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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 …
First Apple/IBM mobile apps illustrate alliance’s enterprise focus
Barely five months after first revealing an alliance to target mobile workers in vertical markets, IBM and Apple are rolling out the first ten of the more than 100 planned applications that the partnership is set to produce. The short time between …
Newly independent Cloud Foundry parts ways with EMC Federation
The industry’s hottest open-source platform-as-a-a-service (PaaS) stack is entering the next stage of its evolution with the inaugurat ion of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is officially taking over responsibility for its namesake project from the EMC federation. The launch marks the latest …
Blue-chip investors pile on to DataGravity’s analytical storage
DataGravity Inc. has raised a healthy $50 million in funding from the venerable Accel Partners and several other venture capital giants to promote its hybrid storage arrays. The series is said to be the first in the industry to include built-in data …
Altiscale nets $30 million for purpose-built Hadoop cloud
With the industry’s eyes fixed on the growing rivalry among the top Hadoop distributors, Altiscale Inc. is quietly encroaching into the emerging market for managed implementations of the notoriously complex data-crunching framework. The startup raised an additional $30 million in funding on …