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Machine learning returned to the center of attention last week for the second time in a row after a little-known startup called SigOpt Inc. raised $2 million in funding from two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors to put a horizontal twist …
Open-source momentum: Red Hat sees revenue spike 23 percent in first quarter
While the proprietary giants of the enterprise are either struggling to shore up declining revenue streams or trying to shift towards a more open business model, Red Hat Inc. is cruising ahead at a comfortable double-digital growth rate that reached 14 percent …
Tamr raises $25.2 million from HP and friends for its data lake antithesis
Hewlett-Packard is among the main proponents of creating so-called data lakes in the enterprise to consolidate disparate records for more efficient analysis, but that hasn’t stopped its investment arm from backing an emerging startup called Tamr Inc. that’s trying to sell CIOs …
The container front heats up as EMC throws its weight behind Flocker
Somewhat atypically for an open-source project, the first major release of Flocker is rolling out without bringing any major new capabilities to the table. But the update includes something of arguably much greater significance for the long-term prospects of the volume management tool: the support of …
Identity manager anchors VMware’s mobility strategy
Virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. on Tuesday laid out its enterprise mobile vision, roadmap and partnerships for what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger calls “business mobility.” “The IT environment is about bridging two worlds of cloud and the local client/server environments to enable business …
Cohesity exits stealth with $70 million to converge secondary storage
Serial entrepreneur Mohit Aron is marking another milestone along his long career this morning following his newest startup’s launch from stealth to change how organizations manage the passive data taking up much of their storage capacity. Its plan for accomplishing that borrows a page straight …
Vera launches metadata kill switch for Office 365
Securing the growing volumes of data that employees keep in cloud-based services such as Office 365 has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for CIOs, but it still pales in comparison to the difficulty of protecting those documents once they move …
Vertical focus: MapR launches new specialized analytic workflows for Spark
The latest entry into the effort to simplify large-scale analytics has come from MapR Technologies Inc. in the form of new templates designed to automate the implementation of three key emerging use cases for Spark. The release tops off a tremendous show …
Datto extends data protection to new frontiers in massive update
With the enterprise technology conference season now in full swing, Datto Inc. is seizing the moment to join the fray. The backup and recovery powerhouse unleashed a barrage of new updates at its annual partner meeting this morning that extend the reach …
Loggly adds derived fields to cloud-based monitoring service
The battle over machine-generated data is heating up with the introduction of an important new analytic capability from Loggly Inc. that promises to help administrators work faster through the vast and growing amounts of information coming off their infrastructure. It’s designed to …