Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of the types of instances you buy. You can get discounts by buying on a […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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As companies from small startups to large enterprise continue to generate an ever-increasing amount of data, the demand for affordable and scalable databases also increases. Typically, this market has been the domain of large vendors like Oracle, but besides them and the usual open-source players, we’ve also seen a growing number of closed-source startups enter […]
Posted on July 1st, 2012 by admin
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A lot of adtech startups have focused their attention on ways to improve the process of measuring, buying and delivering online ads, but here’s an example of a company getting some traction for a solution to gain a better sense of how a company’s online activities relate to what customers do to interact with the […]
Posted on May 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Birst, a San Francisco-based startup that offers on-demand business intelligence and analytics solutions for companies big and small, has raised $26 million in series D financing, led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors, including Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures, also participated in the round, bringing Birst’s total funding to $46 million. Founded in 2004 by a […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Sumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $15 million in Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners and angel investor Shlomo Kramer. The new funding brings the startup’s total venture capital backing to $20.5 million. Today, Sumo Logic emerged from […]
Posted on January 31st, 2012 by admin
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Enterprise-focused cloud performance analytics company Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has raised $24 million in new funding led by Redpoint Ventures with existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday participating. This brings the total amount raised to more than $35 million. Redpoint partner Geoff Yang will join Tidemark’s […]
Posted on January 21st, 2012 by admin
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Sociocast, which provides ‘Big Data’ analysis and human behavior prediction software to marketing and advertising decision makers within companies, this morning announced that it has closed a $1.5 million funding round before going after a larger financing round in 2012. The bridge funding was provided by Detroit Venture Partners and angel investors Bobby Yazdani, Joe […]
Posted on December 1st, 2011 by admin
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Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has closed a $4 million Series B round from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday and founder of PeopleSoft, bringing the total amount raised to more than $11 million. Tidemark formerly debuted last year as stealth startup Proferi, but has rebranded today under […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Silver Tail Systems, a provider of predictive analytics for detection and prevention of online fraud, this morning announced that it has secured an additional round of funding from Citi Ventures, a unit of Citigroup. This investment, the size of which was not disclosed, is part of a previously announced $20 million Series B funding round […]
Posted on September 24th, 2011 by admin
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Opera Solutions, not to be confused with browser maker Opera Software, has raised a whopping $84 million in its very first round of outside equity funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, the round values the company at half a billion dollars. The company, which is in the business of ‘Big Data’ analytics, got a […]
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by admin
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