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Rubrik launches out of stealth with ambitious plan to “eliminate backup software” in the enterprise
A team of veteran engineers and technology executives exited stealth this morning to change how organizations protect their most sensitive information. The 22-strong Rubrik Inc. hopes to stop at nothing short of “redefining” the multi-billion-dollar data protection market. Or at least that’s what the Palo Alto-based startup claims, but details on how the all-star team ...
Microsoft’s open-source makeover a developer-only campaign – so far
While it went unmentioned in the landmark speech during which Satya Nadella (right) outlined his priorities as the newly minted CEO of Microsoft last March, openness has become a key imperative for the company in the year since. The changes are unmistakable. The site that Redmond quietly set up to chronicle its activities in the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Connecting the dots
Integration was the name of the game in the public cloud last week as a number of major players unified their disparate services around the latest enterprise use cases. Adobe Systems Inc. set the ball rolling by repacking three of its most well-known tools into a managed platform for handling documents. The suite is centered ...
What you missed in Big Data: Flying sparks
Startups took over the analytics agenda last week with a series of major launches spanning every step of the data processing lifecycle, starting from the initial collection stage. Tamr Inc. emerged at the head of the column after unveiling a free standalone version of its metadata aggregation technology. The software collects logs from the different ...
Couchbase moves into the microservices era with multi-dimensional scaling
Couchbase Inc. is breaking up its namesake document store and turning the individual components into discrete services that will deploy separately to make the whole more efficient. The overhaul represents a historic departure from the conventional way of building databases. Like practically every other enterprise application, the software that organizations use to manage their information ...
IBM plugs Twitter’s firehose into Watson
IBM is unleashing its artificial intelligence engine on the social sphere with new data integration options that offer to provide an unprecedented view of how consumers behave. The update is the first fruit of a partnership with Twitter Inc. that was originally announced last year. The alliance was unveiled at the end of October with grand ...
Health care under attack: Premera hit by mega breach
Premera Blue Cross has become the latest insurance provider to come forward about falling victim to hackers after revealing a massive attack on its systems that could affect millions of consumers. The breach reflects a growing threat against the healthcare sector that has intensified considerably in recent quarters. The industry reached the current alarm level ...
Dataminr nets a massive $130 million for Twitter-powered global change tracker
Marketers aren’t the only ones looking to keep track of what’s happening in the social sphere. A group of Wall Street heavyweights joined the fray this week after pouring $130 million into Dataminr Inc. to boost its efforts to help identify the shifting sharing patterns that often prelude major events around the world. Stock fluctuations ...
Birst lands another $65 million to bring business intelligence back into the spotlight
Birst Inc. has taken advantage of the renewed interest around business intelligence in the investment community as of the late to secure another $65 million on its journey to an eventual public offering. But there is still a long and precocious road ahead to the stock exchange. The freshly funded software-as-a-service provider is competing not ...
What you missed in Big Data: It’s raining metrics
The competition in the analytics ecosystem took a new turn to the public cloud last week after Looker Data Sciences Inc. raised $30 million in funding from a group of prominent investors for its business intelligence service. The capital infusion is meant to help seize accelerating demand in the enterprise. The startup has signed up ...