Couchbase raises $60M as investors double down on NoSQL
There’s more news on the NoSQL front, with industry leader Couchbase pulling in a healthy $60 million of Silicon Valley cash as it bids to muscle in on the territory of legacy giants like…
Facebook’s Oculus VR nabs Xbox 360 controller maker Carbon Design Group
By Saroj Kar
The design firm behind the Xbox 360 controller and the original Kinect now belongs to Oculus VR. The team will be an important part for creating new controls and likely create better virtual reality…
Logentries boosts DevOps log analysis with real-time team annotation
By Kyt Dotson
DevOps teams live and thrive not just on their tools but their capability to communicate discoveries in a timely fashion. To do this, a multitude of DevOps tools are on the market, but Logentries,…
The curious case of why Red Hat won’t certify on HP’s OpenStack distro | #HPdiscover
By Rose Meadows
HP has the ability to run Red Hat’s distribution on its Helion OpenStack platform and welcomes a certification for it. So, why won’t Red Hat certify it on HP? At HP Discover 2014 in…
Nimble’s place in the flash market | #AdaptiveFlash
As a player in the flash market since its inception, and in an attempt to meet customer needs, Nimble has developed several innovative applications. Product options include the company’s adaptive flash array storage solution,…
Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan
With a fresh new $20 million funding round in its pocket a new distribution strategy built on open source licensing, database startup Aerospike is bidding to become a major player in a market segment…
Support services are so much more than break/fix | #HPdiscover
By Rose Meadows
Many consider support services to be just about break/fix, but according to Scott Weller, SVP & GM of Technology Services Support for HP, it’s so much more than that for customers. At HP Discover…
GE bets on Internet of Things with investment partnership
Planning to foster more than 30 start-ups, General Electric Co. and Frost Data Capital have partnered to found the Frost I3 Industrial Internet incubator. Frost I3 is charged with no small task: to nurture massive change…
IBM moves more of its Big Data portfolio to the cloud
IBM strengthened its Big Data portfolio with yesterday’s announcement of IBM Navigator on Cloud, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that is the latest in a line of Big Data and Analytics services that…
Google ups the ante with better apps and unlimited storage
Google has announced big changes to its Drive cloud storage and Apps suite, all intended to compete more effectively with the Microsoft Office 365 juggernaut. I have to wonder how much it really matters. To understand the…