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Cloudyn raises $11M to expand cloud management platform
Multi-cloud management startup Cloudyn Ltd. said it has raised an $11 million Series B round of financing and plans to use the infusion to expand its U.S. presence. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based firm is also looking to expand its support of private clouds through support of VMware Inc. and Microsoft Azure Private Cloud platforms. Currently, ...
Digital business still a lot more talk than action, says Capgemini study
Like teenage sex, digital business still appears to be a lot more talk than action, according to a new report by Capgemini Consulting. Its survey of more than 270 senior executives at 135 companies in 28 countries conducted in collaboration with the MIT Center for Digital Business found that the payoffs of organizing a company ...
Startup Anodot uses machine learning to hunt for anomalies
Fresh from a $3 million Series A funding round, Israeli analytics startup Anodot, Inc. exits stealth today with a real-time analytics engine focused on anomaly detection. The system uses patented machine learning algorithms to deliver what it claims is unparalleled ease-of-use and rapid response when finding data patterns that deviate from the expected norms. The ...
MapR advances real-time push with integration platform
Continuing a recent push into the real-time data processing that began with the 5.0 release of its namesake Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today debuted a converged messaging and data integration platform that it says simplifies the delivery of streaming data by using a single pipe that can access multiple data sources and deliver to ...
Tips for writing year-end predictions
Each year the holiday season brings SiliconANGLE a deluge of inquiries from vendors and their agencies about publishing their predictions for the coming year. I’ll be blunt: Most of these predictions articles are dull and, well, predictable. And since everyone does them, they’re no longer very distinctive. If you want your predictions post to be ...
AppDynamics raises $158M, updates monitoring platform
Red-hot application monitoring startup AppDynamics, Inc. kicked off its annual user conference by announcing that it has closed a $158 million funding round and released a new version of its Application Intelligence Platform that adds server infrastructure and browser-simulated monitoring as well as support for C/C++ applications and enhanced analytics. With the new funding, led by General Atlantic and Altimeter Capital, among ...
Sizing up public cloud: Amazon dominant, but not indomitable
First in a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. So much praise has been showered on Amazon Web Services (AWS) this year, particularly in the afterglow of its recent re:Invent conference, that there’s no longer any question AWS is the default cloud provider for ...
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 ...