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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 …
Remember hardware? HP says it still counts | #HPDiscover
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 …