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Okera brings intelligent schema management to S3 data lakes
Okera Inc., a startup founded by two former Cloudera Inc. executives to simplify the management of large heterogeneous data stores at scale, today is introducing a schema management tool designed to make it easier for companies to find, access and structure data from popular data analytics tools running on top of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ...
TigerGraph brings its graph database to the cloud
TigerGraph Inc. is bringing its graph database to the cloud in announcement being made today at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference. The company, which launched a little over a year ago with $31 million in funding, claims to have the world’s fastest graph analytics platform. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business
Technology giant Siemens AG hires 35,000 people each year, sorting through some 2 million applicants for positions in 120 countries in 20 languages. Search is essential to such a massive recruiting process, but language, cultural and industry differences have long been a problem in matching candidates to available positions. “I might be looking for a software ...
Sigma Computing marries spreadsheets, SQL for cloud data warehouse access
More than 750 million people worldwide use spreadsheets, and that’s why Sigma Computing Inc. thinks the familiar row-and-column metaphor is a good way to work with data warehouses as well. The company recently introduced an analytics tool that provides live access to data in popular cloud data warehouses from Snowflake Computing Inc., Google LLC and Amazon Web ...
BlackBerry furthers IoT push with $1.4B acquisition of security firm Cylance
Continuing its pivot away from its traditional smartphone market and into cybersecurity, BlackBerry Ltd. announced its biggest acquisition ever this morning, picking up security firm Cylance Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash. Cylance, which focuses on manufacturing and “internet of things” applications, will operate as an independent business unit. But BlackBerry said it will quickly ...
IBM, ServiceNow team up to expedite customers’ multicloud migrations
IBM Corp. is stepping up its pitch to be the preferred multicloud manager for enterprise businesses. The computer and services giant today announced a partnership with workflow automation and service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. and enhancements to its Cloud Migration Factory. Like most IBM partnership announcements, few details were provided. IBM said only that ...
Alfresco brings its content/process management platform to Amazon Kubernetes and Glacier
Alfresco Software Inc. is bringing its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services platform to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS and adding support for Amazon Glacier archival storage in a new release announced today. The company’s Digital Business Platform can be used to create automated workflows involving ...
ClearSky raises $20M, partners with Equinix to expand its storage as a service
ClearSky Data Inc. said today it has raised $20 million in venture financing and signed a partnership with colocation provider Equinix Inc. that will expand its footprint across the U.S. and eventually internationally. ClearSky sells a storage-as-a-service platform that provides guaranteed performance and data protection across a global network by using colocated equipment and a proprietary ...
Red Hat tightens container integration with latest OpenShift release
Red Hat Inc. is upping its Kubernetes game with the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the latest version of its infrastructure-as-a-service product. The new version announced early today, which is based upon the OpenStack “Rocky” community version, improves integration with OpenShift, Red Hat’s own version of Kubernetes, and features better support for bare-metal ...
Talend shares plunge 35% on weak guidance, plans to buy data prep company
Updated: Data integration software provider Talend SA slightly beat Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal third quarter on revenue that matched analysts’ forecasts, but the news wasn’t all good today. The company also issued fourth-quarter guidance that was slightly below consensus estimates and said its on-premises data transformation business is contracting faster than expected, ...