Sunday December 22, 2024

Clouds Rise As Arista Networks Shares Pop 28% As It Raises $226M In IPO

 Box may have delayed its IPO but not all enterprise tech companies based around cloud business models are seeing rainy days. Arista Networks today made its debut on the NYSE, and its shares popped 28% at the opening as it raised $226 million in its IPO. The company — a leader in cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments and […]

Dropbox Looks To Shed “Dropbox Problem” Image

 With 300M users, there is no denying Dropbox’s popularity, but driven by BYOD and easy procurement, the product has become emblematic of employees bringing their own services into companies to such an extent, the term “Dropbox problem” has entered the lexicon. Ilya Fushman, head of product, business and mobile at Dropbox, says the company is working hard to change […]

Google, in promoting encryption, calls out Microsoft and Comcast

Encryption is like a relationship — both parties need to be on the same page for it to work. And Microsoft and Comcast are apparently not on Google’s page. Google began a campaign Tuesday to raise awareness around encryption, and in the process it reported that less than 1 percent of emails sent during May […]

DataTorrent, A Big Data Platform Built On Hadoop, Can Process A Billion Events Per Second

 DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time. According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first engineers at Yahoo! hired in 1996, the product can process more than […]

ElasticSearch Scores $70M In Series C To Fund Growth Spurt

 ElasticSearch announced $70M in Series C funding today just 18 months after forming the company. Company executives say they will use the money to continue to drive their phenomenal growth. This round is being led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Additional funders include Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures. It brings total funding to date to $104M. It’s said […]

Popular Task-Management Software ToDoist Releases Its First Enterprise Product

 As it promised earlier this year, ToDoist has launched a version of its popular cross-platform task-management software for enterprise users. ToDoist For Business includes the support for collaboration and real-time sync it added back in January, as well as a host of other features. Read More Tweet This Post

Microsoft gives SQL Server tech to Hadoop — and helps itself

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Slidebean Launches To Give Prezi A Run For Its Money

 If you’re looking for an easier way to turn the content in your head into a beautiful presentation, Slidebean has launched to give users presentation tools right on the web. Of course, such tools have been around for years and years, but Slidebean is different in that it’s one of the only presentation builders that […]

FoKo Expands “Enterprise Instagram” Product To Desktop

 FoKo, the enterprise photo sharing applications that gives companies a private Instagram-like experience, has announced a new desktop version to share items such as CAD drawings, which might not be available from a smartphone. Up until now, FoKo has been strictly a smartphone app, but co-founder Eric Sauve said customers were demanding the ability to […]

3 mobile apps bring home IBM Watson’s power

IBM has been confident its machine-learning project, Watson, can do much more than just win at “Jeopardy.” To show off Watson’s Tweet This Post