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The two biggest names in analytics both made their presence felt this week in a last-moment burst of activity before the industry turns its attention to Strata + Hadoop World 2014. Splunk set the tone after pulling the curtains back on a …
EXCLUSIVE video: The woman at the center of Microsoft CEO Nadela’s sexism controversy speaks out on theCUBE
Something rather unexpected happened during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing yesterday. Appearing on a session discussing the role of women in technology, Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella let loose a statement that would have passed as shocking even if …
Converged infrastructure is good for customers, but what do systems integrators think? | #OOW14
Converged appliances offer to do away with the colossal hassle of cobbling together different infrastructure components into a cohesive and functioning whole, thereby freeing up a proportionally large chunk of the technology budget for CIOs. The flip side of the equation is …
Alteryx snags $60 million to boost its Big Data blender
Another week, another analytics startup raising capital to tackle the fast evolving data requirements of the enterprise. Alteryx Inc. revealed on Tuesday that it has nearly quadrupled its outside financing after closing a $60 million funding round meant to help address the …
Electric Cloud jolts the market with new continuous integration service for mobile developers
To say that there is an overabundance of managed development platforms on the market would be a tremendous understatement, especially as far as the mobile landscape is concerned, but one firm believes that there’s room for one more. Electric Cloud Inc. on …
All-flash array maker SolidFire bags $82 million, adds entry-level products
SolidFire Inc., one of the numerous startups that have sprung up in recent years to capitalize on the market’s growing appetite for solid-state memory, has netted another $82 million from investors to help it push back against increasing competition. The company said …
Microsoft joins October CRM frenzy with big price cuts
Microsoft Corp. is following its top rivals into the customer relationship management (CRM) frenzy that has been raging for the last week and a half with the introduction of a new cloud suite designed to help salespeople become more productive. Copying one …
The Koality appeal: Maximize coding efficiency “because engineers are very expensive”
Docker Inc. is putting its new funding to good use with the acquisition of Koality Inc., a fellow startup that sells software testing tools geared towards enterprise developers with strict security standards to uphold. The deal puts the Linux containerization specialist in …
Salesforce.com overhauls core services in a taste of things to come at Dreamforce summit
Taking a page from the VMware Inc. book of earlier-than-expected product reveals, Salesforce.com is rolling out a string of major updates in advance of its Dreamforce ’14 summit next week that provide an early taste of what is shaping up as a …
Infrastructure boss talks operations behind building a $750M financial platform | #OOW14
When a company spends $750 million and a decade to develop a software platform that can make or break its future, it can’t afford to fall into the all-too-common trap of becoming bogged down with the complexity of the underlying infrastructure. In …