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Okta aims to secure companies’ internal APIs with new identity service
The competition in the API management market is increasing rapidly as more vendors move to capitalize on the estimated 400 percent growth that the segment is expected to see by 2020. The latest entrant is Okta Inc., which is rolling out a new version of its popular identity management platform that promises to help organizations regulate ...
Analysis: Cisco steps up Docker battle with ContainerX acquisition
Like most other incumbent data center vendors, Cisco Systems Inc. is actively working to address the growing adoption of Docker in the enterprise. The company kicked its efforts into high gear today by acquiring a low-level startup called ContainerX Inc. that has developed a platform for managing microservices deployments. According to Dave Bartoletti of Forrester ...
IPO shelved? LogRhythm raises $50M amid public offering rumors
Two months after word leaked that it’s pursuing a public offering, LogRhythm Inc. appears to have had a change of heart. The fast-rising network protection provider announced today that it’s raised $50 million from private investors in a funding round likely meant to delay its stock market debut. The anonymous insiders who leaked LogRhythm’s plans to Bloomberg ...
Glint bags $27 million for its HR analytics platform
Maintaining employee morale is often much easier said than done in large organizations with upwards of thousands of people on the payroll. One of the startups working to ease the task is Glint Inc., which raised $27 million from a group of investors co-led by Meritech Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners this morning to ...
VMware takes its virtualization software to the cloud, again
VMware Inc. may end up becoming a force to be reckoned with in the infrastructure-as-a-service market after all, just not the way it originally planned. The computer and network virtualization company today debuted a new platform called Cloud Foundation that promises to help organizations manage and secure their off-premise workloads more effectively. It combines VMware’s flagship vSphere ...
What you missed in Big Data: Identifying complex patterns
The intensifying competition in the analytics world is driving many startups to seek additional funding or, if that’s not feasible, a buyout. One of the most recent examples is Hadoop hosting provider Altiscale Inc., which was last week revealed to be in process of finalizing a $125-million-plus acquisition agreement with SAP SA. The deal is ...
What you missed in Cloud: A changing competitive landscape
As Amazon and Microsoft consolidate their hold over the public cloud, smaller providers are being forced to change strategies. Rackspace Hosting Inc. became the latest such contender to shift gears last week by accepting a $4.3 billion takeover bid from private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC. The deal will take the company off the stock ...
Intel unveils new SSDs for data centers, connected devices and PCs
A week after its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco, Intel Corp. is making headlines once again by launching six new SSDs for three different markets. The fastest of the new additions is the enterprise-oriented DCP3520, a 0.2U drive that can handle to 375,000 random reads and 26,000 random write operations per second while also providing ...
Report: SAP is buying Hadoop-as-a-service startup Altiscale for over $125M
It appears that more consolidation is on the way for the analytics ecosystem. An anonymous insider has told VentureBeat that SAP SA is in the final steps of closing a $125-million-plus agreement to acquire Altiscale Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup that provides managed data processing services. The outfit started out in 2012 with a hosted implementation of ...
IBM follows Amazon and Microsoft to South Korea
IBM has expanded its global cloud network once again by launching a new hosting facility in the South Korean city of Pangyo, which is located a short drive away from Seoul. The data center is part of a collaboration between the vendor and regional technology giant SK Holdings C&C Co. that aims to address the growing local demand ...