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Atlassian seeks to raise $250M in biggest-ever Australian tech IPO
The burgeoning Australian tech scene will soon have another representative on the U.S. stock market according to a newly published SEC filing that confirms Atlassian Pty Ltd.’s long-rumored plans for a public offering. The 13-year-old company hopes to raise as much as $250 million from public investors through the NASDAQ Global Market exchange to help ...
EMC reimagines Isilon NAS for the software-defined storage era
Customers should be relieved to discover that EMC Corp.’s looming merger with Dell Inc. isn’t distracting the leadership team from product development, at least not for the time being. The company is pulling back the curtains on a new iteration of the software powering its Isilon series of network-attached storage arrays today that has been reworked ...
VictorOps raises $10 million to take the hassle out of DevOps
Despite some recent consolidation, the IT monitoring segment remains among the most crowded in the entire enterprise technology world. Numerous providers from big names like New Relic Inc. to emerging startups such as Ruxit Inc. and BigPanda Inc. offer to use the vast amounts of data coming off corporate infrastructure in order to automatically alert of operational problems. ...
Microsoft buys Secure Islands for reported $150 million to bolster hybrid cloud strategy
Microsoft Corp. is continuing its shopping spree in Israel with the acquisition of Secure Islands Ltd., a data governance provider that helps organizations control who can access their sensitive business documents and under what conditions. The outfit counts itself among the biggest beneficiaries of the rapid increase in the amount of corporate information moving outside ...
Sysdig extends its container monitoring service to Google’s Kubernetes
Out of all the different sub-ecosystems that have evolved around Docker, perhaps none is as active as the one where Sysdig Inc. is competing. Monitoring vendors both large and small are vying to fill the void left by legacy solutions that were not designed for containerized workloads with modernized alternatives specially adapted to the lightweight ...
What you missed in Big Data: Understanding the consumer
Despite the rapid growth in the amount of data generated online, accurate customer information remains a rare commodity that can only be obtained from a limited number of sources, which have become competitive flashpoints for the analytics ecosystem. The fight erupted once again last week after Boomtrain Inc. updated its content targeting service to make use ...
What you missed in Cloud: Redefining the social enterprise
The cloud ecosystem broke from its usual fixation on developers and business analysts last week to give social marketers their long-deserved share of the limelight. Salesforce.com Inc. provided the initial push with the release of a major update to its widely-used customer targeting platform that introduces the ability for organizations harness an important but often ...
H2O lands $20 million to drive its open-source data science platform
The venture capital train cruising around the analytics ecosystem made its latest stop in the machine learning space to unload $20 million on H20.ai Inc., the startup behind the open-source algorithm development platform of the same name. The funding tops off a record year that saw downloads of the software more than triple from the ...
New Relic buys Digg co-founder’s DevOps startup to move down the cloud stack
The cutthroat cloud monitoring segment became a little less crowded this week after New Relic Inc. announced the acquisition of Opsmatic Inc., a startup that offers to provide operations teams with better visibility into their off-premise infrastructure, for an undisclosed amount. What helped set its service apart from the dozens of others promising to deliver ...
Dropbox Enterprise takes aim at the Fortune 500 crowd
Nearly a decade after launching, Dropbox Inc. is finally introducing the ability for organizations to prevent employees from tying their accounts to unprotected personnel email addresses. The addition is part of a brand new feature set that aims to make its historically consumer-focused file sharing platform more attractive for business users who have a higher chance of ...
