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CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Get ready for the next big disruption in the cloud: serverless computing
In the process of sending more than 1.5 billion messages a day and interacting with more than 1 billion consumers a month, Braze Inc. uses a lot of cloud infrastructure. But its business is unpredictable, so demand for computing resources can fluctuate dramatically depending on the volume of data it must transform to support its ...
Tamr raises $18M for its campaign to unify data siloes
Data integration vendor Tamr Inc. Wednesday said it has closed an $18 million funding round to continue development and expand sales channels for what it calls a “machine-driven, human-guided approach to data unification.” That brings the Cambridge, Mass.-based company’s total funding to $65 million, said Chief Executive Andy Palmer. That’s less than the nine-figure amounts ...
Data-for-good programs are also good for business, Gartner says
Organizations are increasingly launching data-for-good programs for reasons that are both charitable and commercially lucrative, according to a new report by Gartner Inc. Fear of legal or regulatory consequences shouldn’t hold others back. Gartner defines data-for-good as “a movement in which people and organizations transcend organizational boundaries to use data to improve society.” Examples include ...
IBM boosts Java support in updated Open Liberty development platform
IBM Corp.’s campaign to promote the open-source version of its flagship WebSphere application server is getting a boost with a new release Monday of the software that supports the Java Enterprise Edition 8 specification. That makes Open Liberty, which is the open-source version of WebSphere, the first production application server to support Java EE 8, ...
Veridium reels in $16.5M for biometric tech that captures four fingerprints at once
Biometric authentication specialist Veridium Ltd. today said it closed a funding round of $16.5 million led by British entrepreneur and philanthropist, Michael Spencer, who reportedly provided $14.2 million of the total. The Quincy, Massachusetts-based firm said it will use the funds from the Series B round to accelerate development of its multifactor authentication platform and grow ...
Virtual Instruments simulates cloud migrations to identify gotchas before they become problems
Infrastructure performance management firm Virtual Instruments Inc. is applying its technology to cloud migration with a new service that helps organizations simulate the experience of moving their applications to cloud infrastructure platforms, so they can identify performance and dependency issues before they become problems. Cloud Migration Readiness is intended to help customers avoid unpleasant surprises when shifting workloads ...
MapR updates its data platform for better support of AI and analytics processing
MapR Technologies Inc. today is rolling out major updates to its core data platform. Together, the updates are aimed at speeding up the development and deployment of automated analytics, improving developer and data scientist productivity, boosting security and improving storage options. MapR’s stock in trade is what it calls a “converged data platform,” which supports ...
The Trade Desk brings machine learning to programmatic ad buying
Advertising technology firm The Trade Desk Inc. is releasing a new set of machine learning-based tools that marketers and advertising buyers can use to plan and schedule campaigns to a greater degree of precision than the company said has ever been possible before. Headed by the founder of AdECN Inc., which was the world’s first ...
Shares of open-source giant Red Hat pounded on weaker outlook
Updated Friday: Red Hat Inc. stock plummeted in after-hours trading after the open-source software giant offered a weaker outlook than analysts had anticipated. In the quarter just ended, the company exceeded analysts’ expectations with a profit of 72 cents per share, better than consensus estimates of 68 cents. Revenues rose 20 percent, to $814 million, ...
Teradata sues SAP, alleging trade secret theft
The nearly decade-long romance between data warehousing vendor Teradata Corp. and SAP SE has ended in divorce. Teradata Tuesday filed suit against the enterprise resource planning giant in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing SAP of taking advantage of a 2008 partnership between the two companies to steal Teradata trade ...
