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Contrast Security raises $16M to help applications defend against attacks
By their nature, the traditional security tools that organizations use to protect their in-house workloads don’t lend themselves too well to modern services deployed in the cloud or inside containers. As a result, chief information officers are turning to new-generation breach prevention providers such as Contrast Security Inc., which raised $16 million in funding today ...
Akamai picks up stream processing startup Concord
Analytics appears to be taking on a bigger role in Akamai Technologies Inc.’s growth plans. The content delivery giant today announced that it has acquired Concord Systems Inc., the New York-based startup behind the open-source stream processing engine of the same name. The framework employs Apache Mesos to handle the logistics of distributing analytics workflows ...
Druva raises $51M to help companies protect their off-premises data
Organizations have limited control over the business information that employees store in the cloud and on their mobile devices, but that information needs to be protected just as much as the data they keep behind the firewall. One of the vendors working to address the challenge is Druva Software Pvt Ltd., which raised $51 million in ...
Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises
As the Apache open source software Kafka continues to gain traction among large organizations for its ability to handle streaming data such as Twitter feeds, their requirements are becoming an increasingly important priority in the project’s roadmap. Confluent Inc. set out to address some of those demands today by adding new automation features to its ...
Deep learning startup Skymind bags $3M to help companies build better AIs
Artificial intelligence startups are emerging as a magnet for venture capital investment. Today, it was the San Francisco-based Skymind Inc. that took the spotlight after raising $3 million in funding from Chinese web giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., Y Combinator and three other early-stage backers. The group joins an already impressive list of investors that includes ...
SAP to invest $2.2B to expand its Internet of Things business
With Gartner Inc. expecting enterprise investment in connected devices and related technologies to reach $1.4 trillion per year by 2020, it’s no surprise that information technology vendors are so enthusiastic about the trend. SAP SE became the latest to join the fray today by announcing that it will spend €2 billion ($2.2 billion) over the ...
ProsperWorks bags $24M to fill Google Apps’ CRM gap
While it has emerged as a serious contender to Microsoft Corp. in cloud-based productivity software, Google still lacks many of the features provided by its rival. But the search giant has a broad network of partners working to fill the gaps. Among them is ProsperWorks Inc., which raised $24 million today for its customer relationship ...
Pentaho doubles down on Hadoop and Spark
Large-scale analytics projects tend to incorporate numerous different components that must work seamlessly with one another for the combined whole to operate smoothly. As a result, data management vendors place a big emphasis on making their software interoperable with third party tools. Pentaho is doubling down today by adding enhanced support for several key technologies ...
Podium Data raises $9.5M to make Hadoop-based data lakes a reality
Consolidating an organization’s disparate data management systems into one centralized repository can theoretically ease processing, but the approach has proven difficult to implement in practice. One of the vendors trying to remedy the situation is a Massachusetts-based startup called Podium Data Inc. that raised $9.5 million today to fuel its work. The funding was led ...
What you missed in Big Data: AI continues to gain momentum
Artificial intelligence technology is finding its way to every corner of the modern enterprise. Last week Google set out to help organizations embrace the trend faster by acquiring a startup called API.AI Inc. that has developed a cloud-based chatbot builder. The platform provides pre-packaged communications modules, a repository of encyclopedic data and other components that ...
