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What you missed in Big Data: visualizing knowledge
No matter how sophisticated the analytics engine running under the hood, data is ultimately only as useful as the business user makes it. That’s the guiding philosophy of Adatao Inc., an emerging startup focusing on the human aspect of the information processing lifecycle. The startup surfaced on the industry’s radar this week after raising $13 ...
MongoDB CEO Schireson hands over the reins to outsider entrepreneur Ittycheria
Max Schireson, who spearheaded the rapid growth of MongoDB Inc. over the past 18 months, is ending his successful streak at the helm of the database startup and handing over reins to Dev Ittycheria, an outsider who Schireson said brings all the right credentials to the table. MongoDB’s incoming president and chief executive is joining ...
Druva nets another $25M for cloud storage and data governance platform
Druva, Inc., a startup that promises to provide large organizations with the benefits of public cloud storage without the compromises of consumer-oriented file lockers, has received another $25 million in financing from its big-name investors to hammer home the message of painless, off-premise data management. The round, which is its fourth, was led by Silicon ...
Sprint taps Brightstar founder to take the helm as T-Mobile merger falls through
They may garner plenty of headlines, but BlackBerry Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. aren’t the only tech titans trying to recover some of their former glory. Sprint Corp. is also moving aggressively to reverse its declining revenues, and as we’ve recently learned, it will be going at it entirely alone – under new leadership, at that. ...
Mimosa promises to bring Google Fiber speeds to Wi-Fi networks
While traditional Internet providers are still scrambling to come up with a response to Google Fiber, a startup called Mimosa Networks Inc. is leapfrogging ahead with new low-cost backhaul hardware and a suite of complementary cloud services for delivering gigabit-speed wireless connections. The launch takes aim at the growing bandwidth challenge of the fast-expanding connected ...
Bitglass nabs another $25 billion for public cloud firewall
With the workplace now extending beyond the four corners of the office into the public cloud and the mobile universe, the traditional perimeter-centric approach to securing corporate data has become all but obsolete. Yet while much of the vendor ecosystem is still scrambling to catch up with the new reality of the connected workforce, one ...
Honey, I shrunk BlackBerry: CEO signals growth stage of bold restructure plan
After three years marked by wave after wave of aggressive cutbacks, employees at BlackBerry Ltd. can finally catch a breather, according to an internal memo from CEO John Chen that fell into the hands of the press on Tuesday. The news hold broad reaching implications for the struggling phone maker that extend far beyond just ...
From chore to value: How HP analytics transformed data protection| #HPdiscover
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co.’s acquisition of Autonomy didn’t go smoothly would be a tremendous understatement, but three years, an $8.8 billion writedown and several lawsuits later, the deal is paying dividends. That accomplishment didn’t come for free: it’s the result of HP overcoming the many potholes that sprung up on the road to the ...
Not even if they paid us! Globalfoundries turns down $1B from IBM to take over chip biz
IBM has reportedly hit its first major bump on the road to rid itself of the low-margin chip business after long-time supplier Globalfoundries Inc. refused a $1 billion offer to take over its struggling semiconductor operations. If true, the collapse of the negotiations with the chip maker marks a setback for CEO Virginia Rometty, who ...
Equinix cements position in hybrid cloud with Blue Box support
The promise of a hybrid cloud that makes it possible to shift workloads between on- and off-premise environments based on the specific business requirements at hand is certainly compelling, but what it has in allure it lacks in practicality. The ability to provision and move applications across geographically distributed requires meeting a host of difficult ...