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Avinash Lakshman’s Hedvig Inc. scores $18M Series B to push SDS
Hedvig Inc., the software-defined storage (SDS) startup, that burst out of stealth with $12.5 million in funding just two months ago, has secured an additional $18 million in a Series B round that brings its total funding to $30.5 million. The startup is most notable for being founded by Avinash Lakshman, the same guy who ...
MongoDB claims superior scalability over Cassandra & Couchbase
MongoDB Inc. believes it’s set to become the “default” NoSQL database in the enterprises now that its performance is at the same level as its wide variety of features, the company’s president claimed yesterday. The MongoDB database outperforms rival NoSQL software by up to 13 times when it comes to scalability, claims United Software Associates ...
Salesforce gets a digital assistant with Tempo acquisition
Salesforce.com, Inc. has acquired Tempo, maker of the smart, artificial intelligence-powered calendar app of the same name, for an undisclosed amount. The deal means that Tempo will no longer be available to new users, and the software will be discontinued for existing users on June 30. Tempo is an interesting buy for Salesforce. It’s a ...
The Internet of Things: A solution looking for a problem?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being wildly overhyped, and developers would be better off looking at it as the “Internet of Sensors” if they want to get ahead. “Companies that embrace the IoS and not the IoT will be the winners in the connected world,” claims a U.K.-based technology and development organization called The ...
Faulty software install led to Airbus A400M plane crash
Airbus SAS has admitted that a software problem caused its A400M transport plane to crash in an accident that killed four people last month. Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reports the software in question was installed incorrectly, and that caused the A400M’s engines to stall shortly before the crash. However, the software itself was free from glitches. ...
Microsoft to release Windows 10 on July 29
Just hours after the launch date for Windows 10 was supposedly ‘leaked’, Microsoft has gone and confirmed that Windows 10 will be available globally on July 29. Users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will all be able to download the new OS on that date for free, for a period of one year. The ...
Server market rebounds with strongest growth since 2010, Gartner says
Things are suddenly looking up for server makers, with sales in the category growing faster in the last quarter than at any time since 2010. Gartner Inc.’s preliminary estimates show the worldwide server market expanded by 18 percent in the first quarter to $13.39 billion, while unit shipments rose by 13 percent to 2.66 million. ...
Salesforce rides its Wave into Big Data analytics
Just days after snubbing Microsoft’s $55 billion takeover offer, Salesforce.com, Inc. has unveiled Salesforce Wave for Big Data, a new tool designed to help business users make sense of their information stores using the Salesforce Analytics Cloud. Salesforce first showed off Wave, a tool designed to pull data into Salesforce’s cloud and generate business-friendly analytics, ...
Avago gobbles up Broadcom in $37B merger, sets sights on surpassing Intel
Confirming rumors from earlier this week, chip manufacturer Avago Technologies Ltd. has said it’s entered into a definitive agreement to buy rival firm Broadcom Corp. in a cash-plus-stock deal worth $37 billion. Once the deal is done, the newly combined businesses will become “Broadcom Ltd.”, marking a continuation of the consolidation being seen in the ...
Cisco forecasts wild M2M growth in latest Visual Networking Index
Experts have been talking about the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) for what seems like years already, but now Cisco Systems Ltd. is illustrating this in graphic form with its latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) report. Assuming Cisco has its numbers right, the IoT will account for the vast majority of new connections ...