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Intel buys into wearable tech with Basis Science acquisition
Intel hopes to make up for its late entry into mobile by gaining an early start on what it perceives as the next big wave in consumer technology: wearable gadgets. With PC sales continuing to decline at a steady pace and ARM showing no signs of loosening its grip on the smartphone and tablet universe, ...
The product news to watch for : #AWSsummit SF
The product floodgates have officially opened at today’s AWS Summit in San Francisco. Amazon kicked things off with the launch of a new peering option for its free Virtual Public Cloud capability, which allows users to carve out a chunk of the shared EC2 environment into a private network that provides increased control and security. ...
In latest milestone for software-defined storage, Amplidata nets $11M from investors
Belgian object storage startup Amplidata has nabbed another $11 million in funding to expand sales and marketing operations and accelerate the development of its flagship AmpliStor solution. Like many of the newer products on the market, the appliance is built from commodity hardware and delivers differentiation up in the software layer, in this case with ...
Tableau rides Big Data wave with secondary offering
Unlike some of the other buzzed-about technology companies that went public in recent years, Tableau has managed to sustain its growth streak on the back of accelerating demand for self-service analytics among everyday business users. And investors have taken note. The data visualization firm saw its share price nearly double since its stock exchange debut ...
EMC promotes three insiders to key positions
Storage industry giant EMC has promoted three insiders to senior posts in its core Information Infrastructure business this week, two months after tapping chief operating office and theCUBE alumnus David Goulden to head the division. As part of the shuffle, chief marketing officer Jeremy Burton has been named president of products and marketing. His responsibilities ...
Hortonworks joins the Hadoop IPO race with $100M funding round
The Hadoop ecosystem is going through the same stages of explosive maturation as the social networking space had before it, with the top players now gearing up for public offerings to fuel their growth ambitions. Cloudera fired the opening shot last week with the closing of a $160 million round that bumped up its valuation ...
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 ...