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What you missed in Big Data: Evolving positions
The competitive roster of the analytics world was reshuffled once again last week after Splunk Inc. splashed $190 million on a relatively low-key machine learning specialist called Caspida Inc. in its largest acquisition to date. The deal will help make its log management platform better-equipped to catch hackers on the corporate network, already one of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Shifting competition
Last week was an especially busy one in the cloud, with not one but two of the industry’s leading infrastructure-as-a-service providers debuting new services to reach more parts of the enterprise. The opening shot, as usual, came from Amazon Inc., which doubled down on developers with the launch of several project management capabilities into general ...
Azure Data Catalog is a crowdsourced discovery service for business analysts
Microsoft Corp. has clearly perfected the art of playing catch-up with Amazon Inc. in the public cloud over the last few years. Less than 24 hours after its arch-nemesis debuted two new services for developers, the software powerhouse is firing back with the announcement of a fully managed discovery engine aimed at another key constituency in ...
AWS launches Device Farm and API Gateway to attract mobile developers
Vendors usually avoid introducing new products in the middle of the fiscal year when technology budgets are already committed to other solutions, but then Amazon Inc. is not known for following competitive conventions. The cloud-turned-retail giant pulled another surprise from its sleeve this morning in the form of two new services meant to help make ...
Mirantis debuts hyperconverged OpenStack appliance
OpenStack marked another milestone in its breakneck evolution this week after the introduction of a new hyperconverged appliance from Mirantis Inc. that comes pre-integrated with its commercial distribution. The launch is aimed at extending the appeal of the platform to the majority of organizations that lack the will and resources to cobble together an implementation from scratch. ...
IBM lands massive $180 million cloud deal with Columbia Pipeline
In a much needed victory, IBM Corp. has landed a massive nine-figure contract to help Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. upgrade its infrastructure and internal employee support operations over the next five years to take advantage of the new trends in the data center. That encompasses all the most important elements of the technology stalwart’s growth strategy, ...
European code collaboration startup bags $1.5 million to overthrow GitHub
While the typical enterprise startup is lucky to attract a handful of users to help bolster its funding pitch before securing an initial seed investment, GitLab B.V. boasts of having signed up more than 100,000. And the fast-rising GitHub competitor is now announcing the completion of a $1.5 million round from early-stage backers to take its ...
Teradata taps Cloudera to power next-gen Hadoop appliance
The latest iteration of Teradata Corp.’s Hadoop appliance is making its official debut this morning with several major surprises, the biggest of which is the landmark addition of support for Cloudera Inc.’s popular distribution of the analytics framework. The update is the latest in the company’s efforts to diversify beyond its traditional data warehousing business. ...
Security behemoth Avast targets the enterprise with BYOD acquisition
Another week, another top consumer security provider making a move for the enterprise. Avast Software s.r.o., the maker of the world’s single most widely-used antivirus software, has acquired an emerging mobile service delivery startup for an undisclosed amount this morning in a renewed push into the corporate network. The San Mateo-based Remotium Inc.’s claim to ...
HashiCorp launches its open-core DevOps toolchain into general availability
The one-stop-shop value proposition has been around as long as the data center itself, but few vendors are able to deliver upon the promise nowadays due to the sheer scope of work involved in delivering applications at scale. One of the few exceptions to the rule is HashiCorp Inc., which officially launched its first commercial ...
