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Rising in-memory database tide floats Kinetica to $50 million funding round
Kinetica Db Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million series A financing round, nearly quintupling its total venture capital investment in one fell swoop. The in-memory relational database maker, which is distinctive for its use of graphics processing units to accelerate performance, said it will use the funds to invest in engineering, sales, marketing ...
Aviatrix inks deals with Nutanix, Cisco to simplify hybrid cloud networking
Aviatrix Systems Inc. is joining with Nutanix Inc. on a product that enables enterprises to automate connectivity between hyperconverged private cloud environments and popular public clouds. Separately, the company said its Aviatrix Cloud Interconnect software will be sold with Cisco Systems Inc. as part of the networking giant’s HyperFlex hyper-converged ecosystem. The deal with Nutanix will ...
Nutanix brings its technology stack to the cloud, including Google’s
“Hybrid cloud” is a way for companies to use both public cloud computing services and private cloud services in their own data centers. Nutanix Inc. thinks the concept needs a reboot. To help do that, Nutanix today is bringing its hyperconverged infrastructure, a method of tightly combining compute, storage, networking and other technologies in a single ...
Selling ‘outcomes’: GE shows that old rules don’t apply to digital business
A cardinal rule of sales is never to guarantee results. But General Electric Co. is defying that conventional wisdom with a new approach to engaging industrial customers that earns GE a premium when it can demonstrably save customers money. The “outcome as a service” initiative, as GE calls it, is part of the company’s broader ...
IBM nudges DB2 toward hybrid analytical role
IBM Corp. is refreshing its 34-year-old DB2 relational database management system with features that mirror those of the increasingly popular breed of hybrid transactional/analytical databases, while at the same time making it easier for developers to get started via a community edition that can be deployed to a variety of computer systems via software containers. ...
IBM gives Apache Atlas a General Data Protection Regulation boost
IBM Corp. is utilizing Apache Atlas data governance and metadata framework as a kind of open source operating system to help customers comply with the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation, perhaps better-known as GDPR The moves include new data governance tools, the opening of new data science and machine learning education centers in London and Boblingen, ...
Red Hat’s comeback rolls on, thanks to a surging application development business
Red Hat Inc. blew past consensus estimates on both revenue and profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2018 on a surge in its application development-related business, leading it to raise revenue and earnings estimates for the rest of the year. After-hours investors applauded by sending the stock up nearly 10 percent. The Raleigh, North ...
Comtrade keys on simplicity with data protection software for Nutanix servers
Comtrade Software Solutions GmbH is targeting users of Nutanix Inc.’s hyperconverged infrastructure with what it says is the first purpose-built data protection applications for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Called HYCU, which stands for Hyperconverged Uptime, the software takes four minutes of ramp-up learning, three minutes to deploy and two minutes to recover identified data, the company claimed. ...
Cray brings integrated analytics suite to its high-end supercomputers
Venerable supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today is announcing an analytics software suite for its XC family of supercomputers that includes a variety of graph analytics, deep learning and big-data analytics tools. With the Cray Urika-XC software suite, analytics and artificial intelligence workloads can run alongside scientific modeling and simulations without the need to move data between ...
Iowa City beat cop invents a novel solution to the computer theft epidemic
By day, Officer David Schwindt of the Iowa City Police Department bikes or walks the streets of the downtown pedestrian mall, stopping to chat with shoppers and handing out small necessities such as clean socks to the homeless people who live there. By night and on weekends, he builds technology that has the potential to ...
