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Invincea, a cyber security vendor that focuses on combating zero-day attacks, has received $16 million in equity from Dell Ventures and Aeries Capital. Existing backers Grotech Ventures, Harbert Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures also participated in the round, which brings in the …
QLogic certifies adapters for software-defined storage
The emerging software-defined storage space hit a new milestone on Tuesday after QLogic announced that it has added support for DataCore’s SANsymphony-V virtualization offering. Pegged as the “first, and only, true storage hypervisor,” the platform aims to streamline operations through improved manageability. …
HP expands HAVEn ecosystem
Hewlett-Packard entered the Big Data platform race in June with HAVEn, an integrated offering that combines Hadoop with technology from Vertica and Autonomy in a unified platform for analytical applications. It features more than 800 connectors for structured, multi-structured, and unstructured data …
0xdata extends Hadoop abstraction layer with Scala support
Abstraction is key to effective enterprise analytics, with most companies unable or unwilling to hire a team of statisticians possessing the necessary know-how to make sense of their massive data troves. An emerging startup called 0xdata is trying to fill this talent …
Datameer raises $19M to keep up with “exploding” demand
Datameer, a provider of data analytics solutions for business users, announces this morning that it has bagged $19 million in a Series D financing round led by Next World Capital, an expansion-stage VC that that also backs Cassandra distributor DataStax and hybrid …
IBM wins cloud security patent 1 day after getting hit by privacy lawsuit
In an ironic twist of fate, IBM announced that it has patented a new technique for detecting and blocking malicious code a day after being slammed with a lawsuit over its ties to the NSA’s espionage operations, which involve – among other …
AWS and hyperspecialization: the more the better
Infrastructure is the secret to Amazon’s cloud dominance, so naturally the company has kept quiet about it. But last month at re:Invent 2013, vice president James Hamilton, an early advocate of commodity hardware who helped architect Microsoft’s data centers, opened up about …
Amazon chooses Cloudera for stream analytics
Amazon has added support for Cloudera’s open source Impala project to its cloud-based Hadoop distro as part of a push to help customers gain faster insight into their growing troves of unstructured information. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) had previously only worked with …
HP and Broadcom innovate with open standards | #HPDiscover
Jerome Riboloun of HP and Greg Scherer, the vice president of server and storage strategy at Broadcom, hopped into theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit to discuss SDN with Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante. Hewlett-Packard recently upgraded its server lineup with Intel’s latest …
HP helps ExactTarget run faster with flash | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard’s Vish Mulchand and Pete Robinson, a storage manager at ExactTarget, dropped by theCUBE at HP Discover to share how the Salesforce subsidiary is leveraging the 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array to provide better quality of service for its end-users. The Indiana-based …