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200-year-old publisher finds happiness with NoSQL database
When Ted Blizzard was presented with the idea of hosting mission-critical data on a NoSQL database way back in 2005, his initial reaction was predictable. “I said absolutely no way,” said Blizzard (below right), CIO of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the prestigious publication of the Massachusetts Medical Social that many people consider the ...
Datto scores $75 million to boost global expansion
Backup and recovery powerhouse Datto Inc. got a significant boost for its expansion efforts with a $75 million Series B funding round from a single investor: Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). The infusion brings Datto’s total fundraising to $100 million, a princely sum for a company that says it’s already profitable. The funding reportedly brings the firm’s ...
Startup takes Big Data approach to data center troubleshooting
An Atlanta-based startup is tackling the IT complexity problem with a big data approach, hoping partnerships with scores of point solution providers can yield unprecedented insight on the source of performance problems. OpsDataStore is a data ingestion layer and analytics engine that grabs information from a wide variety of operating systems, virtualization platforms, systems management ...
Startup says it’s made containers enterprise-friendly
With the surging popularity of containers creating a host of new companion platforms and accompanying management headaches, a startup founded by a team of former Citrix Systems, Inc., Microsoft, and VMware Inc. engineers and backed in part by former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is coming out with an orchestration platform that it hope will make ...
Sweet! Food firm’s integration recipe has all the right ingredients
Flavor maker Amoretti came up with a novel way to save money on software licensing costs and improve visibility into its operations by using data integration software to connect its customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning engines. The 30-year-old family business makes about 2,500 flavors used in recipes ranging from drink mixes to ...
SIOS quickens update pace for virtual machine performance analysis platform
SIOS Technology Corp. is doubling down on its new discipline of performance analytics with version 3.3 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software and promises to deliver updates every four to six weeks. The company, which started as a maker of clustering software more than 15 years ago, is pushing ahead aggressively with a new ...
If you think white-box hardware is cheaper, read this Wikibon report
“White box” appliances have been all the rage recently as users have sought to separate the functionality of software from underlying hardware. Makers of integrated appliances inflate hardware costs in an effort to squeeze more out of customers who are locked in to the software functionality they need. Or so the logic goes. But don’t ...
Managed cloud storage ends self-support headaches for online learning provider
For all the compelling cost and customization benefits that open source software promises, sometimes it’s easier just to hand the task off to someone else. That’s the decision online learning platform provider Moonami, LLC made recently when it opted to move 10 terabytes of self-managed storage off of Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Store (EBS) ...
Ask a Wikibon analyst: Is Amazon unstoppable in the cloud?
On the heels of a blitzkrieg of new product announcements and third-quarter earnings that blew away estimates, some people are asking if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is destined to become the Microsoft of the cloud. Not likely, said veteran cloud watcher and Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely (pictured below). The market is too big and diverse ...
ClearSky banks $27M to build out hybrid storage network
With the Dell Computer Inc. – EMC merger distracting two of the storage industry’s largest players, ClearSky Data Inc. thinks the time is right to tell enterprise customers that it has a better way to store and manage data. The company, which went public with its three-tier cloud architecture in August, announced that it has ...