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What you missed in Cloud: EMC making lock-in work as startups push for openness
The sheer number of moving parts involved in piecing together a full-blown hybrid cloud with comparable scalability and cost-efficiency as top infrastructure-as-a-service platforms make it all but impossible for the majority of organizations to fully realize the model. For EMC Corp., however, the solution to one of the biggest challenges that the industry has faced ...
What you missed in Big Data: at the intersection of machine data and visualization
The two biggest names in analytics both made their presence felt this week in a last-moment burst of activity before the industry turns its attention to Strata + Hadoop World 2014. Splunk set the tone after pulling the curtains back on a brand new version of its flagship log management platform that makes the power ...
EXCLUSIVE video: The woman at the center of Microsoft CEO Nadela’s sexism controversy speaks out on theCUBE
Something rather unexpected happened during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing yesterday. Appearing on a session discussing the role of women in technology, Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella let loose a statement that would have passed as shocking even if it hadn’t come from the head of one of the biggest companies in ...
Converged infrastructure is good for customers, but what do systems integrators think? | #OOW14
Converged appliances offer to do away with the colossal hassle of cobbling together different infrastructure components into a cohesive and functioning whole, thereby freeing up a proportionally large chunk of the technology budget for CIOs. The flip side of the equation is that the systems integrators typically contracted to carry out the work are seeing ...
Alteryx snags $60 million to boost its Big Data blender
Another week, another analytics startup raising capital to tackle the fast evolving data requirements of the enterprise. Alteryx Inc. revealed on Tuesday that it has nearly quadrupled its outside financing after closing a $60 million funding round meant to help address the rising demand for its software, which allows organizations to piece together information from ...
Electric Cloud jolts the market with new continuous integration service for mobile developers
To say that there is an overabundance of managed development platforms on the market would be a tremendous understatement, especially as far as the mobile landscape is concerned, but one firm believes that there’s room for one more. Electric Cloud Inc. on Wednesday unveiled Ship.io , a continuous integration (CI) service built with the specific requirements ...
All-flash array maker SolidFire bags $82 million, adds entry-level products
SolidFire Inc., one of the numerous startups that have sprung up in recent years to capitalize on the market’s growing appetite for solid-state memory, has netted another $82 million from investors to help it push back against increasing competition. The company said that the funding will go towards scaling global operations and advancing the development ...
Microsoft joins October CRM frenzy with big price cuts
Microsoft Corp. is following its top rivals into the customer relationship management (CRM) frenzy that has been raging for the last week and a half with the introduction of a new cloud suite designed to help salespeople become more productive. Copying one of its most historically successful tactics in the even-more-cutthroat infrastructure-as-a-service space, the Redmond ...
The Koality appeal: Maximize coding efficiency “because engineers are very expensive”
Docker Inc. is putting its new funding to good use with the acquisition of Koality Inc., a fellow startup that sells software testing tools geared towards enterprise developers with strict security standards to uphold. The deal puts the Linux containerization specialist in a better position to monetize its namesake project, which allows users to package ...
Salesforce.com overhauls core services in a taste of things to come at Dreamforce summit
Taking a page from the VMware Inc. book of earlier-than-expected product reveals, Salesforce.com is rolling out a string of major updates in advance of its Dreamforce ’14 summit next week that provide an early taste of what is shaping up as a historic conference. The cloud juggernaut is also taking the opportunity to reinforce its ...