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HP Vertica Partner Strategy: Disrupting IT with Big Data and Open Standards
SiliconANGLE’s theCube hosted dozens of business and IT leaders during the recently concluded HP Vertica Big Data Conference. Among the guests were executives from HP Vertica and prominent partners such as Cloudera, which joined forces with the database maker to deliver plug and play solutions for data-driven enterprises. Tom Pinckney, the director of global partner ...
Chartio Brings Plug and Play Data Visualization to Windows
Chartio, an emerging provider of cloud-based data aggregation and visualization software, has added support for Microsoft SQLServer and Azure to its flagship offering. The two solutions join an already lengthy list of supported platforms, among them MySQL, PostgresSQL, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Relational Database Services, Rackspace Cloud, Heroku, Google Analytics and Oracle. Chartio’s service lets ...
SMB Mobilization Drives Double-Digit Productivity Gains
More than 50 percent of small businesses that support BYOD have become more efficient thanks to mobile devices, according to the latest infographic from Citrix GoToMeeting. The company says 21 percent of business owners who let their workers use smartphones and tablets for work reported productivity gains of more than 30 percent. Overall, 19 percent ...
CloudPhysics Accelerates Data-Driven Cloud Management with New Funding
CloudPhysics announced Tuesday morning that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and existing investors. The startup will use the new capital to boost marketing and accelerate the development of its flagship offering, a data-driven operations management tool for virtualized environments that hit general availability this week. ...
FreshBooks Launches Android App
FreshBooks is bringing accounting data to Android with a new application for mobile professionals. The free tool rounds out the company’s existing lineup of cloud services and iOS apps, which serve more than six million users across 120 countries. FreshBooks for Android introduces the ability to create “professional-looking invoices and estimates,” check message statuses to ...
Hortonworks Brings Hadoop to Windows
Microsoft and Hortonworks are bringing Hadoop to a billion users. The Big Data startup announced this week that the latest version of its open source Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) has been made available for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. HDP 1.3 is the first Hadoop distribution to have been certified for use ...
Hybrid Storage is Disrupting the IT Landscape
The Internet of Things is driving demand for cost-effective storage solutions that deliver both capacity and performance, according to Rob Commins, the vice president of Tegile. The executive told us that his company’s hybrid arrays marry the benefits of solid-state and traditional disk to “reduce capacity requirements while driving performance integrity.” Tegile’s value proposition has ...
Appcelerator Succeeds with Vision for Developers in Today’s Mobile Era
Appcelerator, a leading provider of cloud-based mobile development solutions, has been named as a “visionary” by Gartner for the second year in a row. The company secured the highest placement for vision and execution in the recently published Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms. “We believe Appcelerator’s position as the most visionary company by ...
Tegile Doubles Sales, Raises a Massive $35M for Hybrid Storage
Demand for hybrid storage solutions is skyrocketing. Tegile, one of the fastest growing players in this space, revealed that it has improved its sales from doubling every two quarters to doubling every quarter before opening the $35 million Series C funding round it closed today. The round was led by late-stage venture firm Meritech Capital ...
Ed Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Gov’t Probe
Lavabit, a privacy-centric email provider that was dragged into the media spotlight after Edward Snowden used its service to contact journalists, has shut down in an effort to avoid handing user data over to the government. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto discussed the news in a recent interview with NewsDesk host Kristin Feledy. John says ...