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Red Hat Shells Out $100M for Cloud Management Partner ManageIQ
Red Hat has signed a definitive agreement to buy out ManageIQ, a software firm that specializes in making solutions for managing virtualized environments. The open-source giant agreed to pay $104.0 million in cash for the Mahwah, New Jersey-based company, which has held the status of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Certified Partner for nearly a year ...
This Week in Big Data: SAP, IBM and Data Freebies
This week SAP and IBM both announced major milestones in their analytics strategies, while two decided to be charitable and give back the community. On Wednesday SAP introduced a new version of its Sybase Afaria device management software. The upgraded introduces improved end-point control, features smoother directory integration and includes a new API that gives ...
FundersClub Raises $1.3M for Itself, Four Others
FundersClub’s VC crowdsourcing platform has finally realized a return with the closure of five different investments that add up to a total of $1.3 million in funding. FundersClub is a 5-month old startup that aims to become the Kickstarter of Silicon Valley. It pegs its service as an online marketplace that gives other startups the ...
Google Sells Off Motorola Home, Takes Liability for TiVo Lawsuit
Motorola Home, the mobile broadband division of the mobile device maker, was sold off to Arris yesterday for over two billion dollars in cash and stock. The buy is a big win for the Suwanee, Georgia-based company, which specializes in designing solutions for cable companies – but there is a catch. As it turns out, ...
A Year of Boardroom Shuffles for Twitter. Beefing Up for an IPO?
Twitter appointed Mike Gupta as its new chief financial officer this week, replacing former CFO and newly promoted COO Ali Rowghani. The changes were announced via a tweet from chief executive Dick Costolo, who himself served as the company’s chief operating officer in its earlier stages. AllThingsD provided some background on Rowghani, who worked at ...
McAfee Lists Top Security Risks for Holiday Season, Including Smarter Hackers
McAfee Labs compiled a list of security considerations for the 2012 holiday season, including new threats that have only become commonplace in the past few quarters. The security firm’s research team counted 43.4 million suspect websites during the third quarter of 2012, 20 percent more than the number they identified three months earlier. McAfee considers ...
Pentaho Puts the Holiday Spirit Into Analytics with “12 Days of Visualization”
Pentaho’s latest side-project is putting the holiday spirit into open-source analytics. The BI software maker teamed up with Portuguese chart maker Webdetails to release one free visualization add-on a day from December 17 through the 7th of January. The three visualizations that have been debuted so far are Sunuburst, Zoom Chart and Trellis Chart. They ...
It’s A Data-Driven Approach to Manage Outsourcing for This International Firm
Michigan-based logistics firm Con-way has taken an information-driven approach to keep tabs on which service provider handles which data assets, according to chief financial Chris Levitt. Levitt’s department is responsible for, among other things, managing the six different vendors that supply the $5.3 billion company with the servers, personal computers and software that power its infrastructure. ...
Keep Your Personal Mobile Data Safe with Help From the… FCC?
Security software maker Lookout is offering new mobile users information on how they can protect their data and avoid cyber threats through a web service that it launched yesterday. The Smartphone Security Checker is hosted on the FCC’s website and lists several other cosponsors besides Lookout, including the Department of Homeland Security, The National Cyber Security ...
Howard Elias’ Take on The IT Skill Gap for Big Data, Cloud
Howard Elias, the president and COO of EMC’s services unit, wrote up a very insightful piece about the growing skill gap in two key areas of IT: cloud computing and big data. These new technologies are creating opportunities for both vendors and the client organizations that leverage them to do business. The innovation in recent ...