Monthly Archives: November 2012

Cisco Acquires Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash

Cisco will be acquiring San Francisco-based Meraki Inc. Meraki, a 330 employee startup, provides customers with cloud-based software for managing networking solutions such as Wi-Fi, security devices and mobile devices. Meraki’s acquisition enables Cisco to expand its market penetration in … Continue reading

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Big Data BI Vendor Platfora Raises $20M And Proclaims The Death Of the Data Warehouse

Big Data continues to be red hot within the venture capital space as evinced by the finalization of $20M in Series B funding for Platfora, the San Mateo-based business intelligence platform for Big Data and Hadoop. The funding round was … Continue reading

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Jaspersoft 5 Release Features New Visualization Engine And Enhanced Analytic Functionality

On Tuesday, Jaspersoft announced version 5 of its business intelligence suite of reporting and analytics products that boasts significant enhancements to its analytic functionality in addition to a new visualization platform that provides a richer user interface for interacting with … Continue reading

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RightScale And Rackspace Partnership Signals Turning Point In Battle For OpenStack Commercial Market Share

This week, RightScale made two important announcements related to OpenStack. First, the Santa Barbara-based cloud management company announced it will become a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. Because RightScale has delivered cloud management support for OpenStack-based private and hybrid … Continue reading

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Twitter Aims For 100% Uptime Based On Movement From Ruby To Java

Twitter is well on its way toward its goal of remaining fully accessible 24/7 all over the world. In a blog post the day after the 2012 presidential election, Mazen Rawashdeh, VP of Infrastructure Operations Engineering, remarked that the election … Continue reading

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Talend Releases Version 5.2 With Hadoop Big Data Profiling And NoSQL Integration

Talend, the open source data integration company, announced the release of version 5.2 of its Open Studio data integration and data management platform on Monday. The release features prominent enhancements such as Hadoop Big data profiling and support for well … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Enhances Elastic Beanstalk & EBS IOPS

This week, Amazon Web Services announced two significant enhancements to its PaaS platform Elastic Beanstalk in the form of support for Ruby and Virtual Private Clouds. Elastic Beanstalk now supports application development in Ruby in addition to Java, PHP, Python … Continue reading

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