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Veradocs nabs $14 million to secure corporate data outside the firewall
The growing amount of corporate data moving outside the firewall to the cloud is making it more difficult than ever for CIOs to defend against security leaks, a challenge that Veradocs Inc. has taken upon itself to address once and for all. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with $14 million in funding to bring ...
Teradata and MapR ink sweeping Hadoop alliance
Teradata Corp. and MapR Technologies Inc. are joining forces to make their vision for Hadoop more appealing to organizations that are adopting the open source framework in pursuit of cost savings and better business insights. The collaboration builds on the existing integration between the firms’ respective platforms. Under the agreement, Teradata will expand its relationship ...
IBM touts collaboration platform as the reinvention of email
IBM is rolling out a new collaboration service that puts an analytic spin on the traditional email formula in a bid to help enterprise workers share information with peers more effectively. Hyped as a reinvention of email itself, the platform is the first fruit of the $100 million investment in user experience that the company ...
Facebook redefines data center design to support the next billion users
Facebook Inc. is marking the launch of its latest data center in the central Iowa town of Altoona by providing the public with a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the 140-megawatt facility, which implements a brand new network topography that replaces clusters with “pods” as the basic building block. The move to release ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hortonworks files for IPO and SAP gets vertical
No week passes without the data analytics space marking at least a handful of major milestones in its breakneck evolution, but this time around, it’s a truly historic occasion on the trend’s advance towards the enterprise. Hortonworks Inc. became the first Hadoop distributor to file for a public offering, beating Cloudera Inc. and MapR Technologies ...
What you missed in Cloud: Amazon raises the bar for friends and foes alike
Cloud computing inched another step forward at Amazon.com Inc.’s action-packed re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas last week with the introduction of several landmark new services. Leading the additions is Lambda, a sandbox aimed at allowing developers to easily write and deploy individual functions for handling specific tasks without getting bogged down in managing the ...
Cloudticity founder praises AWS’ compliance features | #reinvent
The spotlight in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner ecosystem is fixed on the software makers working to extend the capabilities of the platform, but professional service providers that help customers harness the Amazon cloud are also essential. Cloudticity LLC Founder Gerry Miller appeared on theCUBE at the retail giant’s recent re:Invent conference to share ...
Formation Data promises a more flexible approach to managing storage networks | #reinvent
The typical organization doesn’t maintain more than one data network, but when it comes to storage, there are often numerous disparate silos with different interfaces that are difficult to access and even harder to manage. Formation Data Systems Inc. CEO Mark Lewis returned to theCUBE at Amazon.com Inc.’s recent re:Invent 2014 summit to discuss how his ...
How Citrix fits into the hybrid cloud | #reinvent
Facilitating the seamless movement of workloads among on- and off-premise environments is only the first leg of the journey toward the hybrid cloud, and that creates an opportunity for vendors such as Citrix Systems Inc. to fill the gaps, according to Morgan Gerhart, the senior director of products for the desktop virtualization powerhouse’s cloud and ...
Unified snags theCUBE alumnus Shawn Douglass as CTO
Cloud-based marketing specialist Unified Inc. scored a major strategic victory this week after hiring long-time enterprise technologist Shawn Douglass to lead its product strategy. In his new role, the industry veteran will focus on leveling the playing field for traditional enterprises struggling to adapt the new paradigm of operations in the as-a-service era, a goal ...
