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Last week saw the competitive lines of the analytics ecosystem redrawn once again after Informatica Corp. agreed to leave the stock exchange in a $5.3 million buyout representing the biggest transaction of its kind this year. The landmark deal marks a new …
What you missed in Cloud: Evolutionary change
The competitive focus in the public cloud switched gears from revolutionary to evolutionary advances last week as the big players brought their capabilities up to par with the latest trends. Microsoft Corp. set the wheels in motion after launching a data-driven security …
How containers complete Microsoft’s grand cloud strategy
Six months after revealing plans to bring containers to Windows, Microsoft Corp. is making good on the promise with a homegrown implementation of the lightweight virtualization format that offers a convenient new deployment option for enterprise applications. But the impact of the …
Tintri augments its storage stack for better DevOps
Tintri Inc. is rolling out a major update to the software powering its hybrid storage arrays that introduces new capabilities for fine-tuning operations in large virtual environments. One of the most notable additions is an optional extension that takes advantage of the …
New Oracle cloud services seek retailers’ hearts and minds
Oracle Corp. is rolling out six new services to its burgeoning cloud arsenal that are meant to help large retailers address their evolving operational requirements more effectively. The additions continue the trend of providers increasingly turning to industry-specific functionality for differentiation. That …
Salesforce.com targets B2B lead nurturing with new services
Salesforce.com Inc. is expanding its cloud-based marketing platform with two new services that draw on real-time data about prospects to increase the success of deal-making. The launch promises to help extend the scope of targeting efforts beyond the initial engagement to every …
PLUMgrid ups the ante for OpenStack networking
PLUMgrid Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake software-defined networking overlay that promises to take more of the manual work out of managing traffic in large-scale implementations of OpenStack. The area where the update should make that labor reduction …
Investors chuck $17 million at Palerra for a piece of its cloud security action
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud security startups reached another height this morning after Palerra Inc. snagged $17 million in financing to build out its managed threat detection and response service. The round continues a flurry of recent funding activity in …
Basho targets write-intensive workloads with database update
Basho Technologies Inc. is releasing a new version of its popular key-value store that promises to handle large amounts of unstructured information faster and more reliably than the current version. The update targets the requirements of the global organizations at the forefront …
IIX marks latest $20 million round with second peering acquisition
Peering startup IIX Inc. has raised an additional $20 million in funding less than six months after its previous round to continue scaling global operations. And just like last time, the fresh capital is quickly being put to use with an acquisition …