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Investors pump $85 million into Code42 to fill the cloud storage gap
Backup is one of the main use cases for cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Box, but the big providers are focusing most of their competitive efforts elsewhere in areas like collaboration, a dynamic that has noticeably affected the breadth of their data protection capabilities. Code42 Software Inc. hopes to exploit that Achilles hill ...
Robin Systems raises $22 million to supercharge Spark clusters
The need for CIOs to support fast-growing data volumes with budgets that aren’t growing nearly as fast has spurred a renewed focus on efficiency among analytics vendors, some of which are going as low as the chip level in search of ways to help customers squeeze more out of their hardware. But that effort largely ...
Israel’s Morphisec bags $7 million pull the rug from under hackers’ feet
The prerequisite to targeting a system or an application is finding a suitable attack vector, which will become a lot harder for hackers if Morphisec Information Security Ltd. has its way. The Israeli startup announced the completion of a $7 million round this morning meant that will help spread its namesake memory randomization technology to more ...
HP launches its very own open-source SDN stack
The already hyper-competitive network operating system market is growing even more crowded this morning with the launch of a new open-source entrant from Hewlett-Packard Co. that takes aim at the proprietary platforms that have dominated the enterprise for the last few decades. And in particular, Cisco Systems Inc.’s widely-used IOS. HP has been trying to ...
What you missed in Big Data: Shared goals
The analytics ecosystem saw a welcome change of pace last week when IBM Corp. and Box Inc. turned the limelight to collaboration with the introduction of the first fruits of the strategic alliance they announced earlier this year. The new services employ the former’s analytics technology to make it easier to manage business information stored ...
What you missed in Cloud: The search wars are back
Google Inc. may have won the consumer front in the search wars, but the fight is still raging over at the public cloud, where its rivals are competing over who can best help enterprises map out the growing amounts of data they store beyond the firewall. Microsoft Corp. launched the most recent skirmish last week with ...
15 million consumers compromised in Experian breach
The financial service industry has become the latest victim of this year’s surge in attacks against corporate targets after Experian plc saw hackers steal personal information belonging to 15 million Americans from its network last month. The plunder includes names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers along with detailed financial activity records. The massive ...
IBM brings its analytics smarts to Box
Barely four months after teaming up to help organizations make more out of the growing amounts of information they store in the public cloud, IBM Corp. and Box Inc. are releasing a new set of analytics capabilities to augment the latter’s online file locker. The launch is the latest milestone in an aggressive data management ...
Syncsort hooks up its data integration service to Kafka and Spark
Syncsort Inc. hopes to bring the entry barrier to performing real-time analytics down a notch with a new iteration of its flagship data integration software that can hook up to an organization’s stream processing pipelines to simplify the handling of the information flowing inside. Facilitating that is newly added integration with Apache Kafka. The open-source ...
Teridion exists stealth to make a x20 faster Internet
While organizations keep laying down bigger and bigger network cables to support their growing bandwidth requirements, a startup called Teridion Technologies Ltd. has found a way to make connections up to 20 times faster without so much as replacing a router. And it’s existing stealth with $20 million in funding this morning to bring the ...