Maria Deutscher
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It looks like the already overcrowded stream processing camp of the Hadoop ecosystem is about to receive even more competition, and from one of its most important partners no less. Confluent Inc. has revealed the completion of a $24 million funding round …
What you missed in Big Data: Networked insights
The public cloud is not the most intuitive place from which to track an on-premise network, but a growing number of monitoring startups are moving down that road in the name of high-level visibility, the latest of which exited stealth last week with …
What you missed in Cloud: Integrated experiences
Nearly a decade after cloud computing first reared its head in the enterprise, players like Microsoft Corp. are seeing demand for their services grow as fast as ever, but so is the competition. That is driving an industry-wide race for new ways …
Salesforce brings Desk.com into the embedded productivity era
Only days after introducing the ability for enterprises to embed its popular support delivery service into their mobile applications, Saleforce.com Inc. hopes to extend the same benefits to customers of the slimmed-down edition for small- and medium-sized businesses. Except, that is, the …
Elastic puts its open-source Big Data search engine in the cloud
The Netherlands’ Elastic BV is ticking another item off the fairly narrow list of ways to monetize open-source software with the launch of new hosted implementations of its hugely popular free search engine for unstructured data that offer a simpler alternative to …
Microsoft and rivals join forces in new R statistical analytics consortium
A week after the opposing camps of the containerization movement set aside their differences to agree upon a common competitive standard, the much bigger and better-known members of the R ecosystem are repeating history with the establishment of a new joint consortium to …
Broadening horizons? Oracle gets into web development to court SMBs
Amid faltering sales across its core traditional businesses, Oracle Corp. is moving aggressively to seize the momentum of its cloud business, the only major source of growth in an otherwise bleak revenue outlook, with new services. But the latest addition to the …
Adaptive Insights bags a massive $75 million to bring CPM back in vogue
Corporate performance management is not exactly at the top of the enterprise technology wishlist nowadays, but it remains in an inseparable part of operations even as decision-makers devout more and more of their attention to newer trends. The focus, however, is now starting …
Kyvos Insights launches native OLAP engine for Hadoop
The Hadoop ecosystem has a natural inclination towards variety. That first came to the fore with the release of Apache Storm two years ago, which has since been followed by no less than three other stream processing engines, and is now repeating …