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Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition is part of bigger industrial Internet strategy
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp. is acquiring one of the fastest rising names on the business intelligence block as part of a strategic pivot into the connected universe. The Japanese technology giant has reportedly agreed to pay between $500 and $600 million for Pentaho Corp., which makes the deal the biggest exit in the category ...
Watch out, hackers! Facebook rallies web giants behind new threat-sharing network
Facebook has launched a new platform for companies to share information on security threats aimed at facilitating industry collaboration against hacking. The initiative is the latest in a string that the social networking juggernaut introduced over recent years to encourage cooperation on key technology trends. It all started in 2011 with the Open Compute Project, ...
Datadog makes first acquisition to expand its analytics reach
Datadog Inc., a rising star in the burgeoning cloud monitoring space, has bought out a fellow New York analytics startup to provide a broader view of infrastructure and applications. No financial terms were disclosed, but it’s safe to assume a substantial part of the capital for the purchase came from the $31 million funding round Datadog ...
SAP seeks 360° customer view with ‘hybris’ marketing platform
SAP SE is introducing a new “contextual marketing platform” from its e-commerce division that seeks to provide a comprehensive view of customers. The business intelligence giant claims that it’s in a unique position to deliver on that well-worn pitch thanks to the use of multiple internal and external data sources. The aptly-named hybris Marketing suite integrates ...
Smart-home devices riddled with security flaws, HP study finds
The increasingly sophisticated and powerful security systems emerging from the connected universe present a double-edged sword for the smart home, according to a new study from Hewlett-Packard on the risks of the technology. The results are alarming, to say the least. The hardware giant unleashed its cloud-based vulnerability testing service on 10 of the most ...
What you missed in Cloud: New frontiers for virtualization
The competition over enterprise cloud spending kicked into high gear last week on the virtualization front as VMware revealed a new version of its namesake hypervisor that promises to address some of the biggest pain points in managing off-premise infrastructure. Chief among them is distance. Moving virtual machines to a remote geographic location involves a ...
Cisco to let customers run competitors’ software on its flagship switches
Cisco Systems Inc. is adding support for a key software-defined networking standard to its flagship backbone switches as part of an effort to provide customers with more freedom in how they run their environments. The update underscores the broader shift to open standards, a trend that is slowly forcing incumbent vendors to change their proprietary ...
Actifio cloudifies data virtualization tech to keep storage costs down
Actifio Inc. is launching a new cloud-based implementation of its flagship data virtualization technology that offers to help companies protect their applications from outages more effectively. The service tackles a new side of the fundamental operational challenge that the startup has made its goal to address. Organizations suffer from a great deal of sprawl in ...
Iterable nets $1.2 million for holistic email marketing service
An emerging startup called Iterable Inc. has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from a group of prominent angel investors to bring email back to the marketing fore in the social media era. The capital will help fuel the development of its namesake service, which provides a command center for targeting online audiences. Iterable plugs ...
What you missed in Big Data: Governance (again) tops the industry’s agenda
The past week witnessed a number of major milestones in evolution of enterprise analytics across both the open-source and proprietary camps, which came together around the fundamental challenges of processing data at scale. Hortonworks Inc. led the charge with the launch of a new industry effort aimed at addressing the need to control the massive ...
