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Nimble Storage unveils new $40K entry-level flash array
The all-flash array market is heating up. A day after E8 Storage Inc. debuted a new NVMe appliance that it claims is ten times faster than traditional alternatives, Nimble Storage Inc. is launching an entry-level system aimed at making the benefits of solid-state memory more easily attainable. The platform is being marketed under the name ...
Early virtual assistant provider Interactions raises $56M in funding
Though virtual assistants and chatbots only entered the industry spotlight fairly recently, they’ve been around in some form or another for over a decade. One of the earliest players in this space is Interactions LLC, a Massachusetts-based provider that secured a $56 million investment yesterday to expand its lead. The company claims that it’s processed more ...
FullContact raises $25M for its cross-platform address book
While email providers and social networks try to make managing contacts as easy as possible, it’s still a major hassle for busy enterprise workers who have to keep up with hundreds of different people at any given time. In response, users turning to third party providers like FullContact Inc., which closed $25 million in funding today ...
ThousandEyes extends its network monitoring service to employee endpoints
Monitoring an organization’s internal network can only provide so much operational insight in the age of cloud services and remote workers. To broaden administrators’ perspective, ThousandEyes Inc. is launching a new endpoint agent for its traffic tracking service that provides the ability to aggregate activity data from outside the firewall. More specifically, the software is ...
GigaSpaces opens up its in-memory data grid
More and more data management vendors are open-sourcing their software. DataTorrent Inc. released the code for its stream processing engine last year, Splice Machine Inc. did the same with its Hadoop-based relational store this June and now GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. is joining the club as well. The company this morning announced plans to make the ...
E8 Storage claims its new NVMe array is 10 times faster than other flash systems
At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara today, a low-key startup called E8 Storage Inc. has unveiled a scale-out array that it claims ups the performance ante for the entire industry. The system is referred to as the E8-D24 and can carry out ten times more read/write operations per second than traditional all-flash systems from ...
What you missed in Big Data: New ways of managing information
Few parts of the analytics industry that are more competitive than the database space. The rivalry in this segment kicked up yet another notch last week after a startup called Attic Labs Inc. joined the fray with a decentralized NoSQL store modeled after Git. Known as Noms, the database makes it possible to fork a ...
What you missed in Cloud: VMs and word processors
Though Amazon Inc. has maintained an iron grip on the infrastructure-as-a-service market for nearly a decade now, its competitors are still trying as hard as ever to lure users away. This rivalry returned to the fore last week after Microsoft Corp. added a new series of GPU-powered instances to Azure that promise to help speed ...
Report: Rackspace’s rumored sale could be worth $3.5BN
It’s looking more and more likely that Rackspace Hosting Inc. is heading towards a sale. Less than 24 hours after word leaked that the company is holding acquisition talks with a private equity firm, a new report from Reuters has crossed the wire with concrete details about the rumored deal. Rackspace is supposedly entertaining a ...
Google announces first hardware contribution to the Open Compute Project
Five months after joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) to help widen the adoption of hyperscale hardware, Google is apparently already in the thick of things. The search giant announced this week that it’s collaborating with Facebook Inc. to develop a new data center rack design modeled after its own internal equipment. Like most other ...