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CloudPhysics Accelerates Data-Driven Cloud Management with New Funding
CloudPhysics announced Tuesday morning that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and existing investors. The startup will use the new capital to boost marketing and accelerate the development of its flagship offering, a data-driven operations management tool for virtualized environments that hit general availability this week. ...
FreshBooks Launches Android App
FreshBooks is bringing accounting data to Android with a new application for mobile professionals. The free tool rounds out the company’s existing lineup of cloud services and iOS apps, which serve more than six million users across 120 countries. FreshBooks for Android introduces the ability to create “professional-looking invoices and estimates,” check message statuses to ...
Hortonworks Brings Hadoop to Windows
Microsoft and Hortonworks are bringing Hadoop to a billion users. The Big Data startup announced this week that the latest version of its open source Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) has been made available for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. HDP 1.3 is the first Hadoop distribution to have been certified for use ...
Hybrid Storage is Disrupting the IT Landscape
The Internet of Things is driving demand for cost-effective storage solutions that deliver both capacity and performance, according to Rob Commins, the vice president of Tegile. The executive told us that his company’s hybrid arrays marry the benefits of solid-state and traditional disk to “reduce capacity requirements while driving performance integrity.” Tegile’s value proposition has ...
Appcelerator Succeeds with Vision for Developers in Today’s Mobile Era
Appcelerator, a leading provider of cloud-based mobile development solutions, has been named as a “visionary” by Gartner for the second year in a row. The company secured the highest placement for vision and execution in the recently published Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms. “We believe Appcelerator’s position as the most visionary company by ...
Tegile Doubles Sales, Raises a Massive $35M for Hybrid Storage
Demand for hybrid storage solutions is skyrocketing. Tegile, one of the fastest growing players in this space, revealed that it has improved its sales from doubling every two quarters to doubling every quarter before opening the $35 million Series C funding round it closed today. The round was led by late-stage venture firm Meritech Capital ...
Ed Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Gov’t Probe
Lavabit, a privacy-centric email provider that was dragged into the media spotlight after Edward Snowden used its service to contact journalists, has shut down in an effort to avoid handing user data over to the government. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto discussed the news in a recent interview with NewsDesk host Kristin Feledy. John says ...
Security Recap: IPOs and Cybercriminals
The U.S. government is getting serious about cybersecurity. Earlier this week the White House published a preliminary list of of incentives for critical infrastructure companies that participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s nation-wide security program. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto views the development as a positive step towards comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. At the same ...
Feds Bust Largest Hacking Operation in US History
Five Eastern European men have been charged with operating a global hacking network that siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from top financial institutions. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto offered his insights into the operation in a recent Q&A on NewsDesk. John says that the scheme was orchestrated by four Russian nationals, a Ukrainian man ...
The SiliconANGLE on Auernheimer’s Conviction
A group of prominent legal experts have appealed the conviction of Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, a 27-year-old security researcher from Arkansas who was found guilty of violating the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in March. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto shared his perspective on the case in a recent interview on NewsDesk. John tells ...
