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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 …
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, …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …