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Oracle sued Google in 2010 for supposedly misusing its Java interfaces to create Android, an allegation that would be dismissed two years later by a California court. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that software APIs are not copyrightable, saving Google’s mobile …
Stealth startup Nurego gets star-studded support, $2M in funding
The Silicon Valley startup scene has been buzzing with activity these past few days, and now it’s Seattle’s turn to make some headlines. A local team of industry veterans just netted $2 million in funding to help cloud companies make sense of …
Spinoff startup Trufa raises $4.5M for real-time analytics
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 …