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Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. The company, which raised a total of $280 million in financing since it was founded ...
JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery software
JetStream Software Inc. today said it secured new early-stage funding of $7.7 million for its data protection technology aimed at managed service and cloud service providers. The company had raised $3.8 million in an unannounced seed funding round early last year. JetStream President Richard Petersen said the company will use the funding to invest in sales, ...
Dialpad gives sales reps real-time call transcription and coaching
Dialpad Inc., developer of business messaging and conferencing systems based on the voice over internet protocol, is deepening its push into the sales force automation market. The latest fruit of the effort is today’s announcement of Dialpad Sell, a cloud service that uses voice recognition and machine learning to transcribe sales calls, interpret customer sentiment, ...
Momentary blip or strike two? Pure Storage earnings miss again
Pure Storage Inc. missed expectations on earnings and revenues for the second straight quarter today, sending its stock plunging more than 18% in after-hours trading. The decline continued after the opening bell on Wednesday, with PSTG down 22% at mid-day. The company said it continues to grow at double the industry average rate, but investments ...
Stratoscale furthers its drive toward a multicloud hybrid platform
Continuing its evolution from a provider of hyperconverged software into the developer of a full private cloud software stack, Stratoscale Ltd. today introduced a new version of its namesake offering. Version 5 adds new identity management services along with support for message buses, domain name services, improved monitoring and database replication. It also adds improved services for ...
Datastax previews cloud-native version of its Cassandra-based database
DataStax Inc. will kick off its new user conference today by introducing a cloud-native version of its Apache Cassandra-based NoSQL database management system, along with a set of services to enable users to get started rapidly developing applications in the cloud. DataStax Constellation is the foundation for what Chief Executive Billy Bosworth said will eventually be ...
Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost-management market heats up
Apptio Inc., which makes software that helps companies get a tighter grip on their information technology expenses, has signed a deal to acquire Cloudability Inc., an eight-year-old startup that specializes in tracking costs across multiple clouds. Terms weren’t announced, but Apptio said the acquired company’s specialty fits snugly into its existing Apptio Cloud Business Management service ...
Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform. The announcement today fills an important gap in Confluent’s product portfolio. Although the company has sold its streaming platform as a cloud service for some ...
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Digital transformation boom thrusts CIOs into media spotlight
For Bernie Gracy, the culmination of 20 years of speaking experience came last fall when he stepped on stage in front of 7,000 people at a Amazon Web Services Inc. conference in Chicago last summer. “This old dog had to learn some new tricks for that one,” said Gracy, chief digital officer at Agero Inc., ...
Red Hat rolls out OpenShift 4 with focus on scalability and automation
Calling it a common operating platform for the hybrid cloud, Red Hat, Inc. today rolled out version 4 of OpenShift, its version of the Kubernetes platform for container orchestration. The new version adds extensive automation features that Red Hat said enable administrators to provision and manage large container collections across a mix of infrastructure. Originally positioned ...