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Trufa, the newest player on the Big Data scene, announced this week that it has received $4.5 million in Series C funding from prominent venture capital firm Accel Partners. Enterprise software veterans Paul Wahl and Alex Ott are joining the company’s board. …
Dell refreshes converged management platform
Hardware juggernaut Dell is upping the ante on data center management with a new release of Active Systems Manager. The update marks the latest milestone in the company’s effort to cement its foothold in the converged infrastructure space, a fast growing market …
HP embraces freemium model amidst global streamlining effort
As CEO Meg Whitman closes in on enterprise services, Hewlett-Packard is venturing beyond familiar ground in pursuit of new revenue opportunities. On Tuesday the company pulled the curtains back on Propel, a new freemium cloud offering designed to make IT resources more …
Mirantis and IBM team for OpenStack testing
OpenStack is a tough sell in the enterprise. Despite strong industry support, the platform is still immature and suffers from a lack of transparency about how it differentiates itself from VMware vCloud and Amazon Web Services. Mirantis and IBM are hoping to …
DataSift nets $42M for social analytics
DataSift announced on Tuesday that it has raised $42 million in Series C financing to expand into new markets and accelerate the development of its flagship platform, a social media analytics solution used by more than 1,000 companies in 40 countries. DataSift‘s …
Zenoss expands into Microsoft ecosystem with new ZenPacks
Unified monitoring provider Zenoss is extending its flagship Service Dynamics suite with two new plug-ins for Windows Server and Azure environments. In a release, Zenoss cited Bloomberg projections that Azure deployments will surpass $1 billion in sales this year thanks to a …
Apple buys Topsy to tap Twitter’s firehose
Apple has officially jumped on the Big Data bandwagon with the acquisition of Topsy Labs, a social media analytics startup headquartered in San Francisco. The consumer electronics giant confirmed the buy after insiders leaked the news to the Wall Street Journal, but …
Zooming in on GCE: Google gets serious about the public cloud
Google has joined Microsoft and Rackspace on the quest to erode Amazon’s cloud dominance with the launch of its long anticipated platform-as-a-service solution. Originally announced at the company’s sixth annual I/O conference in June 2012, Google Compute Engine features competitive pricing, new …
Accenture bolsters Industrial Internet capabilities with European acquisition
Accenture has picked up evopro group’s manufacturing solutions business to fortify its presence in the emerging Industrial Internet, where intelligent machines meet Big Data to drive operational efficiencies. No financial details were disclosed. Founded in 2001, evopro group provides embedded software and …
Pure Storage, EMC duke it out in court
Less than a month after being hit by a lawsuit from EMC for allegedly colluding with former employees to steal inside information, Pure Storage is firing back at the storage giant with a complaint of its own. The Mountain View, Calif.-based provider …