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Inside Lucata’s graph analytics-optimized superserver
The field of graph analytics was virtually unknown outside of the academic realm just a few years ago, but all that has changed with the market’s insatiable hunger for all things big data. The top two companies in the graph database market – Neo4j Inc. and TigerGraph Inc. — have collectively raised more than $760 ...
CData bags $140M from a single investor to expand its cloud data connectivity scope
CData Software Inc., a seven-year-old firm that specializes in connecting data from multiple sources, today announced a new $140 million funding round. The Series B round brings its total funding to $160 million, all from a single investor, Updata Management LLC. Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based CData addresses a problem that is growing as businesses seek ...
Secretive security startup Dazz reveals $60M in funding
Dazz Inc., a cloud security remediation startup whose co-founders include two former Microsoft Corp. security executives, today announced it has raised $60 million in initial funding. The funding includes a $50 million Series A round and a $10 million seed round that was previously undisclosed, according to a published report in VentureBeat. The one-year-old company said ...
Red Hat launches beta test of automated image-building service for hybrid clouds
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today launched a public beta test of a new hosted service called Image Builder that the company said can streamline the process of assembling customized Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system images for hybrid cloud environments. The service addresses the tedious and error-prone process of building or installing operating systems ...
Aryaka challenges telcos with new managed SD-WAN and SASE offerings
In a bid to shake up what it says is an outmoded model for deploying and managing software-defined wide-area networks, Aryaka Networks Inc. today rolled out new SD-WAN and secure access service edge offerings as managed services. The company says they bypass the need to work with telecom carriers and the expensive multiprotocol label switching ...
Aruba extends remote-work network support to home offices
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba networking subsidiary is making it easier for enterprises to manage and secure home- and small-office environments with a software upgrade being announced today, The company said it delivers in-office-like services to home workers via a single Wi-Fi access point without the need for a gateway, agent or additional hardware. The ...
MongoDB again toasts Wall Street estimates on strong cloud growth
MongoDB Inc. shares rose sharply in extended trading after the database company posted third-quarter revenue growth of better than 50% and a loss that crushed analysts’ expectations for the second straight quarter. In after-hours trading, MongoDB shares soared more than 14%. The stock is still down 12% from its all-time high of three weeks ago ...
How culture slows the path to data literacy
In his new book, “Fail Fast, Learn Faster,” Randy Bean uses exhaustive anecdotal evidence to make the case that businesses must become data-driven or risk irrelevance. Bean, who is the founder of data-focused consultancy NewVantage Partners, has been evangelizing that message for years as a regular contributor to major business publications and in an annual ...
Snowflake brightens Wall Street gloom with blowout quarter
Snowflake Inc. provided a ray of sunshine in what has otherwise been an awful, horrible, very bad week on Wall Street with an earnings report today that showed revenue more than doubling in the most recent quarter and strong guidance. The cloud data warehousing company posted revenue of $334.4 million in its fiscal third quarter, ...
NetApp posts strong results as shift to hybrid cloud services bears fruit
NetApp’s corporate transformation from a storage maker to a provider of hybrid cloud data services and data management continues to make progress. The company today reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.28 per share, up 22% from a year ago and beating consensus estimates of $1.21. Revenues rose 10.6% from the same quarter last year, to $1.57 ...