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Jitterbit banks $25 million investment as API frenzy continues
Application program interface orchestration startup Jitterbit Inc. today said it raised $25 million to boost sales and services as well as to strengthen its international presence. The Series C funding round was led by global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which led the company’s previous funding round nearly two years ago. Jitterbit is a 12-year-old data integration company ...
HPE debuts modular Superdome successor for in-memory computing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is giving its Superdome in-memory computing platform its first major upgrade in nearly three years with a modular edition that enables customers to start small and scale up to 48 terabytes of memory in a single system. The Superdome Flex incorporates technology HPE acquired with the purchase of Silicon Graphics International Corp. ...
Riverbed broadly enhances SteelCentral SD-WAN performance monitor
Software-defined wide-area network provider Riverbed Technology Inc. has enhanced its Riverbed SteelCentral network performance monitor with better information, improved analytics support and support for containers. The company also announced an alliance with Zscaler Inc. to deliver a secure cloud-based service aimed at branch and remote offices. Riverbed is targeting the market for digital experience management, or products ...
As earnings beat forecast, Hortonworks says it’s about to hit cash-flow breakeven
Hortonworks Inc. today beat analysts’ estimates on both revenue and profit in its third quarter, providing further evidence that its pure-play open source business model is gaining traction. The company also raised revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and the year. Investors chose to focus on its growing deferred-revenue line and bid the stock down slightly ...
Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB
MariaDB Corp., the most recent company to make a case for a profitable open-source business model, today announced a vote of confidence in the form of a $27 million investment led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Also participating were existing investors Intel Capital Corp., California Technology Ventures LLC, Tesi Group, SmartFin Capital and Open Ocean SAS. MariaDB’s ...
Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks
The internet was never designed to be secure, a fact that has given information technology organizations fits for more than 20 years. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol behind the internet assumes a high level of trust for devices that are on an internal network and willingly shares information about other devices on the same subnet, ...
Application container-friendly Pentaho 8 gets native Kafka support
The Hitachi Vantara subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has added support for Apache Kafka streaming data in version 8 of its Pentaho data integration and analytics software. The move, announced on Oct. 26, extends the company’s embrace of the open-source ecosystem building around Apache Spark and its Spark Streaming extension, which are commonly used with Kafka. Pentaho 8.0 fully enables ...
ServiceNow beats forecasts, but slowing growth rate unsettles investors
ServiceNow Inc. beat forecasts on quarterly revenue and profit, but a weaker-than-expected forecast for subscription revenues spooked investors, who knocked the stock back about 4 percent in after-hours trading. The maker of cloud-based workflow automation and service management software maintained its historically scorching growth rates with a 37 percent increase in quarterly revenue over the ...
Segment enables marketers to target audiences of one
Data segmentation and analytics firm Segment.io Inc. is giving its customers the ability to synthesize large amounts of customer data into individual profiles that can be used for personalization. The feature, called Personas, establishes a central record of an organization’s entire relationship with a customer for purposes such as email marketing, advertising, social media interactions ...
AMD beats earnings forecasts, but stock plunges on light outlook
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates on revenue and profit in the third quarter, but investors were clearly hoping the good times would continue in the new quarter, as they knocked the chip maker’s stock back nearly 11 percent in after-hours trading. “Wall Street had expected a bigger Q3 after a stellar ...