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Castle raises $2 million to fight rising threat of account takeover attacks
The ransomware and botnet attacks that have been dominating the headlines lately are only two of the online threats that organizations have to deal with these days. An equally pressing danger is the rise of so-called account takeover campaigns that target users with privileged access rights to a service or personal data in their profiles. ...
Sequoia leads $10M investment into network analytics startup Indeni
Visa Inc., Fujitsu Ltd. and Comcast Corp. don’t have much in common from a competitive standpoint, but behind the scenes, they all rely on a startup called Indeni Inc. to keep their data centers running smoothly. The Palo Alto-based firm has quietly emerged as a force to be reckoned within the information technology operations world ...
Periscope Data raises $25M to boost cloud data visualization service
As data becomes increasingly essential to making business decisions, organizations are adopting new tools that can help their users access important information more easily. One of the startups working to capitalize on the trend is San Francisco-based Periscope Data Inc., which raised $25 million in funding this week from a group of big-name backers led by ...
Sysdig makes its container monitoring service more appealing for DevOps teams
Like the other startups in the crowded Docker container ecosystem, Sysdig Inc. is hard at work building new features that can help set it apart from the pack. The latest fruit of the company’s efforts is a team management capability for its namesake monitoring service that aims to ease the administration of clusters of containers, ...
Tableau unveils new in-memory data engine, machine learning features
Big changes are coming to Tableau Software Inc.’s data visualization platform. At its annual customer event in Austin today, the company laid out an ambitious three-year feature roadmap aimed at addressing the key trends that are shaping the work of business intelligence professionals. The first and arguably biggest item on the agenda is a new ...
What’s new in SAP Hana 2 database: satellite data and cloud analytics
Attendees of SAP SE’s TechEd conference in Barcelona this week will have plenty to talk about between sessions. The company kicked off the event today by unveiling a landmark new release of Hana, the in-memory database underpinning its core products, that aims to streamline every major aspect of running an analytics environment. On the backend, ...
Google adds new testing, analytics features to its Firebase backend as a service
Building and testing mobile applications could soon become a much more streamlined experience for developers who rely on Google Inc.’s cloud-based Firebase toolkit. At an event in Berlin today, the search giant introduced a new iteration of the managed backend that promises to speed up several key parts of the software lifecycle, starting with bug ...
NetApp to cut 6 percent of staff as storage competition grows
In a sign of cloud computing’s growing disruption of the technology industry, NetApp Inc. is already gearing up for another restructuring just two months after completing its last round of job cuts. The storage giant revealed plans to lay off 6 percent of its workforce, or about 640 employees, in a filing submitted to the U.S. ...
CenturyLink to sell 57 data centers to consortium for $2.15B
The past week has seen telecommunications giant CenturyLink Inc. execute two of the most significant business moves in its recent history. On Monday, the company signed an agreement to acquire Level 3 Communications Inc. for $34 billion in a deal that is poised to buy it over 200,0000 route miles worth of fiber-optic cabling. Today ...
Microsoft beefs up its Power BI cloud business intelligence service
Analytics providers are constantly working to lower the learning curve of their offerings in a bid to reach more users. Microsoft Corp. joined the effort this week by releasing a new data visualization feature for Power BI, its cloud-based business intelligence service, that lets analysts create graphs with the R language without having to perform ...