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EMC buys stealthy flash competitor amid intensifying diversification efforts
Word broke this week that EMC Corp. has quietly bolstered its efforts to move beyond traditional disk arrays with the acquisition of a stealthy startup called Graphite Systems Inc. that is developing a high-performance entrant into the flash storage race. The transaction is the latest indicator of the growing urgency surrounding the diversification initiative. Stagnating ...
Peaxy raises $15 million to disrupt the data lake
Replacing departmentalized information silos with a centralized data lake is a great way to make a large organization’s records accessible to its users in theory, but tends to prove near impossible to implement in practice. That gap between need and availability is what Peaxy Inc. hopes to fill with the help of the $15 million ...
Talend switches its data integration platform to Apache Spark
The latest data integration provider to jump on the Apache Spark bandwagon is Talend Inc., which is rolling out a new version of its namesake platform this morning that leverages the speedy in-memory execution framework to accelerate data ingestion. It’s claiming that customers can achieve an immediate fivefold performance improvement by switching over. The company promises to ...
Microsoft launches a Mesos-powered container service
Better late than never. Eleven months after Amazon and five behind Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. is finally rolling out its own managed container platform to help developers run their microservices projects in the public cloud. The delay is the result of a strategic gamble that may just help set its value proposition apart from the ...
Juniper debuts cloud-based security service to shield the corporate network
Everybody is getting aboard the cloud bandwagon, even vendors that sell equipment for private data centers. The latest example is Juniper Networks Inc., which is rolling out a new managed security service this morning that promises to help customers prevent advanced malware from infiltrating their systems. The aptly-named Sky Advanced Threat Prevention engine quarantines downloads in ...
BlueTalon builds data security directly into Hadoop
The sheer amount of data stored in Hadoop clusters makes them a natural target for hackers, but organizations don’t have too many good options to achieve the level of security needed to rise up to the threat. BlueTalon Inc. hopes to change that with a new iteration of its policy enforcement engine that implements privacy ...
Origami Logic nabs $25 in funding to clear up the marketing data mess
There is such a thing as too much data in the enterprise, at least for the everyday marketers who find themselves trying to manually dig up specific metrics from the upwards of thousands that are generated as part of their organizations’ engagement efforts. That’s the challenge Origami Logic Inc. hopes to solve with the help ...
HashiCorp augments its open-source DevOps arsenal with two new tools
The DevOps world is getting a little more crowded this morning with the release of two additional automation tools from HashiCorp Inc., one of which is a successor to its hugely-popular Vagrant deployment automation tool that promises to drastically simplify code rollouts. It’s the same pitch that helped propel containers to developer stardom. But whereas ...
Kudu: How Cloudera wants to save Hadoop by killing it
The massive drop in memory prices that is leading Hadoop adopters to abandon the disk-oriented MapReduce has now finally caught up to the storage component of the framework as well with the introduction of an alternative from none other than Cloudera Inc., its prime distributor. The move signals the beginning of the end for the ...
Collibra nets $23 million to bring artificial intelligence to data governance
It’s not exactly the most exciting part of large-scale analytics projects, but managing data access is among the most essential. After all, making a file available to the appropriate stakeholders within an organization is the prerequisite to processing its contents, whether for the purposes of extracting business insights or finding potential privacy violations. That’s the challenge ...
