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What you missed in Cloud: Developers, developers, developers
The cloud spotlight returned to the development community last week as the major providers expanded their coding arsenals. Pivotal Software Inc. fired the opening round with the introduction of a landmark update to its middleware stack aimed at simplifying the creation of hybrid applications. The release extends the solution, a commercial version of the open-source ...
SDN evolution: Networking bigwigs unite to move routing up the stack
The networking industry is banding together once again to create an open-source routing framework envisioned as the linchpin for the software-defined environments of tomorrow. The initiative completes the last missing piece of an effort to standardize the paradigm that started two years ago with the same players. Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM established the OpenDaylight ...
ProsperWorks lands $7.5 million to inject its CRM magic into Google Apps
The market for customer relationship management (CRM) in the cloud got a little more interesting today as ProsperWorks Inc. announced that it has raised $7.5 million to boost its CRM technology that integrates tightly with Google’s suite of productivity apps. ProsperWorks seeks to eliminate the need for users to dig up information about contacts and manually ...
What you missed in Big Data: Tapping the connected universe
The analytics discussion shifted from the data coming off connected devices to the data stored inside those devices last week after Realm Inc. raised $20 million in a second round of funding for its embedded object store. The landmark investment tops off nine months of remarkable growth. That short period has seen the startup’s lightweight ...
Survey says Hadoop isn’t replacing data warehouses
There is a reason why Hadoop has become the center of the analytics discussion. The framework can process more kinds of information and faster than traditional data warehouses at a fraction of the cost, yet a new study reveals that organizations are in no rush to switch. Nearly two=thirds of the 319 decision-makers that Snowflake ...
Here’s how Canonical plans to become a force in network virtualization
Canonical Ltd. is moving into network virtualization through a broad alliance with Ericsson aimed at extending the reach of its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The move is the latest milestone in a multi-pronged strategic expansion that has ramped up considerably over recent months. The ambitious push most recently took Canonical into the connected universe with ...
NoSQL pioneer’s startup takes aim at scalable software-defined storage
There is no shortage of platforms promising to help organizations address the rapid growth in data volumes more efficiently, but Hedvig Inc. believes that it has a better idea. The startup roared out of stealth this week to try to carve out its own slice of the software-defined storage action. The launch culminates three years ...
ProtectWise exits stealth to throw more data at the network security problem
After nearly two years of work, ProtectWise Inc. is finally moving into the public light with a new cloud-based service that promises to address one of the greatest operational challenges for the modern enterprise: Understanding the corporate network. Organizations have no shortage of monitoring software to choose from nowadays, but the breadth of their environments ...
Localytics gets $35 million in SAP-led funding to inject more data into mobile apps
The analytics bandwagon arrived at the mobile universe this week after Localytics Inc. closed a $35 million investment from venture capitalists to help drive the adoption of its data-driven targeting service. The funding follows a record year that saw revenue more than double, according to the company. That boost came on the back of an ...
EMC draws on its federation for integrated Big Data framework
EMC is kicking off the week with the introduction of a reference architecture for Big Data analytics that combines disparate components from its federation of subsidiaries into an integrated data lake. The platform is the culmination of a controversial strategy that has come under threat recently. Activist investor Elliott Management, which owns a stake of just ...
