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Best of theCUBE: Max Schireson’s MongoDB journey
In the span of just a few years, MongoDB Inc. has grown from just another startup riding the unstructured data wave into a lynchpin of the NoSQL movement that is sweeping over the enterprise. SiliconANGLE has escorted the company through much of its journey, bringing our readers and viewers the inside track straight from the ...
Cost remains key driver in SDN adoption, but automation can help
There are many factors contributing to the adoption behavior surrounding software-defined networking, from mobile devices in the workplace to virtualization trends. But cost remains the primary consideration for most organizations, and automation can keep IT departments on budget, according to Paul Unbehagen, co-author of the Shortest Path Bridging protocol for optimizing data center traffic and ...
Weekly Cloud review: blurring the lines between public and private
Keeping up with the nuances between private and public systems is becoming increasingly difficult for large organizations as their environments grow more and more heterogeneous, a challenge that is leading some vendors to blur the lines in a bid to take some of the complexity out of the cloud equation. This past week has seen ...
What you missed in Big Data: visualizing knowledge
No matter how sophisticated the analytics engine running under the hood, data is ultimately only as useful as the business user makes it. That’s the guiding philosophy of Adatao Inc., an emerging startup focusing on the human aspect of the information processing lifecycle. The startup surfaced on the industry’s radar this week after raising $13 ...
MongoDB CEO Schireson hands over the reins to outsider entrepreneur Ittycheria
Max Schireson, who spearheaded the rapid growth of MongoDB Inc. over the past 18 months, is ending his successful streak at the helm of the database startup and handing over reins to Dev Ittycheria, an outsider who Schireson said brings all the right credentials to the table. MongoDB’s incoming president and chief executive is joining ...
Druva nets another $25M for cloud storage and data governance platform
Druva, Inc., a startup that promises to provide large organizations with the benefits of public cloud storage without the compromises of consumer-oriented file lockers, has received another $25 million in financing from its big-name investors to hammer home the message of painless, off-premise data management. The round, which is its fourth, was led by Silicon ...
Sprint taps Brightstar founder to take the helm as T-Mobile merger falls through
They may garner plenty of headlines, but BlackBerry Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. aren’t the only tech titans trying to recover some of their former glory. Sprint Corp. is also moving aggressively to reverse its declining revenues, and as we’ve recently learned, it will be going at it entirely alone – under new leadership, at that. ...
Mimosa promises to bring Google Fiber speeds to Wi-Fi networks
While traditional Internet providers are still scrambling to come up with a response to Google Fiber, a startup called Mimosa Networks Inc. is leapfrogging ahead with new low-cost backhaul hardware and a suite of complementary cloud services for delivering gigabit-speed wireless connections. The launch takes aim at the growing bandwidth challenge of the fast-expanding connected ...
Bitglass nabs another $25 billion for public cloud firewall
With the workplace now extending beyond the four corners of the office into the public cloud and the mobile universe, the traditional perimeter-centric approach to securing corporate data has become all but obsolete. Yet while much of the vendor ecosystem is still scrambling to catch up with the new reality of the connected workforce, one ...
Honey, I shrunk BlackBerry: CEO signals growth stage of bold restructure plan
After three years marked by wave after wave of aggressive cutbacks, employees at BlackBerry Ltd. can finally catch a breather, according to an internal memo from CEO John Chen that fell into the hands of the press on Tuesday. The news hold broad reaching implications for the struggling phone maker that extend far beyond just ...