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Applications took the center stage in the analytics world this past week, with Splunk Inc. introducing a new add-on for its hugely popular log management platform that extends support beyond just data from infrastructure components to the traffic flowing among the services …
SUSE catching up to Red Hat on OpenStack Icehouse?
SUSE Inc., the long-time second-fiddle of the enterprise Linux world, has finally started shipping the latest Icehouse release of OpenStack with its private cloud platform. The launch comes more than a month after arch-nemesis Red Hat Inc. had completed baking the new …
NEA and co bet $10M on DevOps startup that wants to ship the ultimate cloud app management tool
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is now officially on a cloud investment streak. Last week, the venture capital powerhouse chucked in for a $25 million funding round for global data governance provider Bitglass Inc., and on Thursday, it led a $10 million round into …
Tintri intensifies campaign against storage incumbents
Tintri Inc., one of the faster growing names in the new generation of storage vendors to have emerged from the solid-state memory craze, is extending its reach beyond the customer base of VMware Inc. with a major software upgrade that takes aim …
More validation for hybrid cloud storage as Nasuni bags $10 million
History repeats itself rather often in the world of enterprise storage. Every few years, there appears a wave of startups heralding some exciting new trend that poses a threat to the old guard, and each time, the frontrunners find themselves acquired by …
HTC launches software unit in effort to reverse declining fortunes
It’s been a long fall from the top for HTC Corp., the Taiwanese handset powerhouse that went from providing outsourcing services to becoming the second-highest-earning smartphone vendor behind Apple in the span of a few years. However, with 11 straight quarters of …
IPO on the horizon? Lookout snags $150M for enterprise security pivot
Lookout Inc. has just raised a formidable $150 million in financing from some of the biggest names on Wall Street to extend its reach beyond the consumer space and into the enterprise. The long-coming move signals the beginning of a new phase …
Pentaho and Logi find new ways to connect to HP Vertica
Partners are essential to Hewlett-Packard Co.’s plans to deliver an integrated data processing platform for the enterprise, and a core component of that unified analytics vision is Vertica, the database it obtained as part of the acquisition of its namesake developer back …
Peer 2.0 driving network change through education
Trends at the top of the enterprise stack are changing the balance of power down in the network, driving the emergence of new challenges that will fall on the shoulders of tomorrow’s practitioners and business leaders. To prepare the next generation, a …
IBM ups security, identity stakes with buyout of longtime partner
Between its efforts to change the way data traverses the cloud and its collaboration with DARPA to bend Moore’s law, IBM at times appears to be pushing harder to define tomorrow’s data centers than to improve the ones its customers run today. That’s …