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“I see things at different levels than most people. I can see a whole spreadsheet of information organized in my mind. Before we moved into our house, I could picture every room and know exactly where I was going to put everything. …
EMC drives most of Dell’s growth as PC and server revenues flatten
Dell Technologies Inc. said it’s growing market share in all of its key markets as synergies between its new EMC subsidiary and other federated companies kick in. The Round Rock, Texas-based company early today reported $20.1 billion in fiscal fourth-quarter revenues, up …
Business intelligence hotshot Looker rakes in another big pile of cash
Hot business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. has closed an $81.5 million Series D funding round, adding CapitalG, the late-stage venture capital fund run by Google’s Alphabet parent, to its growing roster of investors. The latest infusion brings Looker’s total funding to $177.5 million, …
Atadata eases cloud migration pain using scripts instead of middleware
Atadata LLC is targeting the thorny problems of cloud migration with a managed platform that enables companies to shift workloads between on-premises and cloud environments without the use of software agents or emulation. Designed to support large enterprise workloads and a wide …
ControlUp Raises $10M for operations monitoring platform
ControlUp Technologies Ltd. has raised $10 million in a series B funding round to build a U.S. presence for its analytics platform for information technology operations. ControlUp’s technology is used by organizations running hybrid clouds to measure performance metrics of virtual machine hypervisors …
JethroData cranks up speed and automation in business intelligence acceleration engine
JethroData Inc., provider of an index-based SQL platform that speeds up business intelligence operations on Hadoop as well as traditional data warehousing platforms, is today releasing a new version with improved security, automatic aggregation of decision-support cubes, an improved administrator interface and better …
LinkedIn adds high-end Sales Navigator edition
LinkedIn Corp. is furthering its drive into the customer relationship management market with a new high-end edition of its Sales Navigator prospecting tool and improved sales follow-up functionality. The top-of-the-line Sales Navigator Enterprise Edition increases the the number of monthly InMails that users …
Updated: With new products and partnerships, IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud
Updated Tuesday with comments from IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty’s keynote: As rivals public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure keep stealing business from traditional data center suppliers, IBM Corp. is announcing on Monday plans to redouble its …
IBM launches ‘enterprise-ready’ blockchain service
IBM Corp. won’t leave much doubt this week about its enthusiasm for blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that threatens to disrupt a wide swath of industries. On Monday, as part of a raft of announcements at its InterConnect cloud show in Las …
SolarWinds updates tools to simplify multi-cloud complexity
SolarWinds Inc. is buffing up its hybrid information technology management portfolio with updates announced Wednesday to several flagship products as well as its Orion unified monitoring platform. The company said the new features will help IT organizations better pinpoint performance and availability issues …