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What you missed in Cloud: Productivity through integration
The public cloud became a much more productive place for enterprise workers last week thanks a series of major updates on the collaboration front, starting with Google Inc.’s introduction of a new extension that offers to plug its file sharing service into Office 365. The integration is the competitive equivalent of a trojan horse. The search ...
Palantir raises $450 million on massive $20 billion valuation
It may not be the most typical tech unicorn, but Palantir Technologies Inc. is now one of the most valuable thanks to a newly closed $450 million funding round that reportedly puts its net worth at $20 billion. That marks a tremendous milestone not only for the secretive outfit and its investors but the analytics ...
Google will give you 100 PETABYTES of free nearline storage to use its cloud platform
The public cloud is not new to price competition, but the latest offer from Google may just take the cake. Accompanying the launch of its ultra-low-cost cold nearline service into general availability this morning is a special promotion that will enable organizations to store up to 100 petabytes of their data in the hosted archive ...
IBM snaps up data automation startup Compose to bolster its developer cloud
Developers will soon have another strong reason to build their services on IBM Corp.’s public thanks to its newly announced acquisition of a startup called called Composite Inc. that has carved out a respectable niche for itself automating the deployment of modern databases. While that’s only one of the many priorities in a software project, it’s ...
Akana adds deep analytics to its API management platform
While the industry has its attention turned to the new-generation API management providers vying to fill the vacuum created by the slow reaction of their traditional rivals to the rise of cloud services and mobile devices, one member of the old guard is plotting a comeback that moved a major step forward today. Akana Inc. has ...
Continuum Analytics scores $24 million to put Python on the Big Data map
Chances are that if programming is brought into an analytics discussion nowadays, the first language to come up will be R, the open-source statistical processing framework backed by Microsoft Corp. and decades of use in the academia. But a startup called Continuum Analytics Inc. has now armed itself with $24 million in funding to try ...
EMC earnings hold steady in second quarter as VMware misses growth forecast
Much to the relief of shareholders wary of the waning demand for its traditional disk arrays, EMC Corp. didn’t deliver any major surprises in its second quarter earnings report this morning. Sales climbed an expected two percent – or more than six when adjusted for the stronger dollar – year-over-year to a round $6 billion. That ...
Netezza vets launch their new data warehousing startup from stealth with $20 million in funding
The analytics ecosystem became a little more crowded today after a startup called Cazena Inc. exited stealth with $20 million in funding and a new service that promises to help organizations harness their data cheaper and more effectively than the competition. It’s the same pitch everybody else is touting, but the value proposition goes much ...
Google gives Kubernetes its own foundation in celebration of 1.0 release
A few weeks after the movers and shakers of the container movement banded together to form a consortium meant to help establish common standards for the fast-growing technology, the same companies are teaming up again under the banner of Google Inc. to establish another foundation with an even more ambitious goal: drive adoption among traditional ...
Lucidworks brings its open-core enterprise search engine to Apache Spark
The latest player to jump aboard the Apache Spark bandwagon is bound to turn some heads in the upstream ecosystem. Lucidworks Inc. has added integration with the speedy data crunching framework in the new version of its flagship enterprise search engine that debuted this morning as part of an effort to catch up with the changing requirements of ...
