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FarmLogs Inc. has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to expand its cloud-based analytics service aimed at everyday ranchers. The startup is one of the newest in the crop of new players to take on the mission of bringing …
PanTerra released analytics tools for internal communications
While a lot of recent new product activity has been focused on deriving meaning from public conversations in social media, PanTerra Networks Inc. is turning the lens back on internal communications with a new platform that the company says provide a complete view …
Network stalwart Riverbed goes private in $3.6 billion buyout
Venerable buyout shop Thoma Bravo LLC and Teachers’ Private Capital, the investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. are taking Riverbed Technology Inc. off the stock market in a landmark $3.6 billion deal that will provide shareholders with a long-sought-after exit. The …
Western Digital’s HGST furthers enterprise ambitions with purchase of all-flash array maker Skyera
HGST, the enterprise business of disk drive kingpin Western Digital Corp., officially jumped into the burgeoning flash array scene on Monday with the acquisition of a low-key startup dubbed Skyera Inc. that specializes in building ultra-dense storage appliances leveraging solid-state memory. The move …
Teradata acquires RainStor to super-charge Hadoop archiving
Teradata Corp. is adding archiving to its burgeoning Hadoop arsenal with the purchase of RainStor Inc., a long-time partner that specializes in helping organizations squeeze as much information as possible into their storage space. It’s the fourth acquisition for the data warehousing …
OneLogin nets $25M to build identity management for the cloud era
OneLogin Inc. caught the wave of investor interest in cloud security startups on Tuesday, securing a $25 million financing round from Scale Venture Partners and existing backers to better address the rising demand for managed identify management services. The four-year-old startup is …
Harmon.ie aims to bring order to cloud message chaos
Harmon.ie Inc. today became the latest player to address cloud sprawl with a new service that promises to consolidate off-premise data sources into a unified view of the user’s workflow. The launch extends the startup’s strategic focus beyond Microsoft’s and IBM’s collaboration …
Microsoft unleashes biggest-ever upgrade for Azure
A month after infrastructure-as-a-service kingpin Amazon stole the industry limelight with the addition of native container support and on-demand event processing to its cloud service, Microsoft has responded with the largest upgrade to its Azure cloud platform since launch. The enhancements target …
UNIFi thinks users should extract their own data; backers agree to tune of $4.45M
UNIFi Software Inc. has picked up $4.45 million in seed financing in its quest to flip the data analytics model on its head by making users responsible for handling their own data extraction tasks, thereby speeding time-to-decision. UNIFi is addressing the delays …
Palantir secures first $60M chunk of projected $400M round as market asks, “Who?”
A Big Data analytics company few people have even heard of is on track to close a massive $400 million funding round that could bring its total amount raised to well over $1 billion. In fact, at an estimated $9 billion, Palantir …