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After three days of sifting through product announcements and interviewing the tech industry’s top thought leaders, SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon Principal Analyst Jeff Kelly got back into theCUBE to wrap up re:Invent 2013 and provide their unique insight into how …
Apprenda nabs $16 million to accelerate private PaaS
Apprenda announced on Wednesday that it has received $16 million in a series C financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics. Existing investors Ignition Partners and New Enterprise Associates also participated, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to $31 million. Founded in 2007, …
Cisco diversifies as CEO reassures investors of comeback
A day after Cisco chief exec John Chambers promised shareholders that his firm will overcome slow sales by pursuing new markets, the networking vendor pulled the curtains back on a set of new solutions for reducing data center energy costs. Cisco claims …
MapR gears up for IPO with latest executive hire
It appears that MapR is laying down the groundwork for an initial public offering. The San Jose, Calif-based Hadoop distributor named Dan Alter as its first chief financial officer on Wednesday, signaling that it wants in on the Big Data gold rush …
DDN whips out “extreme” storage appliances
DataDirect Networks is pushing ahead of the competition with two new high-performance storage systems that it pegs as the industry’s fastest Big Data appliances. The product family deliver “extreme performance” to help customers consolidate their IT infrastructure and keep up with the …
HP and Salesforce team for dedicated SaaS
Hewlett-Packard and Salesforce are going after the enterprise in a joint push to make cloud services operationally viable for mission-critical workloads that require high level security and transparency. The pair are rolling out a solution called Salesforce Superpod, a dedicated instance in …
SimpliVity raises a massive $58M for hyperconverged infrastructure
Just over a year after closing its second funding round, SimpliVity has raised another $58 million in Series C financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DFJ Growth. New investors Meritech Capital Partners and Swisscom Ventures also participated in the round, …
VMware virtualization exec hops over to OpenDaylight
Software-defined networking is picking up considerable steam as open source technologies take hold in the enterprise, but fragmentation is proving to be a stumbling block for vendors seeking to catch up on the market. Not to be left in the dust, the …
IBM teams with NVIDIA to bring enterprise data centers up to par with supercomputers
IBM and chipmaker NVIDIA have joined forces to push the data center envelope with “supercharged” servers that feature the secret sauce behind how Watson processes information faster than any human. The pair plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs with the chips powering …
IBM doubles down security with Fiberlink acquisition, aggressive academic partnering
IBM is continuing its acquisition streak with the purchase of Fiberlink Communications, a Philadelphia-based software company that develops mobile device management and security solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Fiberlink is best known for its MaaS360 platform, a cloud-based service that is …