Let’s say you’re at the airport, checking your email on your iPhone over the wifi. Well, you’ve already made your first mistake. You’ve trusted the airport network to be secure enough to protect you from hacker attacks. Zimperium announced today it has raised $8 million from Sierra Ventures to build out its mobile technology designed to […]
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Amazon Kinesis, the company’s new data streaming analytics platform, is now in public beta. It allows developers to build real-time apps without managing the complexity of multiple clusters. But though it has been heralded as a new type of real-time app platform, it also has some drawbacks that have emerged since its launch at AWS Re:Invent. AWS Kinesis […]
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IBM is acquiring Aspera, a bootstrapped file transfer company that counts media companies, SaaS providers and large enterprises as customers. Aspera has many enterprise use cases, including sending large amounts of genome data and feature-length movies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aspera’s software is built on “fasp,” its patented file transfer technology. Fasp […]
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Stride, a bootstrapped CRM company out of Seattle, has been sold to Neil Patel and Hiten Shah, the longtime investor partners behind KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company, which targets freelancers and small businesses, is designed a bit differently than a CRM platform like Salesforce.com. Instead of managing contacts, its architecture is […]
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The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real-time data processing by using cheap commodity hardware in clusters to spread data and then retrieve it for analysis. Customers are building data hubs that use […]
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Another step ahead for Amazon in its bid to become the world’s biggest cloud computing platform for businesses, and to specifically take aim at a big regional competitor in Asia, Alibaba. Today it announced that it would extend its Amazon Web Services suite of products to China beginning with a limited preview in early 2014. […]
Posted on December 18th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services hopes enterprises are willing to rely on the company when getting large amounts of data ready for analysis with its latest service, Kinesis. Kinesis was first made available as a limited preview last month, but is now available as a public beta. It is a managed service designed to handle real-time streams […]
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Wrike has launched a new version of its project management platform with an emphasis on real-time analysis and new features such as syncing calendars to work projects. The new platform, Wrike Enterprise, gives the company a deeper focus on the corporate market for its collaboration-centered tools. It gives customers a way to crunch project management […]
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