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DataSift founder raises $3M for new privacy-focused analytics startup
Even though technology investors are a lot less generous with their capital than they were last year, raising funding for a bold new venture can still be a walk in the park if one has the kind of track record Nick Halstead does. The serial entrepreneur founded and led social analytics giant DataSift Inc. as ...
VMware overhauls its app virtualization software for the mobile workforce
The budding virtual reality industry has a long way to go before it’s ready to take on the enterprise, but if and when business users do start bringing their headsets to work, VMware Inc. will have come prepared. The vendor today unveiled a new iteration of its application virtualization client that aims to provide a unified experience across ...
Survey: 89 percent of companies are using IaaS
It’s no wonder that Amazon Web Services is approaching a $10 billion run-rate. A new poll of 1,060 companies from cloud management provider RightScale Inc. has found that 89 percent run applications outside the firewall, more than half of which are hosted on the retail giant’s very own infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Amazon’s customers are typically much further along ...
Data wrangling startup Trifacta takes on $35M from Greylock and friends
Triple-digit growth rates are hardly uncommon for analytics startups nowadays, but the over 700 percent sales increase that Trifacta Inc. claims to have witnessed last year should be enough to turn heads even among the most seasoned industry observers. That figure helped the emerging data wrangling provider secure an additional $35 million in funding this morning ...
Hired lands $40M to help companies find developers more easily
Much like every other part of business operations in the enterprise, recruitment is too undergoing significant changes as a result of the growing reliance on analytics for decision-making. The trend is spearheaded by a startup called Hired Inc. that secured $40 million in funding this morning to promote its data-driven spin on traditional headhunting. The ...
DataGravity axes key staff as flash storage competition heats up
Organizations are buying more flash storage than ever before, but the fierce competition in the market is forcing some vendors to make difficult changes to their growth strategies. The latest victim of the squeeze is DataGravity Inc., which reportedly laid off a significant portion of its engineering team in the past few weeks. Former insider ...
What you missed in Big Data: Taming the Internet of Things
The industry effort to bring the vast amounts of machine-generated data coming off the connected universe under control received a significant boost last week after not one but two major vendors joined the fray. The first to jump aboard was Microsoft Corp., which launched a managed service for aggregating transmissions from the sensors and other ...
What you missed in Cloud: Value-added functionality
While other leading cloud providers like Amazon Inc. regularly undercut the competition to try and attract new users, Salesforce.com Inc. hopes to set itself apart by moving in the opposite direction of the price curve. Last week saw the customer relationship management giant introduce a new iteration of its platform that offers a host of ...
Flash startup Tegile slashes global headcount in pre-IPO cost cutting
Layoffs are a regular occurrence in the cutthroat world of enterprise technology, though the bearer of bad news is usually not a startup boasting triple-digit annual sales growth. Tegile Systems Inc. this week revealed that a sizable portion of its overseas staff has been terminated in what appears to be an attempt at deflecting the ...
IBM debuts new developer services for building data-driven apps
The pieces of IBM Corp.’s plan to woo developers came together this morning with the release of a major upgrade to its public cloud that brings four new services for automating how information is handled inside web applications. Headlining the rollout is a repackaged version of the managed database platform that the company obtained through ...
