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The growing focus on automation is shifting the industry’s attention away from infrastructure to the increasingly sophisticated software running on top, but the underlying building blocks remain as important as ever, according to Hewlett-Packard Co. converged systems boss Brent Allen. The executive …
Workiva, maker of reporting software for public companies, goes public
Workiva Inc. became a model customer for its own products on Friday after it went public on the New York Stock Exchange in an offering that put 7,200,000 shares up for grabs at a price of $14, the midpoint of the $13 to $15 …
What you missed in Cloud: VCs pile on the bandwagon
Last week was a good one for cloud startups as investors flocked to the new crop of contenders hoping to make their mark on the industry amid the intensifying struggle for dominance. Mesosphere Inc. charged ahead on Monday with a $36 million …
What you missed in Big Data: Hortonworks IPO stokes Hadoop fans
The analytics market passed a historic milestone last week when Hortonworks Inc. became the first Hadoop distributor to go public, beating rivals Cloudera Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc. to the punch. But all three companies can take heart in the first-day performance …
Cisco campaigns to push analytics to the edge of the network
The industry shift away from proprietary switches and routers is pushing backbone connectivity kingpin Cisco further beyond the data center to the edge of the network, where it’s now taking aim at the $7.3 trillion opportunity to provide analytics for the Internet …
Hortonworks rockets past $1 billion valuation on first day of trading
Hortonworks Inc. raised the price of its initial public offering to $16 per share on Thursday from the original target range of $12 to $14 set earlier this month, but Wall Street still liked what it saw, kicking up Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP) shares …
HP focuses software-defined data center strategy on user choice | #HPdiscover
The software-defined data center is usually thought of in terms of its components, but Hewlett-Packard Co. is focusing on the big picture, according to the head of worldwide marketing for its key converged infrastructure business. Paul Miller returned to SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at …
Investors fuel DigitalOcean’s rocket with $50M loan guarantee
DigitalOcean Inc. has secured $50 million in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group LLC, a prominent New York hedge fund with north of $60 billion under management, to expand its wildly popular public cloud into new markets. The investment tops months of …
Grow wants to unify sprawling cloud data sources
A new startup called Grow Inc. hit the industry radar on Tuesday after raising $1.5 million in funding to launch a platform that attempts to unify data from different corners of the cloud into a complete view of operations for small- and medium-sized …
Alibaba dodges bullet as researchers flag security flaw in its commerce engine
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has patched a major vulnerability in one of its e-commerce portals that exposed tens of millions of users to possible account theft or worse. Almost as alarming as the magnitude of the threat, which was successfully averted, is …