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Storage software startup Excelero Inc. is coming out of stealth today with $17.5 million in funding and a patent pending technology that it claims bridges the gap between captive flash storage on Linux servers and storage area networks. The company calls its NVMesh technology …
Nvidia more than doubles edge processor power
Continuing its bid to become an arms dealer for the internet of things revolution, Nvidia Corp. today is overhauling its Jetson embedded edge processing platform. The chip maker is doubling memory, storage and throughput while improving video encoding support and video capture …
HP Enterprise buys Nimble Storage for $1B to fill product-line gap
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. said today that it will buy flash storage maker Nimble Storage Inc. for about $1 billion in cash, plus about $200 million in unvested equity awards, as it seeks to shore up its flagging storage business in the …
Arcadia overhauls analytics-on-Hadoop engine with Google’s Material Design
Arcadia Data Inc. has overhauled the user interface in version 4.0 of its Arcadia Enterprise 4.0 big data platform, making it easier for users to perform visual analytics directly on Hadoop data stores. The company also enhanced security for extranet deployments, making …
How a scheduler helped one financial firm rein in its batch processing load
Real-time streaming data applications may get all the press, but the reality is that much of the business world still runs in batch mode. As companies grow, so does the volume of management reports that must be run overnight. At Raymond James …
Nimble raises $9M to expand its social CRM service
Nimble Inc., the social customer relationship management company founded by GoldMine Software Corp. co-founder Jon Ferrara (pictured), has raised $9 million in funding. The Series A round of financing was led by Imagen Capital Partners along with Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, Google …
Reltio boosts third-party integration with master data management service
Reltio Inc., a platform-as-a-service company that provides master data management services for disparate data sources, has announced the newest iteration of its cloud data management platform. The new version features integration with SnapLogic Inc.’s application program interface manager and improved integration with …
Trillium folds offline information into data-as-a-service offering
Trillium Software, a Syncsort Inc. subsidiary that specializes in data quality, today announced the availability of Trillium Precise, a new data-as-a-service offering that enables organizations to get a single view of validated, verified customer and prospect contact information, including offline data. Trillium …
Salesforce.com beats earnings forecasts and raises guidance, but investors sniff
Salesforce.com Inc. beat revenue forecasts, matched earnings-per-share estimates and raised its full-year 2018 revenue guidance, but all that wasn’t enough to please picky investors. The provider of customer relationship manager services saw shares decline about 1.5 percent in after-hours trading. The issue appeared …
Chip cards are driving more fraud online, study finds
Retailers suffered a 79 percent greater risk of fraud in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter a year ago. Merchants in the U.S. — and in the apparel industry in particular — bear the brunt of the growth, according …