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Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB
MariaDB Corp., the most recent company to make a case for a profitable open-source business model, today announced a vote of confidence in the form of a $27 million investment led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Also participating were existing investors Intel Capital Corp., California Technology Ventures LLC, Tesi Group, SmartFin Capital and Open Ocean SAS. MariaDB’s ...
Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks
The internet was never designed to be secure, a fact that has given information technology organizations fits for more than 20 years. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol behind the internet assumes a high level of trust for devices that are on an internal network and willingly shares information about other devices on the same subnet, ...
Application container-friendly Pentaho 8 gets native Kafka support
The Hitachi Vantara subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has added support for Apache Kafka streaming data in version 8 of its Pentaho data integration and analytics software. The move, announced on Oct. 26, extends the company’s embrace of the open-source ecosystem building around Apache Spark and its Spark Streaming extension, which are commonly used with Kafka. Pentaho 8.0 fully enables ...
ServiceNow beats forecasts, but slowing growth rate unsettles investors
ServiceNow Inc. beat forecasts on quarterly revenue and profit, but a weaker-than-expected forecast for subscription revenues spooked investors, who knocked the stock back about 4 percent in after-hours trading. The maker of cloud-based workflow automation and service management software maintained its historically scorching growth rates with a 37 percent increase in quarterly revenue over the ...
Segment enables marketers to target audiences of one
Data segmentation and analytics firm Segment.io Inc. is giving its customers the ability to synthesize large amounts of customer data into individual profiles that can be used for personalization. The feature, called Personas, establishes a central record of an organization’s entire relationship with a customer for purposes such as email marketing, advertising, social media interactions ...
AMD beats earnings forecasts, but stock plunges on light outlook
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates on revenue and profit in the third quarter, but investors were clearly hoping the good times would continue in the new quarter, as they knocked the chip maker’s stock back nearly 11 percent in after-hours trading. “Wall Street had expected a bigger Q3 after a stellar ...
Cloud automation provider HashiCorp boosts war chest with $40M funding
HashiCorp Inc.’s ability to raise cash is growing. A little more than a year after banking $24 million in funding, the infrastructure automation provider today said that it has raised a $40 million series C round from existing investors, bringing its total funding to $74 million. The round was led by GGV Capital and included Redpoint ...
In a bid to make graph databases more accessible, Neo4j gets a revamp
Bidding to keep its market-leading graph database engine out in front against new competition, Neo Technology Inc. today is unveiling an integration and visualization layer on top of its platform that adds analytics, data import/transformation, visualization and data discovery to its core engine. The Native Graph Platform is said to make it easier for non-graph ...
Cray and Microsoft will deliver supercomputer power from Azure data centers
Seeking to expand the universe of potential customers for its supercomputers beyond government labs and academic institutions, Cray Inc. today said it has struck an exclusive deal with Microsoft Corp. that will provide dedicated Cray systems in Microsoft Azure data centers. Supercomputers are used for processor-intensive tasks that exceed even the capabilities of high-end mainframes. Typical ...
CloudHealth’s new CEO seeks to solve for multicloud complexity
There are a lot of reasons for companies to use more than one cloud computing infrastructure provider. A multivendor strategy enables them to take advantage of deals and discounts, shift workloads to the most appropriate platform and leverage the unique strength and tools of each provider. But going multicloud adds to complexity, and that’s where CloudHealth ...