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As if more proof was required of investors’ enthusiasm towards cybersecurity, Distil Networks Inc. has raised $21 million in funding this morning to help expand the development and marketing of its anti-bot technology amid equally fast-growing interest from the enterprise. However, it doesn’t …
New OpenDaylight Lithium release extends SDN to the Internet of Things
The organizations behind the OpenDaylight Project are moving another element to the right on the periodic table this morning with the third release of their free network controller, which brings a host of new features and integrations that significantly expand the scope …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …