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If there are any remaining doubts that the cloud has gone mainstream, new research by a consortium of 53 companies led by North Bridge Growth Equity and Venture Partners and the research firm Wikibon should put them to rest. The sixth annual …
Security platform sucks data from third-party sources into authentication process
Although Resilient Network Systems Inc. has been around for six years, it hasn’t done much to promote its unusual approach to network access control. The company is hoping to change that with release 3.0 of Resilient Access, an identity and access management …
ZEPL raises $4.1M to stoke growth of Apache Zeppelin notebook
The Apache Zeppelin analytical notebook is one of the hottest new open-source tools for programmers and data analysts, and now its developers have $4.1 million in new funding to develop it. ZEPL, which was formerly called NFLabs, will use the cash infusion to …
BlueData ports big-data-as-a-service platform to Amazon Web Services cloud
Big-data-as-a-service provider BlueData Software Inc. has ported its EPIC Big Data-as-a-Service software to the Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. The company said on Wednesday that it’s the first Big Data-as-a-Service platform to support both on-premises and cloud environments using Docker containers for portability between …
Dell posts $2B loss, but sees accelerating growth
Dell Technologies Inc. posted its first report card since its mammoth acquisition of EMC Corp., reporting a $2.06 billion loss in the third quarter of fiscal 2017 on $16.2 billion in sales. However, Dell executives pronounced overall performance as “solid” and expressed confidence …
Jitterbit courts ‘citizen integrators’ in major revamp of core platform
Building on a trend that’s sweeping the data integration industry, Jitterbit Inc. today announced a major new release of its of its Harmony platform that targets novice end-users while giving information technology organizations central tracking and control over the integrations that those users …
With fresh $40M funding round, SnapLogic eyes IPO
SnapLogic Inc. said it raised another $40 million in financing – bringing its total venture trove to $136.3 million – and made no bones about the fact that it’s got its sights set on an initial public offering. “An IPO is very …
Scribe Software overhauls integration platform in a bid to expand audience
Data integration vendor Scribe Software Corp. has completely revamped its look and feel while extending application program interface support in a bid to make its service more approachable to non-technical businesspeople. Scribe Online is an integration platform-as-a-service that can be used to plug …
CloudVelox tackles cloud migration pain with automated network mapping
Expectations that migrating to the cloud is an easy “lift and shift” proposition often founder on the reality of incompatible operating environments — especially when network addresses on cloud infrastructure don’t necessarily mimic the ones used inside a customer’s data center. Cloud …
Where’s that smartphone? Hadoop-based system delivers new supply chain insight
The recent crisis surrounding Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s overheating smartphones has dramatized a problem that affects makers of durable products across industries: Once a product leaves the factory, it’s devilishly difficult ever to find it again. Product lifecycle management has made it …