Cloud security startup CloudLock will launch new encryption product to make it easier for service-as-a-service and cloud platforms to protect sensitive data. Called CloudLock Selective Encryption, the product’s launch comes a few weeks after CloudLock announced that it had raised $16.5 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding […]
Posted on February 20th, 2014 by admin
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: In an effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy amidst the runaway blight of the “Great Recession” and financial crisis beginning in 2008, Congress scrambled to enact and then distribute its unprecedented and controversial $787 billion economic stimulus package. Among other things, the Stimulus […]
Posted on February 15th, 2014 by admin
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Kinvey, the enterprise-centric backend as a service (BaaS) platform for mobile apps, is launching a new feature today that will allow its customers to run their apps in a dedicated private cloud or on-premise instead of on Kinvey’s regular multi-tenant platform. While BaaS platforms like Parse or StackMob (which is about to shut down after its […]
Posted on February 14th, 2014 by admin
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At a small media event in Mountain View today, Google announced the launch of Chromebox for Meetings, a $999 Core i7-based ASUS Chromebox setup with a remote, camera and microphone for conference rooms. The system uses Hangouts in the backend and is also compatible with existing conferencing setups from Vidyo and UberConference (for phone calls). The […]
Posted on February 7th, 2014 by admin
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Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera’s Hadoop environments. The release has the potential to expand Hadoop’s use for stream processing and faster machine learning. Tweet This Post
Posted on February 5th, 2014 by admin
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Billionaire jewelry king Fred Mouawad has a different take on the world of task management. Most providers have some play on keeping a list or offer a schedule of reminders. But Mouawad, after hanging out at Stanford University to get in geek mode, has built something different. It’s called Taskworld and it’s a task-management app that is […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2014 by admin
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Google Cloud Storage has long had the ability to run Hadoop so developers can do advanced analytics on its distributed computing platform. Today, Google is attempting to simplify this process with a new connector that the company says makes it easier to run Hadoop on the Google Cloud Platform. The Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop manages the cluster […]
Posted on January 15th, 2014 by admin
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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 […]
Posted on December 18th, 2013 by admin
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Rainforest, a Y Combinator company, has developed an on-demand service that runs functional tests against a crowd of people through Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform. The service is similar to how a customer can use Amazon Web Services to spin up and down instances. But in this case a customer makes an API request for people instead of […]
Posted on December 15th, 2013 by admin
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