Red Hat, the open source software provider, is squaring up to Amazon in the storage market. It has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $175 million in cash. Red Hat says it will combine Inktank’s primary product, Inktank Ceph Enterprise, with its own GlusterFS-based storage offering. Red […]
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Tealium has received $20 million in new financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The San Diego-based startup will use the capital to grow all its business units, including engineering, sales, customer service, and marketing. Tealium makes a tag management system that captures clean data streams for enterprise marketers doing analytics on websites, mobile sites, and mobile […]
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All the hype around big data last year didn’t drive big growth in the worldwide BI (business intelligence) and analytics market, according to research firm Gartner. While the BI and analytics market grew about 8 percent to $14.4 billion in 2013, the uptick could have been even greater, Gartner said. Tweet This Post
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Microsoft. For a generation of technology executives, the name strikes fear into even the most iron-willed business leaders. A lion among gazelles, its very gaze into a market could cause investors and analysts to flee in terror. Yet, its name has become a punchline among today’s technorati, a joke about formerly dominant companies evolving into […]
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Tidemark, a business financial forecasting startup, had a busy today announcing a major upgrade to their product and another $32M in funding. The product update, which CEO Christian Gheorghe described as a major upgrade, allows you to model the old board books, full of Excel spreadsheets. Instead of a static printed book or pdf, however, because you […]
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Google is taking its self-driving cars off the highway and onto city streets — safely, it claims. Google on Monday announced that its cars have now logged thousands of miles on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., improving the cars’ software to automatically handle a range of situations that previously would have stumped the Internet […]
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When you use two-factor authentication, chances are you are getting your second factor from a mobile phone app like Google Authenticator or Authy. This makes sense, given that you want to ensure that nobody who has access to your computer also has access to the application that provides you with your second key for accessing your […]
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Top 10 tips for Disaster Recovery in a Small Business best way to protect your data Disaster Recovery for a Small Business Baseline for best practices defined in Jancos Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template. As requirements for avoiding downtime become increasingly… Top 10 Disaster Recovery Best Practices As requirements for avoiding downtime become increasingly […]
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The toughest part about earning a Master of Science in Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) may be deciding which job to accept. The 75 students in the class of 2014, which is nearing graduation, received, in total, 246 job offers from 55 employers. Tweet This Post
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Pure Storage, a company that has pioneered a way to deliver solid state disk performance for a mechanical disk price, announced today it has received $225 million in Series F venture funding at a valuation of $3 billion. Those are impressive numbers, but it doesn’t stop there. According to company president David Hatfield, Pure Storage […]
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