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Here’s the Situation: Another $14M for Space-Time Insight’s ‘Situational Analytics’
Geospatial visualization software startup Space-Time Insight raked in another $14 million in a second round of funding – the announcement was made at the Utility Analytics Week convention today. New investors include Nuvus Energy Partners, and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund, while existing backers Opus Capital Ventures and Start Up Farms International (SUFI) also participated in ...
Netflix Fully Embraces the Cloud
In spite of Amazon’s entry into a market that directly competes with Netflix, the streaming video provides continues to store all of its titles on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix’s service has been heavily affected by the major AWS outages in the past few years, but Netflix remains committed to the promise of cloud computing. In fact, ...
SnapLogic Raises $20M for Cloud Integration
SnapLogic just disclosed that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding from Ignition Partners, Frank Artale and Andreessen Horowitz. This is the company’s biggest round to date, bringing the total amount raised to $32.5 million. SnapLogic sells the Integrated Platform, an enterprise solution that users can leverage to mix and match different apps, services and ...
AMD CFO Stepping Down, Devinder Kumar Named Interim Replacement
Thomas Seifert is stepping down from his position as AMD’s chief financial officer. Seifert has served as CFO since 2001 and has left his post to pursue other opportunities, according to a bare-bone release that the chipmaker published this week. Seifert, who played a very important role in the company both as CFO and as ...
Oracle Writes Checks Instead of Code: SelectMinds Buy Adds to Social Strategy
Oracle is competing with SAP and Salesforce over the hearts of corporate users, and is hoping to gain a competitive edge via aggressive non-organic growth. Underscoring this agenda is Oracle’s acquisition of SelectMinds today – terms of the deal were not disclosed. SelectMinds offers a cloud-based recruiting platform that relies on social media to spread the word. ...
HP Recognizes Need to Compete with Apple in Design Department
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has changed its mind a few times in recent years, especially when it comes to ultrabooks and mobile devices. In response to the negative impact of mobile on global demand for PCs, the company – led at the time by Mark Hurd – acquired Palm and with it the webOS platform for ...
ShareFile Tops This Week’s iPad Business App Roundup
The latest edition of Citrix’s ShareFile enterprise collaboration app made it to the top of this week’s roundup of business apps for your iPad and Android tablets. The company rolled out several new powerful features for both admins and end users that significantly improve the service: these include more control over users’ data, an offline ...
What You Missed in Big Data: New Software, Splunk Conference and HFOBD
A couple of major product updates in big data crossed the wire last week, along with highlights from Splunk’s annual conference and word of a new project called The Human Face of Big Data, which couples analytics with crowdsourcing. First up, EMC unveiled a partnership Alpine Data Labs. Alpine will integrate its cloud-based predictive analytics ...
This Week in the Cloud: Hosted Dashboards, Funding and Tech Support
This past week has proven to be anything but stale with product launches, funding and a notable acquisition – a little bit of everything. The first update comes from ComodIT. The Belgian startup launched its first product this week, a cloud management platform that goes by the name of Synapse Agent. It’s a command line ...
SAP’s Sneak Peak into its Next Generation Mobile Platform
SAP co-CEO Jim Snabe disclosed some of the new features that will be available with an upcoming release of its Sybase Unwired Platform, set to launch at the SAP SAPphire conference in Madrid a couple months from now. Snabe outlines a strong emphasis on customization with the latest version, an increasingly vital component now that ...