ambitious expansion of the native support feature that rolled out last year in what can retrospectively be seen as an effort ...
Pure Storage snatches EMC CMO Jonathan Martin as poaching lawsuit looms
The off-the-field rivalry between Pure Storage Inc. and EMC Corp. flared up again this week after the latter’s chief marketing officer became the latest of its senior executives to defect to the flash array startup. The landmark hire comes in defiance of a pending anti-poaching lawsuit designed the try and halt the transfer of talent. ...
Red Hat follows SAP into Samsung’s vertical-specific love triangle
The battle over vertical-specific functionality is heating up in the mobile universe with the announcement of a new partnership between Red Hat Inc. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. that will see the development of a series of niche business applications for Android. The move is a response to a similar agreement that IBM Corp. struck ...
Box adds programmatic governance to protect sensitive documents against hackers
The more than 45,000 organizations that keep data in Box Inc.’s hugely popular file sharing service should now have an easier time ensuring their documents meet security requirements thanks to the addition of a new governance addon that promises to provide programmatic control over access rights. It’s an extension of the automated policy enforcement functionality originally introduced last ...