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Sqrrl Raises $5.2M To Provide Deeper Granularity For NSA-Born Database Technology
Sqrrl, a big data startup with links to the NSA, announced $5.2 million in Series A funding from existing investors Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners, which will be used to further fund the development and commercialization of its scalable, NoSQL database "Sqrrl Enterprise." An updated version of this product (version 1.2) is also shipping today with additional analytic, security and performance… Read More
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IBM Is Not A Cloud King
IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy. Revenues were down $1 billion with hardware sales declining 17 percent. Read More
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Windows Azure Offers Up To 22% Price Drop For Memory-Intensive Apps While Questions Remain About Running An In-House Cloud
Windows Azure is offering up to 22 percent off the cost of memory-intensive compute instances across Windows, Linux and its "Cloud Services" offerings. The price drop is primarily for running applications such as Sharepoint, SQL Server, third-party databases, in-memory analytics and other enterprise applications. Read More
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ParStream Raises $8M From Khosla Ventures For Data Analytics Platform
ParStream, one of the most promising data analytics startups, has raised an $8 million Series B round led by Khosla Ventures. The round increases ParStream's total funding to $13.6 million. The company raised $5.6 million last year in a round led by Khosla Ventures with Baker Capital, Crunch Fund, Data Collective, Tola Capital and private individuals participating. Read More
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Tibco Tibbr Gets File Sharing, Tasks And A New Publishing Engine
Tibco, the middleware company, showed again its push to become an enterprise collaboration provider with the latest version of its tibbr service by adding file storage and sharing capability, task management and a publishing platform for managing content. The company also announced a partnership with Huddle and support for the new Microsoft Surface launching October 22. Read More
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Search Engine Giant Yandex Launches Cocaine, A Cloud Service To Compete With Google App Engine
Russian search giant Yandex has launched an open-source platform as a service (PaaS) called Cocaine that the company says allows developers to build out their own app engines. Yandex, in its documentation, describes Cocaine as an open-source PaaS system for creating custom cloud-hosting apps that are similar to Google App Engine or Heroku. It supports C++, Python and JavaScript. It is… Read More
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IBM Revenues Down $1 Billion For Third Quarter As Hardware Sales Falter With Popularity Of The Cloud
IBM has reported its third-quarter revenues were $23.72 billion compared to $24.74 billion this time last year. The revenues were down due to the company’s underperforming hardware division, which is taking a hit with the growing popularity of cloud services. Revenues for the nine-month period totaled $72.1 billion, a decrease of 4 percent, compared with $75.2 billion for the nine months… Read More
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Druva Raises $25M For Backup And File Sharing Platform
Druva has raised a $25 million Series C investment from Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital for its backup and file sharing platform that safeguards a company's data across mobile devices and desktops. The company will use the funds to extend its new cloud services offering. To date, Druva has raised a total of $52 million. Read More
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Atlassian Earned $150M In Revenues Last Year But Competition Intensifies With Collaboration Providers
Atlassian makes tools for software teams to collaborate that it sells pretty much entirely over the Internet. It's a low-overhead business and the model works. For its 2013 fiscal year, Atlasssian had $150 million in revenues, having posted $110 million in fiscal 2012. Read More
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GitHub For Windows Makes Layout Changes, Abstracts Time Zones To Simplify Updates
GitHub for Windows has received some updates to make for what the company calls a "lighter and brighter" user experience for the popular version of the code collaboration platform. The changes to the layout are part of a number of other minor changes that GitHub has made. Read More
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The CEOs Are Wrong: Smart Machines Will Replace Millions Of Jobs
Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don't tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a "futurist fantasy." The survey results reflect the anxiety about automation of the work world and the advent of smart machines that Gartner says will have… Read More
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Punchh, The Platform That Connects A Restaurant’s Cash Register To A Customer’s Smart Phone
Punchh is a CRM platform for the brick and mortar business world that takes the old punch card that you get at a coffee shop or restaurant and makes it an app that a restaurant can hook into its point of sale system. Read More
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CoreOS Receives Investment From Andreessen Horowitz And Sequoia For New Cloud OS Built With Google In Mind
CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastructure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but CEO and Co-Founder Alex Polvi said the amount is in the $1 million to $5 million range. Read More
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Google App Engine Adds New Starter Package To Speed iOS Development
Google App Engine has added a new starter package to speed iOS development. The new service, Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, is designed to speed the development of connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. Read More
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BYOD Service Enterproid Raises $12M From Google Ventures And Changes Name To “Divide”
Enterproid, which has changed its name to Divide, has raised $12 million from Google Ventures in a Series B round for its service that encrypts a device and separates a person's personal and work data. Existing investors Comcast Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures also participated and were joined by new investors Globespan Capital Partners and Harmony Partners. The investment brings the company's… Read More
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Dome9 Brings On The Pretty Pictures To Make AWS Security Less Of A Labyrinth
Amazon Web Services has a user interface that makes it a monster to manage. To view the status of deployments across thousands of instances on AWS is a complex, often manual process. There is a new generation of companies that are making it visually easier to manage AWS deployments, the latest of which is Dome9. Read More
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PHP On Google App Engine Now Generally Available
PHP is now in preview on Google App Engine, fully available to the general public. The preview status means that it is no longer necessary for developers to whitelist their applications for deployment. Google launched PHP, its fourth run-time language, at Google I/O earlier this year. One of the world's most popular programming languages, PHP is at the heart of such services as Facebook… Read More
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Amazon Web Services Wins Again In Battle To Build The CIA Cloud
Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal the ruling. In a statement, the company said what the company offers is… Read More
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Numerify’s Stealth Mode Status Poses A Paradox For The Cloud Analytics Company
Last week, Numerify, announced it had raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also received funding from a number of prominent angel investors, including Frank Slootman, CEO of ServiceNow, Amit Singh, president of Google Enterprise and Deep Nishar, SVP of Products and User Experience at Linkedin. Read More
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MongoDB Raises $150M For NoSQL Database Technology With Salesforce Joining As Investor
MongoDB has raised $150 million from T. Rowe Price Associates with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. Existing investors Intel Capital, NEA, Red Hat and Sequoia Capital also participated in the round. MongoDB has raised $231 million since the founders started the company in 2007. Read More
