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Cloudera has acquired an emerging startup called Xplain.io Inc. to help organizations run their analytic clusters more efficiently. The deal could provide it with needed differentiation amid increased competition from rival Hadoop distributors that are making substantial gains on other fronts. Former Oracle …
It’s the thing to do: EMC builds app store into VMware-powered converged appliance
App stores and data center equipment apparently go well together, or at least that’s what some vendors seem to believe. Hewlett-Packard offers an application catalog for its software-denied networking platform and now EMC is jumping on the bandwagon with a new converged …
Continuous integration buzz continues: Investors pour $15 million into Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs Inc. reappeared on the industry radar this morning after raising $15 million to capitalize on the accelerating adoption of continuous integration principles in the traditional enterprise. The investment will help fuel the development of its flagship testing service, which provides …
Qumulo bags $40M as clues emerge about mystery storage platform
Qumulo Inc. has landed an additional $40 million in funding from investors to help organizations store their fast-growing data troves more effectively. The stealthy startup is staying deliberately opaque about how it intends to improve the storage equation, but there are a …
MongoDB 3.0 takes aim at the enterprise
MongoDB Inc. is rolling out a new release of its namesake document database aimed at addressing some of the enterprise requirements that have so far gone overlooked in the rush to move away from traditional relational systems. The version is the first …
VMware reboots its virtualization stack for the hybrid cloud
Not wanting to keep the industry waiting until its annual user conference in August, VMware held an offbeat webcast on Monday afternoon to introduce the next generation of its cloud technologies. The main highlight of the launch is a new release of …
Hortonworks takes Hadoop governance into its own hands with new community initiative
Hortonworks Inc. is launching a new community initiative aimed at tightening the control around the growing amounts of information that organizations are feeding into their Hadoop clusters. The initiative builds on the newly public vendor’s existing efforts to provide much-needed governance capabilities for …
Sales automation vendor Apttus lands $41M investment from Salesforce Ventures
The process of converting leads into paying customers takes up much of the modern marketer’s time and effort, but the work hardly ends there. Sorting out the logistical details of closing a deal can prove almost as taxing when large numbers are …
Earnings shed new light on competitive lines in the public cloud
The latest round of earnings reports in the public cloud reveals that the balance of power remains largely unchanged among the top providers, but the competitive lines are being redrawn as the emphasis continues to shift beyond infrastructure. That’s better for some …
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop no longer the only game in town
Microsoft managed to momentarily steal the analytics limelight from Hadoop last week after a new report revealed that it’s planning to launch a cloud-based alternative to the batch processing platform using technology that’s been used internally for several years with great success. …