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Tegile bags a massive $70 million in funding to boost hybrid arrays
Tegile Systems Inc. is leveling the playing field in the hyper-competitive world of hybrid storage arrays with the completion of a landmark $70 million funding round from over a half dozen new and existing investors. The capital infusion brings its balance sheet much more up to par with that of its fastest-growing rivals. With a ...
MuleSoft moves up the stack with new data capabilities for its API management platform
Hot on the heels of raising $128 million in a record round of funding, MuleSoft Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to its cloud connectivity platform that promises to help organizations make more out of the data coming off the new services they’re hooking up to their networks. The launch represents a new strategy ...
IBM: Data theft is costing companies a fortune
The flurry of large-scale breaches that struck top retailers and banks in 2014 finally helped corporate decision-makers internalize what security professionals has been saying for years: hackers are not only becoming more aggressive but also more sophisticated. Concrete data on the trend, however, has been scarce – until now. A new survey of 350 recently ...
Basho combines its databases with open-source tech into an analytic bundle
The intensifying competition in the NoSQL world is driving Basho Technologies Inc. to move up the value chain with a new platform promising to provide a unified environment for storing and processing the growing amounts of unstructured data entering the corporate network. It’s the latest realization of the tried and true one-shop-stop approach to differentiation ...
HP’s troubled services division gears up for multi-billion dollar cuts
While top software-as-a-service providers are experiencing record growth on the back of increasing cloud demand, more traditional players such as HP that are still in the process of adapting to the new way of delivering technology capabilities have been caught somewhat unprepared. That is now driving the hardware giant to expedite its transition with a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hybrid analytics
Last week saw the analytics movement grow even more closely entwined with the cloud thanks to new updates that promise to help organizations take advantage of the economies offered by the as-a-service model to accommodate their growing information troves. VMware Inc. found itself in the center of it all after word leaked of internal plans ...
Rubrik scores $41 million from Greylock and friends for converged data protection
Barely two months after exiting stealth with $10 million in freshly raised venture capital, Rubrik Inc. has secured another funding round more than four times that size to aid its mission of eliminating the need for backup software. And the team is finally revealing how it plans to go about accomplishing that ambitious goal. The ...
Rumor: Google is making a move for the Internet of Things
The next entrant into the world of embedded operating systems could emerge as none other than Google, according to multiple reports ahead of its annual developer conference next week. In the likelihood that the rumors prove true, that would represent a radical evolution of its current mobile strategy, if not a particularly surprising one. The ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack evolution
The race to cloud dominance took a detour to Vancouver this week for the sixth bi-annual OpenStack Summit, where vendors from around the ecosystem showed off their latest wares to try and woo the enterprise technology buyers in attendance. The spotlight was divided among three main groups led by the guests of honor: the distributors. Drawing ...
Why is this Ashton Kutcher-backed SQL startup taking a shot at geospatial data?
MemSQL Inc., which is probably the only high-profile database startup that can boast of an active A-lister among its investors, has pulled the curtains back on a new version of its namesake in-memory store that is hailed as the most significant iteration yet. The addition earning the release that lofty designation is the ability to ...
