Wednesday May 8, 2024

Native data analysis comes to MongoDB

Seeking to make it easier for you to apply analytics to your big data stores, Pentaho today announced the general availability of the latest version of its business analytics and data integration platform. Tweet This Post

CloudPhysics Grabs $15M In Series C Funding And Announces New Virtual Storage Predictive Analytics

 CloudPhysics has a vision for the data center: It wants to give sysadmins clarity and insight into possible issues that create bottlenecks in a virtualized environment, offer solutions when they happen, and help prevent issues before they even happen — all as a cloud service. Read More Tweet This Post

Google’s Nest pays $555M to acquire home camera maker Dropcam

Nest, the Internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector maker owned by Google, is acquiring home security system developer Dropcam as part of a push to connect a wider range of devices in people’s homes. Nest said Friday that it was acquiring Dropcam and that the companies would be working together to build new products that add […]

New IT Infrastruccture Needs to be Put in Place by CIOs

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BlackBerry Launches BBM Protected For Confidential Instant Messaging

 BlackBerry today began the rollout of its first eBBM suite product, which tailors its BBM instant messaging service to enterprise users. Today marks the debut of BBM Protected, FIPS 140-2 cryptographic library-enabled messaging, between users within the same enterprise, or between organizations who also use BBM Protected, for secure and confidential communications. Who cares about […]

Microsoft Announces Azure ML, Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform That Can Predict Future Events

 Microsoft has been on quite a cloud roll lately and today it announced a new cloud-based machine learning platform called Azure ML, which enables companies to use the power of the cloud to build applications and APIs based on big data and predict future events instead of looking backwards at what happened. The product is built on […]

UCloud, China’s Answer To AWS, Raises $50M As It Eyes Up An IPO In The U.S.

 UCloud, a China-based provider of cloud computing infrastructure and services for games companies, mobile startups and other enterprises has raised $50 million in a Series B round of financing. UCloud, which offers prices that compete against those of Amazon Web Services, says this is the largest-ever funding round for a Chinese provider of cloud-infrastructure-as-a-service. The round… Read More Tweet This Post

Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool Clari Raises $20M More To Widen Its Big Data Net

 It was just in April that Clari — a mobile-first sales tool that uses data science and predictive analytics to help sales people do their jobs — emerged from stealth with $6 million in backing from Sequoia. Today the company is announcing another funding milestone: a Series B round of $20 million. Andy Byrne, the company’s founder […]

Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global

 Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch. The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing… Read […]

Cloud-based analytics offer insight to all

The ubiquitous phrase “big data” has worn out its welcome. For most businesses, the emphasis lies in useful analytic results, not the size or the source of data that produces insight. But that doesn’t mean analytics technology should stand still. Tweet This Post