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Pica8 grabs $12.5M funding to show its software is key to SDN
Software-defined networking (SDN) startup Pica8 Inc. has just announced a $12.5 million funding round led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Cross Head and Pacific Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to more than $20 million. Steve Garrison, Vice President of Marketing at Pica8, broke the news during an appearance on theCUBE at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld ...
StackEngine wants to help organize your Docker containers
Docker containers are one of the most hyped-up technologies of the last few years, but there’s still a long way to go before containers fulfill their potential of supplanting traditional virtualization. The key to moving Docker along is deployment, management and orchestration tools, says a new startup called StackEngine. The Austin, TX-based company has just unveiled a ...
Open Data’s dirty secret: poor quality and potential for abuse
This week the government released data on more than 4.4 million medical payment records in line with its Open Payments initiative, and it’s already come in for some strong criticism from the media. It’s a reminder that open data, while free, is usually far from perfect. The controversial release, which is required under the Affordable ...
Oracle makes a splash in the all-flash party with its FS1-2 arrays
Oracle Corp. has burst back into the SAN storage scene with the launch of its new Oracle FS1-2 Flash Storage System, which is “like no other array on the market”, writes Wikibon analyst David Floyer in his latest professional alert. According to Floyer, the FS1-2 provides oustanding performance in Oracle application environments thanks to number ...
Reddit gets $50m funding, plans new cryptocurrency to share the wealth
Self-styled ‘front page of the Internet’ site Reddit.com is flush with case all of a sudden, after confirimg a new $50 million funding round. It’s a bucket-load of cash to be sure, but what’s more interesting is that the site is promising as much as 10 percent of the amount will be shared with community ...
AMD shows off Hadoop running on an ARM-based server
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) believes that ARM processor architecture will be the future of the data center, and says that servers running on 64-bit ARMv8 chips could be here sooner than you think. Putting its money where its mouth is, AMD’s Leendert van Doorn yesterday carried out the first public demonstration of two ARM ...
FireChat: Off-the-grid messaging app fuels Hong Kong’s protests
Sites like Twitter and Facebook hit the headlines for their role in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, and now pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have discovered a new kind of mobile service to help them organize their own rallies. Called FireChat, the service is a basically just a messaging app, but it’s quite different ...
Oracle’s new Sparc M7 chip delivers ‘ten times faster’ performance boost
Oracle Corp’s overarching message at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld event might be all about the cloud, but that doesn’t mean it’s keeping quiet in its hardware business. During his OpenWorld keynote on Sunday night, Oracle’s undisputed leader Larry Ellison revealed the company is still heavily invested in the Sparc processor technology it acquired along with ...
Cisco inflates hybrid ‘Intercloud’ with 30 new partners
With the cloud wars heating up, Cisco Systems has just announced a signifcant expansion of its Intercloud ecosystem, with 30 new global partners and a $1 billion injection of cash from Cisco Capital. Cisco is hoping to boost adoption of its Intercloud, an OpenStack-based technology that aims to bridge the gap between cloud service providers ...
Microsoft set to rebrand Windows OS with enterprise preview launch
Microsoft is readying for an invitation-only event on Tuesday where it’s expected to reveal a new monicker for the latest version of its Windows operating system. The event, which will only be attended by around 50 journalists and analysts, is the first of several focused on its new OS, codenamed “Threshold”. This week’s reveal should ...