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DigitalOcean raises a humongous $83 million to take on AWS
Everybody loves an underdog, especially in the venture capital community. DigitalOcean Inc. has seized that sentiment once again to raise a massive $83 million in funding for its namesake public cloud, which climbed to the second spot on the list of the world’s largest infrastructure-as-a-service platforms over the last two years. That rapid ascent, remarkable even by the ...
HP infuses data smarts into enterprise backup
After a brief hiatus, the challenge of addressing data growth is back in the limelight thanks to the introduction of two new software solutions from Hewlett-Packard Co. meant to help organizations cut down on their storage costs. The launch takes aim at the so-called secondary sources that contain the bulk of the files on the ...
Kafka creators raise $24 million to move into stream processing
It looks like the already overcrowded stream processing camp of the Hadoop ecosystem is about to receive even more competition, and from one of its most important partners no less. Confluent Inc. has revealed the completion of a $24 million funding round this morning that will help augment its hugely popular messaging service with native ...
What you missed in Big Data: Networked insights
The public cloud is not the most intuitive place from which to track an on-premise network, but a growing number of monitoring startups are moving down that road in the name of high-level visibility, the latest of which exited stealth last week with $12 million in funding to help its spin on the concept stand out. ...
What you missed in Cloud: Integrated experiences
Nearly a decade after cloud computing first reared its head in the enterprise, players like Microsoft Corp. are seeing demand for their services grow as fast as ever, but so is the competition. That is driving an industry-wide race for new ways to differentiate that turned to integrations last week in a sign of the ...
Salesforce brings Desk.com into the embedded productivity era
Only days after introducing the ability for enterprises to embed its popular support delivery service into their mobile applications, Saleforce.com Inc. hopes to extend the same benefits to customers of the slimmed-down edition for small- and medium-sized businesses. Except, that is, the other way around. The update to Desk.com brings the option to embed partner-developed ...
PubNub nets $20 million for its cloud-based data distribution service
In addition to filtering, analyzing, visualizing and sharing it, organizations nowadays also require – perhaps above all else – the ability to move their data to where it needs to be in a timely manner, a challenge that PubNub Inc. has made a respectable business out of addressing. And that business is now set to ...
Elastic puts its open-source Big Data search engine in the cloud
The Netherlands’ Elastic BV is ticking another item off the fairly narrow list of ways to monetize open-source software with the launch of new hosted implementations of its hugely popular free search engine for unstructured data that offer a simpler alternative to manual deployment. The launch couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Demand ...
Microsoft and rivals join forces in new R statistical analytics consortium
A week after the opposing camps of the containerization movement set aside their differences to agree upon a common competitive standard, the much bigger and better-known members of the R ecosystem are repeating history with the establishment of a new joint consortium to help drive the adoption of the statistical programming language. R is already in use ...
Broadening horizons? Oracle gets into web development to court SMBs
Amid faltering sales across its core traditional businesses, Oracle Corp. is moving aggressively to seize the momentum of its cloud business, the only major source of growth in an otherwise bleak revenue outlook, with new services. But the latest addition to the roster still comes as something of a surprise even in light of its ...
