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Dataminr nets a massive $130 million for Twitter-powered global change tracker
Marketers aren’t the only ones looking to keep track of what’s happening in the social sphere. A group of Wall Street heavyweights joined the fray this week after pouring $130 million into Dataminr Inc. to boost its efforts to help identify the shifting sharing patterns that often prelude major events around the world. Stock fluctuations ...
Birst lands another $65 million to bring business intelligence back into the spotlight
Birst Inc. has taken advantage of the renewed interest around business intelligence in the investment community as of the late to secure another $65 million on its journey to an eventual public offering. But there is still a long and precocious road ahead to the stock exchange. The freshly funded software-as-a-service provider is competing not ...
What you missed in Big Data: It’s raining metrics
The competition in the analytics ecosystem took a new turn to the public cloud last week after Looker Data Sciences Inc. raised $30 million in funding from a group of prominent investors for its business intelligence service. The capital infusion is meant to help seize accelerating demand in the enterprise. The startup has signed up ...
EMC at a crossroads: The precarious path ahead | #CubeConversations
There have been vocal calls from the investment community recently for EMC to break up its federation of subsidiaries, a move that Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman says many customers are also quietly hoping will take place. But the world’s top enterprise storage vendor has a different plan for addressing the generational changes taking place in ...
What you need to know about Facebook’s open hardware efforts
Facebook usually only enters the IT discussion in the context of corporate firewall policies, but last week things took a different turn after the internal innovations at the foundation of its digital empire hit the public domain. The contribution is the latest milestone in an effort tracing back to the dawn of hyperscale computing. An ...
What you missed in Cloud: Jeff Bezos versus the world
The collective industry effort to displace Amazon from its dominant position in the public cloud intensified last week as rivals expanded the competition over enterprise spending to more workloads. Google led the charge with the launch of a dedicated service for storing archival data. Most of the mundane historical information that organizations stash away for ...
Docker acquires second startup in a week to lure developers
Barely a week after its latest acquisition, Docker Inc. has absorbed yet another startup to bolster its ranks and technology arsenal. The deal shifts the focus back to the developers at the center of the containerization movement. The Ontario-based Kitematic has created an open-source sandbox for running Docker instances, which only work with Linux out ...
VCE has software-defined comeback to hyper-converged challengers
After more than five years of sticking to the same recipe, VCE is finally introducing a new series of converged appliances that will provide the ability to customize the individual building blocks for specific requirements. The launch marks a major evolutionary leap from its current hardware. The tried-and-tested Vblocks have generated more than a billion ...
Facebook donates its latest hardware designs to the Open Compute Project
Facebook Inc. is stepping up efforts to bring hyperscale efficiency into the enterprise with the release of blueprints for two internally developed systems and the related management software to the Open Compute Project. The launch represents its most significant contribution since starting the initiative in 2011. The undertaking has since garnered the support of companies ...
SimpliVity hits $1B valuation on massive $175M infusion
SimpliVity Inc. has landed a massive $175 million in funding from a group of investors that includes one of its top customers to help sustain growth amid increasing competition from other converged infrastructure providers. The deal tops off a record year that saw demand for its platform grow fivefold. The OmniCube combines servers and storage ...
