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At 14, John Sculley invented a color picture tube and channel changer that almost were licensed by a major TV manufacturer. His college major wasn’t business but architecture. His career took him to Pepsi-Cola Co., however, where he rose through the ranks …
SignalFx exits stealth with a whole new approach to application monitoring
Asserting that application monitoring technology designed for the age of monolithic computers hasn’t kept pace with today’s highly containerized and distributed environments, SignalFx (formerly SignalFuse) is emerging from stealth today with a fresh $28.5 million funding round and technology that it says approaches …
SugarCRM buys sales rep productivity tech with Stitch acquisition
In a talent grab that also takes a dig at rival CRM software provider Salesforce.com, Inc. SugarCRM, Inc. has snatched up the intellectual property and other assets of Hothouse Labs, Inc. the San Francisco-based maker of the Stitch mobile app. SugarCRM also hired eight employees of …
Wikibon view: ODP clarifies choices in chaotic Hadoop market
Industry consortia have a mixed track record in computer industry history. At their best, they create standards the market can rally around, thereby simplifying user decision making (think W3C). At their worst, they foster bickering and divisiveness that shoves innovation into a …
Syncsort acquires William Data to boost mainframe-Splunk integration
Syncsort, Inc., one of the most durable independent software vendors, has acquired U.K.-based William Data Systems as part of its campaign to help enterprise mainframe users leverage the power of modern Big Data technologies to make more efficient use of their big machines. …
SolidFire fills in mid-tier product line and unbundles its storage OS
Coming off a year in which it claims enterprise sales grew by nearly 600%, SolidFire, Inc. is introducing its latest all-flash array, citing forward-compatibility guarantees and flexible deployment options as incentives. The company is also unbundling its Element OS storage operating system …
Violin Memory says throw out those disks with its new all-flash arrays
Violin Memory, Inc. is rolling out two new all-flash arrays, pitching them as the first flash storage systems that can run primary workloads at less than the cost of traditional disk. The company is also releasing an overhauled version of its Concerto …
Pentaho adds Amazon Redshift, Cloudera Impala to stable of data sources
A pending acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems isn’t slowing the pace of development at Pentaho Corp., which is opening its flagship analytics platform to Amazon Redshift and Cloudera, Inc.’s Impala in release 5.3 announced today. The open-source provider of reporting, analysis, dashboard, …
MemSQL extends in-memory database with Apache Spark connector
Continuing its campaign to evangelize the virtues of the SQL query language while also embracing alternatives, MemSQL, Inc. is rolling out a connector for the popular Apache Spark framework that it says enables rapid and seamless data transfer between the platforms. The …
DataStax buys TitanDB developer, enters red-hot graph database market
In a bid to bring together two of the hottest new database management technologies – the Apache Cassandra NoSQL columnar store and graph databases – DataStax, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Aurelius LLC, developer of the popular open source TitanDB …