Cyber-Ark Software, which provides identity management solutions to financial institutions and other enterprise customers worldwide, has raised a healthy $40 million in venture capital funding in a round led by Goldman Sachs and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Founded in 1999, Cyber-Ark had previously raised $25 million from angel investors and VCs. The company provides information [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2011 by admin
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Today Red Hat announces the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, the latest iteration of their flagship Linux distribution. I don’t usually cover every point release of every Linux distribution, but since I’ve covered recent releases from Canonical and SUSE I thought I’d give Red Hat some coverage, too. RHEL 6.2 is in some [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2011 by admin
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Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Kaplan, who leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. Before Twilio, he worked as a contractor in Product Marketing for Salesforce. Follow him @dankaplan or find him on Quora. You’ve got to hand it to Salesforce: [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by admin
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ServiceMesh, an enterprise cloud platform has raised $15 million in funding from Ignition Partners. Frank Artale, a partner at Ignition, will join the ServiceMesh board of directors. This is ServiceMesh’s first round of institutional funding. The ServiceMesh Agility Platform helps enterprise customers with self-service provisioning and management of standardized and fully governed infrastructure as a [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2011 by admin
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Virident, a company that offers flash-based storage solutions for enterprise, announced today that it has closed a $21 million series C funding round. The investment was led by Globespan Capital Partners, with strategic investments from Intel Capital, Cisco and contributions from existing investors, Sequoia Capital and Artiman Ventures. The series C round brings Virident to [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2011 by admin
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Gartner just released its worldwide enterprise IT spending estimates, which are projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012. That’s a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 expected spending of $2.6 trillion, but down from a 5.9 percent expected increase in 2011. Gartner says this year alone, 350 companies will each invest more than $1 billion in [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has closed a $4 million Series B round from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday and founder of PeopleSoft, bringing the total amount raised to more than $11 million. Tidemark formerly debuted last year as stealth startup Proferi, but has rebranded today under [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Oracle has acquired Endeca, a company that powers enterprise search for large companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Endeca has raised a total of $65 million from Bessemer, Venrock, Intel, SAP, Ampersand Capital Partners, DN Capital and Lehman Brothers. Endeca’s core technology enables companies to correlate and analyze unstructured data and provides [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by admin
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Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud computing project that now has over 1,450 contributors and 110 participating companies, including NASA, Rackspace, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arista Networks, Microsoft [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2011 by admin
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Mobile device management company Zenprise is today introducing its new enterprise-grade mobile DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) that aims to help I.T. departments with the growing “bring your own device” to work trend. The Zenprise Enterprise Mobile DLP will be offered as an optional add-on to the company’s larger solution, the Zenprise Mobile Enterprise Security Framework, [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by admin
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