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Apprenda nabs $16 million to accelerate private PaaS
Apprenda announced on Wednesday that it has received $16 million in a series C financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics. Existing investors Ignition Partners and New Enterprise Associates also participated, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to $31 million. Founded in 2007, Apprenda offers a specialized platform-as-a-service solution that can be deployed in the cloud ...
Cisco diversifies as CEO reassures investors of comeback
A day after Cisco chief exec John Chambers promised shareholders that his firm will overcome slow sales by pursuing new markets, the networking vendor pulled the curtains back on a set of new solutions for reducing data center energy costs. Cisco claims that IT power consumption is “the last and largest unmanaged business expense,” accounting ...
MapR gears up for IPO with latest executive hire
It appears that MapR is laying down the groundwork for an initial public offering. The San Jose, Calif-based Hadoop distributor named Dan Alter as its first chief financial officer on Wednesday, signaling that it wants in on the Big Data gold rush sweeping through Wall Street. Alter brings much-needed financial experience to the company, having ...
DDN whips out “extreme” storage appliances
DataDirect Networks is pushing ahead of the competition with two new high-performance storage systems that it pegs as the industry’s fastest Big Data appliances. The product family deliver “extreme performance” to help customers consolidate their IT infrastructure and keep up with the rapid growth in unstructured information. The SFA12KX uses the latest generation Intel Ivy ...
HP and Salesforce team for dedicated SaaS
Hewlett-Packard and Salesforce are going after the enterprise in a joint push to make cloud services operationally viable for mission-critical workloads that require high level security and transparency. The pair are rolling out a solution called Salesforce Superpod, a dedicated instance in the Salesforce multi-tenant cloud that runs on converged infrastructure supplied by HP. The ...
SimpliVity raises a massive $58M for hyperconverged infrastructure
Just over a year after closing its second funding round, SimpliVity has raised another $58 million in Series C financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DFJ Growth. New investors Meritech Capital Partners and Swisscom Ventures also participated in the round, along with existing backers Accel Partners and Charles River Ventures. Founded in 2009, ...
VMware virtualization exec hops over to OpenDaylight
Software-defined networking is picking up considerable steam as open source technologies take hold in the enterprise, but fragmentation is proving to be a stumbling block for vendors seeking to catch up on the market. Not to be left in the dust, the network industry’s largest vendors have put their weight behind the Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight ...
IBM teams with NVIDIA to bring enterprise data centers up to par with supercomputers
IBM and chipmaker NVIDIA have joined forces to push the data center envelope with “supercharged” servers that feature the secret sauce behind how Watson processes information faster than any human. The pair plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs with the chips powering IBM’s Power line of enterprise servers to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as business ...
IBM doubles down security with Fiberlink acquisition, aggressive academic partnering
IBM is continuing its acquisition streak with the purchase of Fiberlink Communications, a Philadelphia-based software company that develops mobile device management and security solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Fiberlink is best known for its MaaS360 platform, a cloud-based service that is used by banks, healthcare providers, and manufacturers worldwide to safely connect employee-owned devices ...
Syncsort CEO on making the jump from the mainframe to Hadoop | #re:Invent2013
Hadoop presents an attractive value proposition for storing and processing large volumes of unstructured information, but it lacks certain enterprise features and requires specialized talent that is inaccessible to all but the wealthiest organizations. Companies that do not fall under this category face the added challenge of making their siloed data available to HDFS, a ...
