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Dataiku raises $14M to help business and data pros collaborate better
Even with all the collaboration tools that are available to companies these days, coordinating the different personnel who take part in a large-scale analytics project can still be difficult. One of the startups working to ease the task is the New York-based Dataiku Inc., which raised $14 million in funding today from a group of ...
451 Research: OpenStack market will hit $5B by 2020
Six years after its initial release, the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack continues to gain steam. A new report from 451 Research predicts that the companies working to commercialize the project will generate total revenues of $1.8 billion this year, $2.5 billion in 2017 and north of $5 billion annually by the end of the decade. ...
Khosla-backed Chain opens up its blockchain to developers
Yet another proprietary blockchain architecture is going open-source. Chain Inc., a two-year-old startup backed up by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and several other financial institutions, today released its distributed ledger on GitHub under a free license. The move comes just days after another blockchain developer called R3CEV LLC announced plans to contribute the ...
What you missed in big data: an integrated approach
The growing influence of data on decision-making in the enterprise is turning analytics into a key focus area even for vendors that have historically made most of their revenue elsewhere. Last week, Dell Technologies Inc. joined the fray by introducing a new number-crunching platform that promises to help organizations make better use of internal information. ...
What you missed in cloud: data centers and human resources software
Cloud providers are rapidly deploying new infrastructure to address the growing demand for their services. Last week, Amazon Inc. launched three data centers in Ohio as part of the effort that will allow organizations from the Great Lakes region to host workloads closer to their offices. The provider now boasts 38 cloud facilities in 14 ...
Security startup Nozomi raises $7.5 million to protect industrial equipment
Data center hardware and employee endpoints aren’t the only part of an organization’s infrastructure that needs to be protected from hackers. Companies in certain industries such as the manufacturing sector must also safeguard the industrial control systems that power their production equipment, which are emerging as an increasingly frequent target for attack. This growing threat is ...
New ‘Dirty Cow’ vulnerability threatens Linux systems
The broad developer participation in leading open-source projects such as Linux creates plenty of opportunities to catch security problems. However, some bugs still fall through the cracks every now and then. The latest addition to the list is a “privilege escalation” vulnerability called “Dirty Cow,” or CVE-2016-5195 by its official designation, that started its life ...
Massive cyberattack takes down Twitter, Amazon, other top sites
East Coast residents and some international users woke up Friday morning to discover that many their favorite websites were unavailable. The outage lasted from 7:10 to 9:20 a.m. Eastern, but another attack was reported later in the day, and Twitter and other sites were down again as of at least 2 p.m. Eastern, even for West ...
Google reshuffles its cloud storage services in major upgrade
As part of its efforts to level the playing field against public cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services, Google Inc. today launched a new set of storage services that aim to make its cloud platform more appealing for large organizations with diverse workloads. The first major addition is an archiving option called Coldline that is designed to ...
Report: The industry’s two leading blockchain projects are merging
The financial industry’s efforts to develop a blockchain implementation suitable for the business world is about to cross a major milestone. R3CEV LLC, the company leading one of the two consortia involved in the push, today said it plans to release its core Codra technology under an open-source license on Nov. 30. Reuters reports that the ...
