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Scale-out NewSQL Database Earns Clustrix $10M in Funding
Clustrix has raised $10 million in Series D financing from HighBar Partners to expand its customer base and accelerate the development of its flagship product, a scale-out SQL database designed for transactional workloads and real-time analytics. The product is used by dozens of “large-scale production customers around the world,” including AOL and Symantec. The round ...
Weekly Internet of Things Review: From Wifi Trash Cans to Smart Cities
The Internet of Things is growing at an accelerating pace. This week a startup called Renew launched an initiative to transform London’s trash cans into high-tech geolocation trackers, Citrix got the word out about the benefits of BYOD for small businesses, and North Korea unveiled a new smartphone. Vietnam also grabbed headlines after it contracted ...
Weekly Security Review: Funding and Privacy
Cybersecurity was a major focal point this week. Cyvera received funding for its zero-day attack prevention technology, hackers found a way to compromise legitimate apps, and Edward Snowden leaked new details about the NSA’s domestic snooping operation. In related news, Consumer Watchdog released a document in which Google openly admits to violating email users’ privacy. ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Vulnerable Messaging and Scale-Out Storage
This past week featured a good number of cloud developments. Opscode unveiled a new version of its flagship automation platform, security researchers discovered a critical flaw in Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and Hewlett-Packard announced a new scale-out appliance. Mega CEO Vikram Kumar also grabbed headlines after he called on cloud providers to commit “Privacy Seppuku” ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Visualization and National Security
The Big Data space saw a lot of action this week. Tableau held its first earnings call, CloudPhysics raised funding for its data-driven IT operations tool, and Nimbus pulled the curtains back on two new powerful flash systems. In other news, DARPA started studying the risk associated with the democratization of Big Data. In its ...
Court Throws Out Mark Hurd Lawsuit
A U.S. District Judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit over the lewd conduct of former HP CEO and chairman Mark Hurd, who resigned in 2010 after a marketing consultant named Jodie Fisher accused him of sexual harassment. The accusations turned into a full blown scandal when an internal probe found that Hurd submitted inaccurate expense ...
WANdisco Earns Dell’s Seal of Approval
WANdisco, a rising star in the increasingly crowded Big Data space, announced that its newly released Non-Stop NameNode software has been certified for integration and interoperability with Dell PowerEdge servers. Non-Stop NameNode WAN Edition is a networking solution that does away with the single point of failure inherent in Hadoop. It achieves this by turning ...
Looker Nets $16M for Browser-Based Data Modeling
Next generation business intelligence is the name of the game for Looker, a Santa Cruz, CA-based startup that offers a browser-based development environment for data scientists. The platform is built around LookML, a proprietary language that lets analysts recycle queries, manipulate metrics on the fly and extract insights from terabyte-scale databases. Looker announced this week ...
HP Unveils Scale-Out, Software-Defined Storage Appliance
Hewlett Packard is jumping into the software-defined storage fray with a new scale-out StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) that offers data tiering and tight integration with VMware and Microsoft. The beefed-up appliance features auto tiering at the sub-LUN (logical unit number) level, a capability HP brands as Adaptive Optimisation. VSA utilizes this function to automatically ...
The CIO Knows Best, Says Voonami’s Steve Newell
Voonami, a Utah-based provider of colocation, hosting and managed services, has successfully added 20 terabytes to its environment using hybrid storage arrays from Tegile. Steve Newell, a sales engineer with Voonami, discussed his company’s use case during last month’s Wikibon Peer Incite event. Before the upgrade, Voonami’s public cloud offering ran in an environment that ...