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Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

Thoughts on MongoDB’s Humongous $150M Round

By Dave Kellogg on October 21, 2013

Two weeks ago MongoDB, formerly known as 10gen, announced a massive $150M funding round said to be the largest in the history of databases lead by Fidelity, Altimeter, and Salesforce.com with participation from existing investors Intel, NEA, Red Hat, and Sequoia.  This brings the total capital raised by MongoDB to $231M, making it the best-funded database / big […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Database, ibm, Ingres, MongoDB, NoSQL, Open source, sequoia, Venture Capital | 4 Responses

Big data ascends the learning curve

Big data ascends the learning curve

By Phil Wainewright on April 10, 2013

With several big data-themed events coming up this month — among them the global multi-city Big Data Week series — the level of social media chatter around this topic is likely to surge. One vendor that’s well placed to track that buzz is DataSift, whose stock-in-trade is analyzing Twitter data to identify trends. In preparation […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BigData, hadoop, ibm, MongoDB, SAP AG, Tim Barker, Twitter | 4 Responses

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06

By Dennis Moore on July 6, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Dell is buying Quest Software.  The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one involving resale (in the EU) of “used” software downloaded over the Internet.  This could have wide-ranging impact on all digital media, not just software. There are still a lot […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged .NET, 10gen, ABAP, adobe, Amazon, android, Apache, apple, Ariba, Big Data, Cassandra, citrix, Cloud, Cloudera, Dell, google, hadoop, HANA, Hitachi, Hortonworks, ibm, Infor, Informatica, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, Lucene, MapR, microsoft, MongoDB, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, Quest, Red Hat, RIM, samsung, sap, Solr, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, workday, Yahoo

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010

Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has  racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD

Don’t Believe the Hype, Come to NoSQL EU April 20-22

Don’t Believe the Hype, Come to NoSQL EU April 20-22

By James Governor on April 14, 2010

One of the hottest topics in software development right now is what is being called NoSQL. What is that? I kind of like the definition from no-sqldatabase.org
NoSQL databases mostly address some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontal scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 10gen, Database, MongoDB, Neo Technology, NoSQL, Open source, Rackspace

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