New router doubles as smart home hub
This week’s Smart Living roundup features the latest industry team ups nurturing the smart home market, and a router that doubles as a smart hub. SolarCity and Nest partner up to deliver more energy savings…
The Apple Watch is Insanely Good, that’s not enough
Apple CEO Tim Cook and design king Jony Ive have passed their first test. The Apple Watch, apparently designed fresh after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, is a respectable piece of work.…
Mortal Kombat fans care about humor more than shock value
By Eric David
When games like Street Fighter were still showing less violence than a professional boxing match, Mortal Kombat had decapitations, burnt corpses, and ripped out hearts — still beating, of course. The series’ violence was both its greatest controversy and…
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RethinkDB releases first production version of its real-time database
The competition in the data management world is moving up yet another notch with the release of what is touted as the first production-ready release of RethinkDB, the open-source document store from the startup…
DataStax brings enterprise grade Cassandra database to HP Moonshot
DataStax, the company that commercializes the open-source Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to deliver an enterprise-grade version of its software on HP Moonshot, the low-power, hyperscale servers that “changed…
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Stack Overflow’s record-shattering developer survey sheds new light on the state of coding
Professional programmers are mostly self-educated, love their work and make comfortable salaries, particularly if they work with hot languages like Objective-C, Node.js and C#. They are overwhelmingly male, although there is some evidence that…
Docker nabs massive Series D financing of $95 million | #DockerMadness
By John Furrier
Docker, Inc. announced a new $95 million funding round, marking another major endorsement for the fast-growing startup whose container technology is the latest craze in cloud development. This new round of funding was led by…
Networks need to be as agile as the businesses they support | #AWSSummit
By Eric David
The drive for agile business led F5 Networks to offer its functions and services through the Amazon Marketplace, Senior Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pierce told hosts John Furrier and Marc Farley on theCUBE during AWS…
Mobile vision company Movidius raises $40 million Series E
By Duncan Riley
Mobile vision company Movidius Ltd. has raised $40 million Series E in a round led by Summit Bridge Capital that included Atlantic Bridge Capital, AIB Seed Capital Fund, Capital-E, DFJ Esprit and Robert Bosch Venture Capital,…
Illumio raises monster funding of $100 million for new security model
By John Furrier
Illumio has raised $100 million in new financing for its potentially game-changing approach to data center and cloud security. The latest round was led by BlackRock Funds, Accel Partners and others including industry leaders…