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Actifio lands a cool $100M for data virtualization
Actifio announced on Monday that it has closed an oversubscribed $100 million financing round led by Tiger Global Management, a well-established private equity and venture capital firm notable for its investments in Zynga and Pure Storage. Existing backers Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, North Bridge, Advanced Technology Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated, bringing the startup’s ...
Plenty of room for growth in cloud locker space
The explosion of connected devices is fueling exponential growth in global data traffic, with the volume of information crossing the Internet every second already exceeding the total amount stored online 20 years ago, according to a recent infographic by Computer Science Degree Hub. This unprecedented increase poses both a challenge and an opportunity for IT ...
Dell jumpstarts advanced analytics strategy with StatSoft buy
Dell has had its foot in the door of the Big market for a few years now. The hardware maker became one of the first major enterprise vendors to partner with Cloudera in August 2011, and reiterated its analytics focus with the subsequent $2.4 billion purchase of Quest Software in November 2012. Included in the ...
What you missed in Big Data : VCs flock to Hadoop while cloud analytics gain traction
It was been a big week for Big Data, with Cloudera raising another $160 million in financing to fuel its aggressive growth strategy. The round was led by T. Rowe Price, which has proven track record in identifying firms with multi-billion dollar IPO potential, and three other undisclosed “top-tier public market investor”. Google Ventures and an ...
What the perfect storm of cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things means for enterprise asset management | #IBMpulse
The wave of new technology that is sweeping through the IT industry is already making a difference for many organizations, but in the trenches, the disruption happening upstream does not overshadow the fundamental need to keep business operations running smoothly. Facilities and equipment lifecycle governance is a big part of that, and the larger the ...
Taking a page from IBM’s book, Cisco commits $1BN+ to growing cloud footprint
Cisco will spend more than $1 billion over the next two years to expand the scope of its public cloud services and bring the individual offerings together in a unified portfolio, the company revealed today. This is the latest in a series of massive investments by incumbent vendors to take the fight to Amazon, which ...
HP unleashes new entry-level storage systems to spur channel growth
Hewlett-Packard is kicking off its annual Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas with the usual bevy of product announcements, this time placing the emphasis on the solidly growing, entry-level storage market. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often rely on local resellers to recommend, deploy and manage hardware—which means plenty of business for HP’s partners. The ...
How cloud + social fit IBM’s mid-market strategy | #IBMpulse
Although enterprise computing dominated the conversation at IBM Pulse last month, companies with fewer than 1,000 employees still constitute the fastest growing segment of the technology stalwart’s customer base, and it has not lost sight of that fact. That is reflected clearly in the messaging around SoftLayer, the managed hosting provider that Big Blue acquired ...
Weekly Cloud review: From providers to services
For service providers, the data center is the key battleground in the cloud revolution, and Midokura is supplying the arms. The San Francisco-based startup offers a solution called MidoNet that wraps an API around networking infrastructure to improve scalability and allow for more consistent management in the kind of large-scale virtual environments operated by cloud ...
OpenDaylight: 95 percent of practitioners want open SDN
The consortium behind the OpenDaylight Project contends that maintaining the open source nature of software-defined networking (SDN) is imperative for the future of the movement. The overwhelming majority of practitioners seem to agree, according to a survey commissioned by the coalition. The OpenDaylight Project includes top vendors such as Cisco and Broadcom, and has found ...