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What you missed in Cloud: Horizontal disruption driving vertical change
History has proven time and again that however saturated, a market will always have room for a new player to disrupt the status quo. On the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) front, Ericsson is betting big that this force of change will emerge in the form of Apcera Inc., a startup that broke into the scene last week ...
What you missed in Big Data: funding the fight against cancer
Now that the analytics craze is settling down, the technology is starting to trickle down from the tech firms and global enterprises at the bleeding edge into more traditional parts of the market like the healthcare sector, where the potential for change is greater than anything we’ve seen so far. And the industry is shifting ...
Hortonworks courts enterprises with Apache Spark endorsement
Hortonworks Inc. is extending its sphere of influence deeper into the Hadoop ecosystem with a sweeping plan to support the Spark in-memory processing framework. The move is the latest in a string of initiatives from the software maker that are designed to make Hadoop more attractive for enterprises. Hortonworks hopes that the initiative will give it ...
Dropbox celeberates iOS 8 with new mobile release
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox Inc. is marking the much-anticipated launch of Apple’s iOS 8 with an updated version of its client app that takes advantage of the new functionality included in the new release and that bolts several other major improvements on top. The freshly released upgrade adds a Dropbox widget to the built-in Notification ...
Do surveys still matter? Qualtrics’ $150 million funding round proves they do
Sometimes, it’s best just to ask. Even in the era of real-time social media tracking and automated sentiment analysis, the humble survey remains a powerful tool. So much so that Qualtrics Inc. has raised a massive $150 million from two of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to help enterprises make ...
ARM’s fastest microcontroller yet will power next-gen IoT
ARM Holdings plc hopes to cement its dominance of the connected universe with a beefy new embedded processor aimed at paving the way for device makers to deliver more advanced features that were too complex for older microcontrollers. The new product fills an important hole in the semiconductor designer’s portfolio. With three billion units shipped ...
Heroku treats developers to DevOps-enabled dashboard, faster analytics
Users of Heroku’s popular cloud-based development platform logged into their accounts today to discover a revamped interface with an array of new capabilities that iron out many of the remaining kinks in building and deploying web apps on the service. The refresh represents one of the biggest updates to have come out of the Salesforce.com ...
Red Hat extends hybrid cloud campaign to public sector with gov’t consultancy platform
The federal government will spend more than $3 billion on cloud services this year, and cloud vendors have taken notice. Red Hat Inc. became the latest industry heavyweight to take aim at that opportunity on Tuesday with the introduction of a consultancy on-ramp aimed at paving the way for government agencies to pay as they ...
InfiniDB bows out of the database wars the open-source way
Consolidation is a natural part of any industry’s maturation, especially a segment as fiercely competitive as the database space, which has witnessed a massive influx of new players in recent years each vying for their own slice of the market. The resulting overlap in products and capabilities is starting to claim its first victims. The ...
Oncologist’s startup raises $3.7M to mobilize Big Data against cancer
As powerful analytics have proven to be in the business and technology worlds, nowhere is data more impactful than in the healthcare industry, where providing the right people with the right information at the right time can quite literally make the difference between life and death. That reality has created a tremendous market opportunity for ...