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Sweeping layoffs to hit VMware amid Dell-EMC merger worries
Word has leaked that VMware Inc. plans to lay off as many as 900 employees this week, or about five percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to trim operations. The move is reportedly timed to coincide with its third quarter earnings call on Tuesday, which will be closely watched by a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop is the star of the show
After a brief hiatus, Hadoop returned to the center of attention last week when private equity giant IVP and three other investors injected $30 million into the coffers of Qubole Inc. to aid its mission of simplifying the data crunching framework. The startup’s namesake service provides a graphical interface that enables business users to manipulate ...
What you missed in Cloud: Bold moves
When Amazon Inc. enters a new market, prices almost always start falling, but usually not with nearly the same abruptness that the online security space experienced last week in the wake of the latest addition to its cloud arsenal. Jeff Bezos’ company now offers free digital certificates for every website and application running on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, ...
Splice Machine bags $9M for its Hadoop-based RDBMS
Talk about old meets new. Splice Machine Inc. raised $9 million from investors this week to fund the development of additional features for its relational database, which follows the tried-and-true formula of structured record management with one notable exception: Information kept inside is not stored on some legacy storage engine originally created decades ago, but ...
Cloudera Director 2.0 takes aim at off-premise Hadoop clusters
Running Hadoop outside the firewall is set to become much easier for customers of Cloudera Inc. thanks to a new iteration of its management automation framework that debuted this week. The release brings a hands-off provisioning feature that can spin up the hardware resources needed for a particular query and deallocate the infrastructure after the ...
Docker joins the unikernel bandwagon with new acquisition
Another year, another new trend entering the industry agenda. Docker Inc. set the wheels in motion this morning with the acquisition of Unikernel Systems Ltd, a U.K.-based startup founded by the original creators of the Xen hypervisor. Its namesake technology holds the potential to kick up the modularization of cloud services several notches. The unikernel is ...
Atlassian enhances its GitHub alternative to support distributed development teams
Atlassian Corp. plc has been at hard at work since hitting the stock exchange in December. The developer productivity powerhouse introduced a new iteration of its help desk software last week that promises to noticeably streamline technical support, and now it’s upping the ante on the code management front with the release of three major ...
Qubole secures $30 million to grow its Hadoop-as-a-service
As the venture capital community’s enthusiasm for cloud computing and analytics reaches new heights, the startups at the intersection of the two trends are reaping the rewards. The newest beneficiary is Qubole Inc., which raised $30 million in funding from private equity giant IVP and three existing backers this morning to widen the adoption of its ...
Intel builds powerful security into newest Core vPro processors
While business users may be spending a growing portion of their time on mobile devices, the desktop is still the workhorse of the modern office, and requires the security to match. Intel Corp. hopes to make it easier for organizations to maintain the necessary level of protection with the new generation of its Core vPro ...
Instart lands $45M to take its analytics-driven CDN global
Like so many other parts of the enterprise technology market, the content delivery segment is also experiencing a boom in startups seeking to change the competitive status quo. Three months after Teridion Ltd. existed stealth with $20 million in funding and a promise to make web services load up to 20 times faster than they do ...
