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What you missed in Big Data: smaller means nimbler
The startup ecosystem continued to set the pace for the analytics industry last week with another series of major milestones that spell new competition for the incumbents reigning over the market today. GlassBeam Inc. fired the opening shot with the closing of $2.2 million in Series B funding from VKRM Group and new investor SRI ...
For Docker CEO Golub, it’s about being everywhere (even Windows) | #vmworld
Few enterprise software startups are growing as fast as Docker Inc., and probably none have managed to garner so much buzz in such a short time, certainly not anytime since the dot-com era. There’s a good reason for that, according to Docker CEO Ben Golub (right). Speaking on theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld conference ...
Basho boss says workloads must drive infrastructure decisions | #vmworld
For the first time in recent memory, a major industry conference didn’t place Big Data at the center of attention, and the CEO of one of the hottest startups in that space says that’s a good thing. In his debut appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld 2014 summit, Basho Technologies Inc. head ...
Tegile says hybrid array erases price/performance tradeoff | #vmworld
In industry marketing circles, the term “hybrid array” is typically used to describe a data storage appliance that combines fast and expensive solid-state-memory with cheaper but slower mechanical disk. Tegile Systems Inc., which one of the faster-growing names in the ring, is venturing off the beaten track with a fresh product approach that it says ...
Amazon’s enterprise cloud locker comes online
Amazon.com Inc. officially entered the enterprise file syncronization race on Wednesday with the launch of Zocalo, the homegrown cloud locker it unveiled in July as a response to fast-growing corporate adoption of existing solutions such rival Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive. Named after the Spanish word for town square, the platform is exiting its nearly two-month private ...
SAP presses deeper into China with new cloud data center
Business intelligence stalwart SAP SE is pushing deeper into the lucrative Chinese market for enterprise software with a new data center that will deliver cloud services to local firms. The Shanghai facility marks one of the first major milestones on the growth path of China Datacom Corp., the joint venture that the German software titan ...
Splunk rival gains ground with fresh funding
There’s a new kid in machine data town, and it just closed another funding round to go after the biggest name on the block. The Santa Clara, CA-based GlassBeam Inc. said this week that the latest $2 million raised from early-stage investment firm VKRM Group and new backer SRI Capital will be used to accelerate ...
Cisco teams with SimpliVity as pile-on continues in red-hot hyper-convergence market
VMware Inc.’s newly confirmed foray into the burgeoning hyper-convergence space positions it to tap one of the fastest-growing segments of the data center market, but the move has not come without a price. The long-coming introduction of EVO:Rail at VMworld yesterday was met with the revelation that the virtualization top networking partner has allied with ...
VMware partners blitz VMworld 2014 with barrage of announcements
Once VMware Inc. finished unloading the major updates and new products it had saved for its annual customer conference this week, other companies took over with a steady stream of product reveals that persisted well into the latter part of VMworld 2014. Flash array maker SolidFire Inc. kicked off the second day of the summit ...
Report says NSA built Google clone to share private data
While companies like Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit struggle to sell CIOs on the virtues of using a single platform to search all of their data silos, a new report suggests the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is already exploiting the technology to its fullest, much to the dismay of privacy advocates everywhere. Documents handed over ...