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Palantir secures first $60M chunk of projected $400M round as market asks, “Who?”
A Big Data analytics company few people have even heard of is on track to close a massive $400 million funding round that could bring its total amount raised to well over $1 billion. In fact, at an estimated $9 billion, Palantir Technologies Inc. already commands more than twice the valuation of VC darling and Hadoop ...
Remember hardware? HP says it still counts | #HPDiscover
The growing focus on automation is shifting the industry’s attention away from infrastructure to the increasingly sophisticated software running on top, but the underlying building blocks remain as important as ever, according to Hewlett-Packard Co. converged systems boss Brent Allen. The executive appeared on theCUBE for the first time at the company’s recent product event ...
Workiva, maker of reporting software for public companies, goes public
Workiva Inc. became a model customer for its own products on Friday after it went public on the New York Stock Exchange in an offering that put 7,200,000 shares up for grabs at a price of $14, the midpoint of the $13 to $15 range it set in October. The launch completes the circle on the Utah-based ...
What you missed in Cloud: VCs pile on the bandwagon
Last week was a good one for cloud startups as investors flocked to the new crop of contenders hoping to make their mark on the industry amid the intensifying struggle for dominance. Mesosphere Inc. charged ahead on Monday with a $36 million round from Khosla Ventures and existing investors to fund its efforts to build a new ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hortonworks IPO stokes Hadoop fans
The analytics market passed a historic milestone last week when Hortonworks Inc. became the first Hadoop distributor to go public, beating rivals Cloudera Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc. to the punch. But all three companies can take heart in the first-day performance of the HDP stock, which soared past the initial $16 target price to ...
Cisco campaigns to push analytics to the edge of the network
The industry shift away from proprietary switches and routers is pushing backbone connectivity kingpin Cisco further beyond the data center to the edge of the network, where it’s now taking aim at the $7.3 trillion opportunity to provide analytics for the Internet of Things. The company has embarked on a mission to bring intelligence from ...
Hortonworks rockets past $1 billion valuation on first day of trading
Hortonworks Inc. raised the price of its initial public offering to $16 per share on Thursday from the original target range of $12 to $14 set earlier this month, but Wall Street still liked what it saw, kicking up Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP) shares more than 60 percent on its opening day. The repriced IPO bagged a ...
HP focuses software-defined data center strategy on user choice | #HPdiscover
The software-defined data center is usually thought of in terms of its components, but Hewlett-Packard Co. is focusing on the big picture, according to the head of worldwide marketing for its key converged infrastructure business. Paul Miller returned to SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the hardware titan’s recent customer event in Barcelona to share how that approach ...
Investors fuel DigitalOcean’s rocket with $50M loan guarantee
DigitalOcean Inc. has secured $50 million in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group LLC, a prominent New York hedge fund with north of $60 billion under management, to expand its wildly popular public cloud into new markets. The investment tops months of record growth that saw the startup draw tens of thousands of new users ...
Grow wants to unify sprawling cloud data sources
A new startup called Grow Inc. hit the industry radar on Tuesday after raising $1.5 million in funding to launch a platform that attempts to unify data from different corners of the cloud into a complete view of operations for small- and medium-sized businesses. Such a solution is long overdue. Between the continuous stream of social ...