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Apigee Inc. is making a detour to the connected universe on its way to the stock exchange with the launch of a new service called LINK that promises to help hook up emerging categories of devices to the digital grid. The task …
Ponemon security survey finds threat intelligence is woefully underused
Knowing the enemy has always been important to winning battles, but gaining the right insight at the right time is much easier said than done in the fight against hackers. A new survey of the organizations on the front lines conducted by the …
What you missed in Cloud: Developers, developers, developers
The cloud spotlight returned to the development community last week as the major providers expanded their coding arsenals. Pivotal Software Inc. fired the opening round with the introduction of a landmark update to its middleware stack aimed at simplifying the creation of …
SDN evolution: Networking bigwigs unite to move routing up the stack
The networking industry is banding together once again to create an open-source routing framework envisioned as the linchpin for the software-defined environments of tomorrow. The initiative completes the last missing piece of an effort to standardize the paradigm that started two years …
ProsperWorks lands $7.5 million to inject its CRM magic into Google Apps
The market for customer relationship management (CRM) in the cloud got a little more interesting today as ProsperWorks Inc. announced that it has raised $7.5 million to boost its CRM technology that integrates tightly with Google’s suite of productivity apps. ProsperWorks seeks …
What you missed in Big Data: Tapping the connected universe
The analytics discussion shifted from the data coming off connected devices to the data stored inside those devices last week after Realm Inc. raised $20 million in a second round of funding for its embedded object store. The landmark investment tops off …
Survey says Hadoop isn’t replacing data warehouses
There is a reason why Hadoop has become the center of the analytics discussion. The framework can process more kinds of information and faster than traditional data warehouses at a fraction of the cost, yet a new study reveals that organizations are …
Here’s how Canonical plans to become a force in network virtualization
Canonical Ltd. is moving into network virtualization through a broad alliance with Ericsson aimed at extending the reach of its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The move is the latest milestone in a multi-pronged strategic expansion that has ramped up considerably over recent …
NoSQL pioneer’s startup takes aim at scalable software-defined storage
There is no shortage of platforms promising to help organizations address the rapid growth in data volumes more efficiently, but Hedvig Inc. believes that it has a better idea. The startup roared out of stealth this week to try to carve out …
ProtectWise exits stealth to throw more data at the network security problem
After nearly two years of work, ProtectWise Inc. is finally moving into the public light with a new cloud-based service that promises to address one of the greatest operational challenges for the modern enterprise: Understanding the corporate network. Organizations have no shortage …