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Storage Vendor Tintri Lands $125M Round With Eye Toward IPO
Tintri, a company that develops storage solutions for virtual applications, announced a $125 million round today.
The company also indicated the next logical step is probably going to be an IPO in the first half of 2016 if market conditions are right.
The round was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk. Existing investors Insight Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures and NEA also… Read More
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Red Hat’s Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack Deployments
Red Hat today launched its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 into general availability. The distribution combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the latest OpenStack release (“Kilo”), and the company’s services for installing and managing OpenStack Clouds into a single product. Read More
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Workfront Raises $33M For Its Enterprise Work Management Service
Work management solution Workfront (previously known as AtTask) today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series E funding round led by growth equity firm JMI Equity, which also previously led the company’s $38 million Series D round last year. Greenspring Global Partners and Atlas Peak also participated in this round. The company has now raised a total of $95 million.… Read More
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GE Adds Infrastructure Services To Internet Of Things Platform
GE announced today that it was expanding its Predix Internet of Things platform to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
The IaaS market is dominated by Amazon Web Services with many others including Microsoft, Google and IBM vying for a piece of the action. GE hopes to differentiate itself from these companies by offering infrastructure services specifically tuned to the needs of… Read More
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Setting Sales Quotas Is Like Running A 10K Race
If you’ve ever run a 10K road race, you know that race organizers spend a lot of effort to have volunteers at every milepost telling runners what their time is. If you’re like me, you’ve probably sped up at each marker as you strove to beat your personal-best time. Microsoft Acquires Sales Contest Platform FantasySalesTeam, Will Integrate Into Dynamics CRM
Microsoft announced this morning the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Incent Games, the makers of a “sales gamification” platform called FantasySalesTeam. As the name implies, the company’s software allows sales organizations to run contests that are similar to those found in fantasy sports. Microsoft says today it will make this feature available to its own customers in… Read More
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How Businesses Are Leveraging Public Data To Reach Target Audiences
It’s no secret that the growth of publicly available data, or open data, is more prevalent than ever. From government databases, such as those aggregated by Data.gov, to data made available via tools such as Google Places API — the public has access to an overwhelming amount of information. Read More
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YC-Backed Ironclad Is An Automated Legal Assistant For Companies
Launching out of the latest YC class, Ironclad is an automated service to help companies draft, organize and execute common legal paperwork.
Expensive legal bills are often an unwelcome reality for young startups. Lawyers charge hundreds of dollars an hour, but are often a company’s only option for correctly preparing things like financial documents and sales contracts. Read More
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GitHub Raises $250M Series B Round To Take Risks
GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in this round. Read More
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Today Is Windows 10 Day
Ok, the new code is out for the first wave, and you are curious about Windows 10. Or at least we hope so, since we made you a video to go over the broad points of the new operating system from Microsoft. For a more scribbled-down-and-pedantic version of the above video, TechCrunch has you covered as well. Oddly enough, Microsoft is leading the current technology media cycle. That… Read More
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