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#CUBEConversation: Entrepreneur Rubin sees ClearSkies ahead
ClearSky Data Inc. emerged from stealth almost exactly a year ago with a proposal to all but erase the distinction between on-premise and cloud storage. Its novel architecture uses co-location facilities to enable customers to fluidly move data back and forth between their data centers and the cloud. The company has since begun shipping commercial ...
Ohio consortium gives R developers direct line to Watson
Columbus Collaboratory, a consortium of Ohio-based companies that are banding together to focus on solving knotty problems using analytics, has released an open-source extension to the R programming language that data scientists can use to access and build with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer. The Collaboratory, whose members include American Electric Power Company Inc., Battelle ...
Survey finds U.S. firms overrate digital transformation success
Digital transformation may be hotter than Las Vegas in August, but there’s a disconnect between the progress companies are making toward becoming more digital and their perceptions of their own success. QuickBase Inc., a former Intuit Inc. subsidiary that makes programming tools for mere mortals,, surveyed 301 IT and operational decision-makers in the U.S. and ...
MapR raises another $50M, says IPO goal is in sight
Big data platform vendor MapR Technologies Inc., has raised another $50 million, bringing its total funding to $194 million and giving it the runway executives said it needs to get to an initial public offering (IPO). Both the timing and the amount seem tuned to get to the finish line without losing control of the timetable. ...
HotLink makes hybrid cloud management faster, cheaper
HotLink Corp. is announcing a new version of its HotLink Cloud-Attach Platform for helping customers easily create hybrid clouds using a combination of VMware Inc.’s virtualization software and Amazon Web Services, and managed by VMware’s vCenter management console. Nearly a year to the day after the company first rolled out its hybrid cloud platform, HotLink is ...
#VMworld 2016 preview: VMware confident, but Dell takeover looms
As VMworld 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas later this month, there is new confidence at VMware Inc. about its competitive position and future growth prospects, but the forthcoming acquisition of EMC by Dell Inc. casts a long shadow. In a video interview previewing theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld, Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman (@Stu) says the ...
API manager opens up road to new profits for MapQuest
The words “application program interface” (API) may conjure up images of programmers rather than profits, but for a growing number of information service providers, APIs are practically a form of currency. APIs are Web service provider use to expose services so that other applications can use them. For example, a credit bureau may make credit ...
Zeta buys Acxiom’s email unit to boost analytical marketing service
Zeta Interactive Corp., a data-driven marketing firm that started life in the student loans business and then pivoted during the recession, is growing its footprint to 1,300 employees in 25 offices with the acquisition of Acxiom Ltd.’s Acxiom Impact email services unit. The value of the deal wasn’t revealed, but TechCrunch quoted unnamed sources saying ...
Spot.IM raises $13M in its quest to make comments cool again
Online community platform Spot.IM Ltd. brightened up an otherwise dismal publishing market with the announcement that it closed a $13 million funding round led by Index Ventures and Altair Capital Management LLC, along with several media and marketing luminaries. The company’s platform replaces commenting systems, such as Disqus and Facebook comments, with a live discussion platform ...
Tableau beats revenue plan, but discounts and costs tank earnings
Tableau shares fell after the business intelligence company reported almost no profits on better-than-expected revenue growth.
