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Not to be outdone by Microsoft, Dell has unveiled a new line of Venue Tablets that offer greater flexibility at a lower price point than the Surface Pro 2. The crown jewel of the product family is the Dell Venue 11 Pro, …
Bottlenose Launches Nerve Center to Help Enterprises Reveal Unknown Unknowns
Analytics startup Bottlenose is taking trend intelligence to the next level with a new application for finding patterns in real time data. Dubbed Nerve Center, the tool is built atop Trendfluence, a social discovery platform that the company has been working to …
Analytics Startup Guavus Names Former NetApp EVP as CEO
After more than a month of speculation, Guavus revealed that it has snagged Manish Goel as CEO. Formerly the executive vice president of product operations at NetApp, Goel resigned in September to take the helm of a “privately held data analytics company …
Weekly Big Data Review: From AWS to Mainframes
It’s been a big week for NoSQL. MongoDB, the company behind the hugely popular document-oriented database of the same name, raised $150 million from Intel Capital, Salesforce.com and other bigname investors. The round not only brings the company’s total funding to $231 …
Weekly Cloud Review: Funding and DaaS
Netskope exited stealth mode this week with $21 million in fresh capital and a radically new approach to taming the growing phenomenon of shadow IT. The ambitious startup offers a subscription-based analytics service that aims to provide enterprises with the insights they …
Weekly Security Review: Adobe Hacked, Silk Road Sacked
It’s been an eventful week in the cybersecurity space, especially for Adobe and its customers. In one of the largest and most sophisticated cyber attacks in recent memory, hackers compromised the software maker’s corporate network and got away with the personal information …
IBM Lands Cloud Infrastructure Deal with Top European Hosting Provider
IBM announced on Thursday that it has beat out Dell for a lucrative infrastructure deal with Avalon, a leading hosting provider that manages more than 16,000 websites across Europe. Established in 1997, the Croatian firm offers monitoring, online collaboration, email and other …
MongoDB Raises $150M, Now the Most Funded Big Data Startup
Riding the Big Data tidal wave, MongoDB has raised $150 million in financing to accelerate its global expansion. The round was led by an unnamed financial services company and attracted industry heavy hitters such as Salesforce and Intel. Altimeter Capital, T. Rowe …
With Eyes Set on Mobile, Pivotal Picks Up Xtreme Labs
Pivotal, the open cloud venture that spun off EMC and VMware last year, has made its first acquisition this week in a milestone move to enter the mobile scene. The firm announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to buy …
NaviSite Revamps DaaS Offering
NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-grade cloud hosting and application management services, has enhanced its desktop-as-a-service offering to accommodate businesses that don’t have the budget for a dedicated environment. With the addition of remote desktop services and a remote application delivery tool, the …