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He’s not running blind: Wearable tech will help Boston Marathon contestant reach the finish line
When he crosses the starting line of the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, blind runner Erich Manser will be accompanied by two assistants – one immediately to his left and another 800 miles away in Ohio. Manser (pictured) is the first marathon runner to test a new adaptive technology from La Jolla, California-based startup Aira ...
Study finds ‘digital business’ is still just a dream for many
For all the talk about digital transformation, it appears there’s little actual transforming going on. A new survey of 1,000 companies by The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., and underwritten by Dell EMC, finds that only about 5 percent of organizations have fully embraced all the elements of information technology transformation that are needed to become a digital ...
Application container use surges, but lack of persistent storage irks more companies
Investment in containers, the simple, portable software wrappers for applications, is growing rapidly, but a lack of support for persistent storage has arisen as the top challenge of companies adopting the technology. That’s according to the results of a new survey conducted by Portworx Inc. The survey of 491 information technology professionals found that two-thirds are running ...
You can open your eyes now: Okta soars 38 percent in first-day trading
Maybe it’s finally safe to go back in the water. Enterprise-focused identity management startup Okta Inc. took a gamble on today’s initial public offering, pricing its shares at the top end of its $15 to $17 target, but the bet paid off as the stock surged nearly 40 percent to close at $23.51 in NASDAQ ...
Fintech upstarts present a growing threat to financial services incumbents, says PwC
Financial firms are at a high risk of disruption from tech-driven competitors, but rather than fighting or hiding, a majority of traditional companies are moving to embrace their disruptors, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP report. The report, which is based on a survey of more than 1,300 senior executives in the financial services and ...
Semarchy brings material design to ‘master data management’
Semarchy Inc. hopes to help democratize master data management with new software that uses material design principles to simplify the process of data harmonization. MDM is an approach to linking important data across an organization to a single master file that acts as a common point of reference. The intent is to minimize data duplication ...
Crunchbase raises $18M as it seeks to become a broad-based data provider
Crunchbase Inc., the tech startup directory that grew out of the popular TechCrunch news site and was spun out of AOL Inc. 18 months ago, has raised $18 million in a series B funding round and launched a high-end Crunchbase Enterprise version of its premium subscription services. The latest round was led by Mayfield Fund and brings to ...
Survey shows lackadaisical attitudes toward cloud security risks
Information technology professionals may worry a lot about cloud security, but a new survey indicates they’re doing little about it. The survey of more than 3,000 IT professionals by cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. found that only 24 percent of organizations routinely monitor software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service accounts. That’s despite the fact that 87 percent ...
SugarCRM gives its mobile app an overhaul
With use of its mobile app tripling year-over-year, SugarCRM Inc. is buffing up the iOS and Android software with a host of new usability and management features. Many of the enhancements relate to “streamlining where the clicks are and making intuitive actions part of the flow,” said Clint Oram, co-founder and chief marketing officer. “We also did a ...
Hortonworks announces faster, more secure data platform
Hortonworks Inc. today announced a new version of its data platform, boosting query performance, strengthening security and streamlining data management operations. With version 2.6 of the Hortonworks Data Platform, based on the open-source Hadoop software framework for handling very large datasets distributed on many computers, the company claims to be the first Hadoop vendor to ...
