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Apache Arrow-based self-service analytics startup Dremio hauls in $25M
Self-service data analytics startup Dremio Corp. today said it has closed a $25 million funding round to build and market the Apache Arrow-based platform that the company says can democratize access to big-data repositories. The Series B round brings Dremio’s total funding to $40 million. It was led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners along with ...
Unravel Data banks $15M to improve big data application management
Unravel Data Systems Inc., which manages application performance in big data environments, has raised $15 million in a financing led by GGV Capital. The Series B round, joined by Microsoft Ventures Inc. and Menlo Ventures, brings the total raised to $23 million. The company, which emerged from stealth in the fall of 2016, plans to spend the money ...
3D printing enables a faucet maker to imagine the impossible
Bill McKeone has designed thousands of kitchen and bath fixtures and amassed more than 625 patents over 30 years, but until recently he was frustrated in his goal to create the perfect bathroom faucet. Like many industrial designers, his creations have always been limited to the capabilities of the equipment needed to manufacture them in ...
Led by cloud and mainframe sales, IBM logs first growth in nearly six years
The streak is over. Delivering on expectations it set last October, IBM Corp. reported 4 percent revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2017, ending a five-and-a-half-year skid that had seen annual sales fall by about 15 percent over that time. The $22.5 billion in quarterly revenue was slightly ahead of Wall Street estimates of ...
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As earnings season kicks off, can big tech keep the good times rolling?
The first round of earnings reports by major technology providers in 2018 kicks off Thursday, with IBM Corp. expected to set the stage for what optimists hope will be another season of good tidings. There’s reason to believe they’ll be rewarded. Gartner Inc.’s just-released annual spending forecast projects that worldwide information technology investments will total $3.7 trillion ...
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There’s a much bigger issue for tech firms than Trump’s rollback of H-1B visas
The tech executives who have been decrying the Trump administration’s slowing of foreign worker visas are missing the real point: They need to rethink their entire approach to hiring and training before they worry about H-1B visa program. That’s according to one information technology staffing expert who thinks the furor masks much bigger issues than ...
This company has saved insurers millions with its IoT weather analytics network
In many parts of the U.S., hailstorms are a constant threat. Hailstones can damage roofs and siding of afflicted buildings beyond repair in just a few minutes, requiring insurance companies to pay large claims. But sometimes hailstones aren’t the culprit. In Dallas recently, one policyholder with coverage on several rental properties submitted two claims for roof damage ...
MapR CEO resigns abruptly, replaced by big-data company’s founder
MapR Technologies Inc. has removed Chief Executive Matt Mills (pictured, right) and replaced him with founder and Executive Chairman John Schroeder (left). The move comes less than two years after Mills, a veteran of Oracle Corp. was appointed CEO with considerable fanfare in what the big-data management firm called an evolutionary move to help the ...
Survey finds IT disaster recovery practices still rely on old technologies
Digital transformation is high on the agenda for many organizations today, but it turns out a lot of them are doing things the same old way when it comes to keeping the lights on and the engines running. A joint survey of more than 5,600 information technology professionals across the globe by software vendors Syncsort ...
‘Digital workplace’ firm Igloo Software beats winter’s chill with $47M infusion
The average temperature was 9 degrees last week in Kitchener, Ontario, but the offices of Igloo Inc. were warmed by a infusion of $47 million in new funding, the closing of which was announced today. The funding was led by Frontier Capital, a Charlotte, N.C.-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business ...
