Docker, Inc, the commercial entity developed around the Docker platform, made a couple of announcements today as part of their dockercon14 conference including the release of 1.0 of the project and an official marketplace for “Dockerized” products. CEO Ben Golub said the announcements at the conference are the culmination of 15 months of frenzied work for […]
Posted on June 16th, 2014 by admin
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Today, Okta, a company that offers Identity as a Service that works across on-premises applications and cloud services, announced $75M in Series E funding. CEO Todd McKinnon told me he expects this to be the final round of funding prior to going public within a couple of years. The round is being lead by Sequoia […]
Posted on June 15th, 2014 by admin
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Pie is the latest contender to launch in the enterprise collaboration space. It competes with services like Slack, which recently raised an impressive $42.75 million, as well as a host of other companies such as Convo, Hipchat, Hall, and CoTap. Co-founder Pieter Walraven says Pie “takes the noise out of work chat” by allowing users […]
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Continuing the growth of its software business applying big data analytics technologies to the human resources market, Visier has managed to attract $25.5 million in new financing. The new round will help the company expand into new verticals and consolidate its position in the human resources category, according to investors and the company’s chief executive […]
Posted on June 14th, 2014 by admin
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Freshdesk, the customer support as a service company with 23,000 customers, raised $31 million in Series D funding today in a round led by Tiger Global Management, with Accel Partners and Google Capital also contributing. The funding is significant, especially given its total to date was $44 million and the highest amount the company had […]
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For developers, embedding business intelligence (BI) analytics and interactive visualizations in an application can be a frustrating experience. You can sacrifice flexibility and more powerful capabilities in favor of simplicity and use iFrames or charting libraries. Or you can use representational state transfer (REST) APIs that grant you lots of control but are code-intensive to […]
Posted on June 14th, 2014 by admin
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Some consolidation afoot in the world of enterprise video. Imaging giant Canon is buying Milestone Systems, a startup from Denmark that has developed software for video surveillance systems. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, the companies say. Milestone, founded back in 1998, had raised $25 million from Index Ventures, and according to its latest […]
Posted on June 13th, 2014 by admin
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Glympse — a location sharing platform that has integrated its real-time mapping and tracking service into messaging apps, cars, wearables and other services — is today announcing a financing round of $12 million, money that CEO and co-founder Bryan Trussel tells me will mainly be used to staff up the business to deal with the interest it’s […]
Posted on June 13th, 2014 by admin
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The way that big data gets big is through a constant stream of incoming data. In high-volume environments, that data arrives at incredible rates, yet still needs to be analyzed and stored. John Hugg, software architect at VoltDB, proposes that instead of simply storing that data to be analyzed later, perhaps we’ve reached the point […]
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As the BYOD wave continues to wash over the enterprise market, different companies are taking different approaches to having their employees use their own phone and tablets for work. Many clamp down completely on this practice, but others take a slightly more inclusive approach. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on June 13th, 2014 by admin
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