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Pivotal supercharges its Big Data Suite with Quickstep acquisition
While the analytics community has its attention turned away towards Hadoop Summit 2015, Pivotal Software Inc. is acquiring a little-known startup called Quickstep Technologies, LLC in a small but strategic deal that could provide its relational database with a much-needed needed performance edge. That’s thanks to a unique technology that the team originally developed at ...
Rancher Labs bags $10 million for its jack-of-all-trades container platform
The answer to the fragmentation of the container ecosystem may have finally arrived from Rancher Labs Inc., which raised $10 million in funding this morning to combine operational features currently scattered among numerous different projects into a unified platform. At the center of its efforts is a homegrown Linux flavor orders of magnitude smaller than ...
Nutanix debuts new hyper-converged management stack with homegrown hypervisor | #NextConf
Moving up the stack is one of the most tried-and-true strategies for standing out from the intense competitive in the data center, but Nutanix Inc. is bringing a whole new meaning to the term with the latest iteration of the software powering its popular appliances. The upgrade, which is being introduced as the company’s Nutanix ...
AppFormix launches out of stealth to solve containers’ noisy neighbor problem
Another week, another new startup jumping aboard the container ship. AppFormix Inc. is launching out of stealth this morning with a new solution that takes aim at one of the biggest obstacles standing the way of the lightweight virtualization format from achieving mainstream acceptance: orchestration. Balancing the often overlapping operational requirements of different services is a ...
A niche is reborn as JethroData raises $8.1 million for SQL-on-Hadoop engine
The days when SQL was one of the main flash points in the Hadoop ecosystem are long gone, with every major distributor now offering its own implementation in one form or another. But a startup called JethroData Ltd. now hopes to bring structured queries back to the forefront with the help of $8.1 million in ...
Arcadia exits stealth with $11.5 million for Hadoop-based BI platform
The Hadoop ecosystem is growing even more crowded today with the launch of a new startup called Arcadia Data Inc. that hopes to help business analysts become more productive in how they analyze their vast troves of unstructured information. Its plan for achieving that goal revolves around a homegrown business intelligence platform that runs directly ...
Menlo Security exits stealth with $25 million to eliminate infected emails
Menlo Security Inc. has come up with a unique way to set itself apart from the scores of other startups promising to help companies defend themselves against hackers that may block one of the most widely-abused attack vectors in the enterprise once and for all. Its service, which launched this morning, allows workers to click even ...
What you missed in Big Data: Democratized machine learning
The past week saw the analytics movement move yet closer towards its goal of making the power of data ubiquitous the enterprise on the back of major new advances in the startup and open-source worlds. But it’s the former that set the wheels in motion after Nervana Systems Inc. raised $20.5 million in funding for ...
What you missed in Cloud: Secure interoperability
The hybrid cloud returned to the center of attention this week after the OpenStack movement’s efforts to establish a common operating paradigm across on- and off-premise infrastructure marked its latest victory with the addition of a key international provider to the fray. Canada’s Ormuco Inc. is now officially the newest operator with a managed implementation of ...
HP’s new open-source development framework heralds a major shift
Between the new storage systems and management software announced at its annual customer conference this week, Hewlett-Packard sneaked in a small present for developers that promises to take some of the work out of building complex corporate applications. But what the framework perhaps lacks in disruptive potential it more than makes up for in strategic ...
