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Report: Big Data only now heading toward inflection point
Business and technology leaders have never been more keen to exploit new sources of information, but most organizations are not yet backing that up with action, according to a recent survey of nearly 400 decision-makers published by Dell. The report sheds new light on the adoption of analytics highlighting that the trend is still very ...
Agricultural analytics startup FarmLogs harvests $10M to expand field operations
FarmLogs Inc. has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to expand its cloud-based analytics service aimed at everyday ranchers. The startup is one of the newest in the crop of new players to take on the mission of bringing analytics to farming in recent years. More established names are also entering the ...
PanTerra released analytics tools for internal communications
While a lot of recent new product activity has been focused on deriving meaning from public conversations in social media, PanTerra Networks Inc. is turning the lens back on internal communications with a new platform that the company says provide a complete view of employee and customer interactions across the corporate network for use in operational ...
Network stalwart Riverbed goes private in $3.6 billion buyout
Venerable buyout shop Thoma Bravo LLC and Teachers’ Private Capital, the investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. are taking Riverbed Technology Inc. off the stock market in a landmark $3.6 billion deal that will provide shareholders with a long-sought-after exit. The cash deal amounts to $21.00 per share, a 12 percent premium over the ...
Western Digital’s HGST furthers enterprise ambitions with purchase of all-flash array maker Skyera
HGST, the enterprise business of disk drive kingpin Western Digital Corp., officially jumped into the burgeoning flash array scene on Monday with the acquisition of a low-key startup dubbed Skyera Inc. that specializes in building ultra-dense storage appliances leveraging solid-state memory. The move marks another milestone in what Wikibon co-founder David Floyer sees as the company’s efforts ...
Teradata acquires RainStor to super-charge Hadoop archiving
Teradata Corp. is adding archiving to its burgeoning Hadoop arsenal with the purchase of RainStor Inc., a long-time partner that specializes in helping organizations squeeze as much information as possible into their storage space. It’s the fourth acquisition for the data warehousing giant in recent months and one of the most significant yet. Born out ...
OneLogin nets $25M to build identity management for the cloud era
OneLogin Inc. caught the wave of investor interest in cloud security startups on Tuesday, securing a $25 million financing round from Scale Venture Partners and existing backers to better address the rising demand for managed identify management services. The four-year-old startup is already a leader in the space, boasting over 1,000 corporate customers across more ...
Harmon.ie aims to bring order to cloud message chaos
Harmon.ie Inc. today became the latest player to address cloud sprawl with a new service that promises to consolidate off-premise data sources into a unified view of the user’s workflow. The launch extends the startup’s strategic focus beyond Microsoft’s and IBM’s collaboration portfolios to the more modern tools on the mobile worker’s belt. Known as ...
Microsoft unleashes biggest-ever upgrade for Azure
A month after infrastructure-as-a-service kingpin Amazon stole the industry limelight with the addition of native container support and on-demand event processing to its cloud service, Microsoft has responded with the largest upgrade to its Azure cloud platform since launch. The enhancements target the most sensitive Windows workloads still kept behind the firewall. To make it ...
UNIFi thinks users should extract their own data; backers agree to tune of $4.45M
UNIFi Software Inc. has picked up $4.45 million in seed financing in its quest to flip the data analytics model on its head by making users responsible for handling their own data extraction tasks, thereby speeding time-to-decision. UNIFi is addressing the delays inherent in the typical analytics scenario in which IT departments manually connect end-user ...