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SAP Launches $650 Million Startup Fund
The frontier of Big Data innovation, startups have become a key focus for business intelligence giant SAP. The company’s independent investment arm recently launched a $650 million direct investment fund, SAP Ventures Fund II, which will focus on late stage technology companies. Taken together with the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, a recently bolstered fund-of-funds ...
ScaleOut Unveils Real Time In-Memory Analytics Engine
ScaleOut Software has revamped its in-memory data grid platform to deliver a twentyfold increase in MapReduce performance while eliminating some of the costs associated with traditional Hadoop clusters. The newly launched hServer V2 is specifically geared toward ad hoc analysis of operational data. While not designed to compete with offerings from distributors such as Cloudera ...
Numerify Raises $8M for Cloud BI
Long on ambition but short on detail, Numerify has set out to propel traditional business intelligence into the cloud analytics era. Founded by BI veterans from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, MicroStrategy and Hyperion, the stealth startup is developing a solution that integrates data from on- and off-premise information silos to help organizations “rapidly deliver the meaningful ...
Netskope Raises $21M Out of Stealth : Analytics to Tackle Shadow IT
Enterprise users are bypassing the IT department in favor of more accessible cloud services that offer convenient solutions to specific business problems. Known as shadow IT, this growing phenomenon is making it increasingly difficult for large organizations to effectively maintain security and compliance across their geographically dispersed environments. Fresh out of stealth mode with $21 ...
Red Hat Updates RHEL 5 with Expanded Third Party Support
Reiterating its commitment to support Linux distributions for at least 10 years, Red Hat has rolled out a new version of Enterprise Linux 5. First released in 2007, the operating system will receive regular updates through March 31, 2017 and until 2020 with Extended Upgrade Support. The latest RHEL 5.10 release ships with MySQL 5.5 ...
Cisco Partners with PT to Expand Smart Cities Initiative into New Market
IBM and Cisco have a lot in common. Besides dominating their respective markets, the tech juggernauts are also both working to make smart cities a reality across the globe. Just this week, the networking giant entered into a strategic partnership with Portugal Telecom to deliver new Smart+Connected solutions across Europe, Latin America and Africa. As ...
Atlassian Introduces Integrated Help Desk Solution for JIRA
Atlassian is complementing its widely-used issue tracking platform with a help desk tool that aims to “improve operational efficiency, reduce overall time to resolution and increase customer satisfaction.” The newly launched JIRA Service Desk builds on the workflow and tracking capabilities available in JIRA to provide an array of fine-grained management functions, most notably the ...
Cloudera Integrates with Accumulo to Drive Big Data Security
Tom Reilly’s Cloudera is doubling down on Big Data security in a push to make Hadoop more viable for powering mission-critical enterprise workloads. Moving closer toward this goal, the company recently announced that it is adding support for Accumulo, an open source database that offers fine-grained access control to structured and unstructured information. Originally developed ...
HP Dives into Software-Defined Networking with New SDK + App Store
Hewlett Packard is looking to build an application ecosystem around its OpenFlow-enabled switches and virtual SDN controller with a new marketplace for software-defined services. Set to go live in the second half of 2014, the cloud-based HP SDN App Store will enable partners to sell applications through a “secure, private portal” to customer environments. Starting ...
MarkLogic CEO on Oracle and NoSQL at OpenWorld 2013 | #oow13
Gary Bloom, the president and chief executive officer of NoSQL titan MarkLogic, stopped by theCUBE at the recently concluded Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference to discuss how his company is helping enterprises tap into their unstructured data for tangible business value. Founded in 2001, MarkLogic is the largest pure-play Big Data vendor by revenue with a ...