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Couchbase 4.1 touts faster SQL queries against unstructured data
Just over two months after completing the much-touted initial rollout of SQL support for its popular document store, Couchbase Inc. is releasing yet another major update aimed at tying up the loose ends left over from the launch. As of today, the homegrown N1QL structured query language is fully functional, complete with the ability to ...
IBM’s upcoming open-source runtime project will shake up the developer ecosystem
A year after Microsoft Corp. released its popular .NET application framework under a free license to enable vendor-agnostic use cases, IBM Corp. is preparing to open-source a homegrown development technology of own that holds the potential to make an even bigger impact on the software world. OMR is a toolkit that implements the lessons the ...
Dell-EMC merger moves a crucial step closer to completion
The leaderships of Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. are now officially cleared to start making the preparations for the companies’ scheduled merger next year following the expiration of the so-called “go shop period” that kicked into effect after the announcement of the deal in October. Such pauses are frequently made ahead of high-value corporate acquisitions to ...
What you missed in Big Data: Startups tackle ETL
Barely a few days go by without some ambitious startup popping up to try and tackle one of the numerous challenges holding back large-scale analytics in the enterprise, and last week was no exception. Y Combinator graduate Etleap came out of stealth mode with a new service for moving records from various on-premise systems and cloud ...
What you missed in Cloud: Reining in off-premise data
In what has become an increasingly frequent occurrence over recent months, data management once again emerged as the top priority for the cloud ecosystem last week. It was Google Inc. that put the topic on the agenda with the release of a landmark update to its managed MySQL service that promises to allow for relational records ...
German DevOps startup Seerene raises $5 million for its “Software Maps”
While the need to address the growing reliance on data among knowledge workers has added a great deal of complexity to corporate software projects, analytics also hold the key to solving many of the more fundamental issues that often hold back development work in the enterprise. At least according to Seerene GmbH, which raised $5 ...
Google pulls a Microsoft with new Cloud CDN service
The four content delivery networks that teamed up with Google Inc. earlier this year to provide low-cost traffic optimization for its public cloud probably won’t be too happy to hear about the new homegrown caching service that the search giant started rolling out this week. Much like Windows tablet manufacturers after the launch of Microsoft ...
Factual, the “neutral data company” powering Apple Maps, raises $35M
Thomas Jefferson wasn’t thinking about the modern analytics market when he coined the phrase “commerce with all, alliance with none”, but the approach has proven remarkably effective for Factual Inc., a startup that raised $35 million in funding today to take its growth strategy to the next level. More engineers will be brought aboard and ...
Analytics juggernaut Palantir raises another $129M on $20B-plus valuation
Even among the unicorns of Silicon Valley, Palantir Technologies Inc. stands out. The CIA-backed analytics juggernaut has bumped its total external funding past the $1.8 billion mark after securing an additional $129 million through a fresh capital infusion that was revealed in an SEC filing this week. The investment marks the latest installation of a ...
Gradle raises $4.2 million to bring build automation into the DevOps discussion
For a company that saw its software downloaded over nine million times since the beginning of the year, Gradle Inc. has managed to keep an impressively low profile. But that is about to change in the wake of a newly announced $4.2 investment from True Ventures and Data Collective that will enable the startup kick ...
