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NEA and co bet $10M on DevOps startup that wants to ship the ultimate cloud app management tool
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is now officially on a cloud investment streak. Last week, the venture capital powerhouse chucked in for a $25 million funding round for global data governance provider Bitglass Inc., and on Thursday, it led a $10 million round into another ambitious startup called Luminal Inc. that hopes to redefine how cloud applications ...
Tintri intensifies campaign against storage incumbents
Tintri Inc., one of the faster growing names in the new generation of storage vendors to have emerged from the solid-state memory craze, is extending its reach beyond the customer base of VMware Inc. with a major software upgrade that takes aim at the enterprise capabilities helping to keep the incumbents in place. Led by ...
More validation for hybrid cloud storage as Nasuni bags $10 million
History repeats itself rather often in the world of enterprise storage. Every few years, there appears a wave of startups heralding some exciting new trend that poses a threat to the old guard, and each time, the frontrunners find themselves acquired by the incumbent vendors they were planning to disrupt. The cycle has preserved the ...
HTC launches software unit in effort to reverse declining fortunes
It’s been a long fall from the top for HTC Corp., the Taiwanese handset powerhouse that went from providing outsourcing services to becoming the second-highest-earning smartphone vendor behind Apple in the span of a few years. However, with 11 straight quarters of revenue declines since its 2011 peak, the company is trading at a small ...
IPO on the horizon? Lookout snags $150M for enterprise security pivot
Lookout Inc. has just raised a formidable $150 million in financing from some of the biggest names on Wall Street to extend its reach beyond the consumer space and into the enterprise. The long-coming move signals the beginning of a new phase for the mobile security powerhouse, one that may very well conclude in a ...
Pentaho and Logi find new ways to connect to HP Vertica
Partners are essential to Hewlett-Packard Co.’s plans to deliver an integrated data processing platform for the enterprise, and a core component of that unified analytics vision is Vertica, the database it obtained as part of the acquisition of its namesake developer back in 2011. HP has brought the two elements together at its second annual ...
Peer 2.0 driving network change through education
Trends at the top of the enterprise stack are changing the balance of power down in the network, driving the emergence of new challenges that will fall on the shoulders of tomorrow’s practitioners and business leaders. To prepare the next generation, a group of industry pioneers have banded together to create the Peer 2.0 Foundation, ...
IBM ups security, identity stakes with buyout of longtime partner
Between its efforts to change the way data traverses the cloud and its collaboration with DARPA to bend Moore’s law, IBM at times appears to be pushing harder to define tomorrow’s data centers than to improve the ones its customers run today. That’s why its latest acquisition sends a reassuring message. Big Blue revealed this morning ...
Where HP Vertica fits in the Big Data continuum
About 60 percent of organizations are in the process of shifting resources from their existing data management investments to Hadoop, according to research from Wikibon.org, while 30 percent intend to begin on the journey by the end of the year. For Chris Selland, a former longtime analyst and current vice president of marketing and business ...
GE’s nine-digit investment in Pivotal bears fruit with new industrial data lake
General Electric Corp. declared on Monday that it has reached a significant milestone in its goal of bringing industrial equipment into the connected universe with the creation of an internal data lake that pools multiple types of information from different sources in order to simplify processing. According to the company, the centralized approach reduces the ...