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Uila launches Hadoop-powered monitoring platform for VMware shops
There is no shortage of vendors promising to centralize the work of IT professionals in a “single pane of glass”, but reality rarely lives up to the hype, especially when it comes to data center monitoring software. Organizations have to use a multitude of different tools in order to keep track of their virtualized infrastructure ...
Wavefront exits stealth to put data science in the hands of IT pros
While the industry spotlight was fixed on the success of early cloud-based monitoring providers such as New Relic Inc. and DataDog Inc., an emerging contender called Wavefront Inc. has been quietly building up a formidable customer base in the background. The startup exited stealth mode today with more than $20 million in financing from Sequoia ...
What you missed in Big Data: Empowering analysts
It seems that barely a few days can go by nowadays without some vendor launching a new tool to simplify data processing. Last week, that vendor was Talend Inc., which introduced a freemium desktop application for molding spreadsheets into a form that can be ingested by modern business intelligence software. Its main selling point is ...
What you missed in Cloud: The one-upmanship continues
Since the cost of hardware is declining at more or less the same rate across the entire industry, the top cloud providers increasingly have to look beyond price-cutting in order to set themselves apart. The trend saw Amazon Inc. venture into the gaming world last week with the launch of a new homegrown development engine designed to ...
DataRobot snags $33M from VCs to automate machine learning
There are countless vendors promising to simplify the processing of unstructured information, but most don’t take the idea nearly as far DataRobot Inc. has. The three-year-old startup today closed a $33 million funding round meant to help sustain the edge of its analytics service, which attempts to automate every major chore involved in creating number-crunching algorithms starting with ...
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks triples revenue in Q4
Demand for Hadoop in the enterprise is not merely growing fast but at an accelerating rate as well if the latest earnings report from Hortonworks Inc. is anything to go by. The distributor claims to have generated $37 million in revenue during the fourth quarter, which constitutes a massive 196 percent jump from last year. In ...
100K taxpayers compromised in latest IRS hack
Some changes are clearly in order at the cybersecurity department of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Less than six months after admitting that hackers pilfered personal information about more than 300,000 individuals from its website, the agency has revealed that another 101,000 accounts were compromised in a similar attack a few weeks ago. The breach ...
VMware unleashes vSAN 6.2 on the hyperconverged infrastructure world
The competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure market kicked up a notch this morning after VMware Inc. debuted a major new version of its Virtual SAN (vSAN) software for managing server-attached storage. The release promises to increase the amount of data that can be kept on a given machine by up to ten times using a set ...
HPE joins $8M funding round into Israeli security startup Hexadite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been unusually active in the venture capital scene since separating from its former consumer electronics business last November. A month ago, the company backed storage startup Scality Inc. to the tune of $10 million, and today it’s been named among the contributors to a $8 million investment in another up-and-coming player ...
As unicorns falter, ThinkingPhones raises $112M to boost cloud-based calling
The sharp decline in venture capital activity that has been recorded over recent quarters didn’t stop ThinkingPhones Inc. from closing a mammoth $112 million round this morning to fund its growth effort. The cloud-based communications provider is rebranding to “Fuze” on the occasion in a bid to reflect the fact that its focus has expanded beyond ...
