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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 ...
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 ...