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This week a startup called Precog that it received $2 million in a first round of funding led by RP Ventures, only three months after it came out of stealth at the Strata conference. The company offers a cloud-based platform that analyzes …
VisibleGains Puts the Pizzazz Back in Cloud Storage
The personal and enterprise cloud storage industry has become extremely crowded, and it sometimes seems that this scenario doesn’t leave all that much room for innovation. Dropbox and Box have claimed the lion’s share of this market, while the rest is split …
Objectivity Claims Big Wins for NoSQL
Objectivity is a veteran database company that has been making software to help large enterprises manage their data since 1988. More recently they jumped aboard the NoSQL bandwagon, and now reports that its distributed object DB solution is becoming more popular than …
Rumble in the Cloud: SAP Makes An Investment in Procurement with Ariba
Business software maker SAP announced its latest multi-billion dollar deal today: the acquisition of Ariba. SAP has agreed to pay $45 per share, a 20 percent premium over ARBA’s closing price on May 21. The merger will have to go through the …
Head of Unified Storage Talks Consumption Models, Flash at EMC World 2012
Rich Napolitano, the president of EMC’s unified storage division, is attending the EMC World conference held this week and stopped by theCube to discuss a few of his favorite topics with Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante (see full video below). Napolitano dedicated …
Talend Announces Greenplum Integration @ EMC World
Talend announced a major big data push at the EMC World conference held this week. The company, which makes data integration and management software, has integrated its platform with the entire Greenplum portfolio: that includes Greenplum HD, Greenplum MR, the Unified Analytics …
Geoloqi API and Dev Kit Launching on Titanium
Geoloqi is an embedded solution that lays down the ground work for just about any location-based service, whether it’s a Foursquare clone or an enterprise app. And today the platform reached a very significant milestone – it’s now an add-on in Titanium …
Android is Too Slippery for Microsoft, Must Remain Open for China
Motorola managed to steer its way through two different rounds of regulatory bureaucracy this week, and this has implications across the entire Android ecosystem. The first update comes from the courtroom, or more specifically, a lawsuit from Microsoft alleging that Motorola infringed …
What to Expect at Greenplum’s Data Science Summit: EMC World 2012
Since EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum in 2010, they’ve become a regular at EMC World. This year the firm is holding the second annual Data Science Summit, one of several community events going within the conference. Things kick off today and will continue through tomorrow. …
Taming the Big Data Gorilla [Infographic]
Wikibon released a new infographic that lays out the value proposition behind Big Data and provides vivid example of real-world Big Data usecases. Big data has certainly gotten “big,” and its growing at fast pace. According to Google, the term’s popularity has …