Last month, I attended the Esri International User Conference in San Diego and was introduced to the esoteric world where data and mapping collide. Esri is a pioneer in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) space, and seeing how users put their software to use is pretty eye opening. As a journalist, one of the more…
Startup: Platform9 What they do: Provide a cloud service that transforms servers into an agile, self-service private cloud. Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA CEO: Sirish Raghuram, who previously was an early engineer at VMware, where he held technical and management leadership roles and helped ship multiple vSphere products. Founded: 2013 Funding: Earlier today, Platform9 announced its Series…
From “Fast Data” to visualization software to tools used to track “Social Whales,” the startups in the Big Data 50 have it covered. The 50 startups in the Big Data 50 are an impressive lot. In fact, the Big Data space in general is so hot that you might start worrying about it overheating…
Startup: Addvocate What they do: Provide a platform that website owners can use to track their own website against their competition, with data points collected from dozens of the top analytics sources. Headquarters: San Francisco, CA CEO: Marcus Nelson, who formerly served as head of social media at Salesforce.com. Founded: 2012 Funding: $2M Series A…
Startup: HeatSync What they do: Provide a platform that website owners can use to track their own website against their competition, with data points collected from dozens of the top analytics sources. Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA CEO: Jack Shenon Founded: 2013 Funding: Currently bootstrapped with $500K of funding. What I like about them: HeatSync brings…
Startup: Anuta Networks What they do: Enable the delivery of network services in existing infrastructures; in other words, they deliver SDN functionality to legacy environments. Headquarters: Milpitas, CA CEO: Chandu Guntakala. Before founding Anuta Networks, Guntakala co-founded Jahi Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in 2004. Founded: 2010 Funding: Currently self-funded. What I like about…
Update: Voting for the top 10 Big Data startups has closed, and the roundup featuring the 10 finalists is now available on CIO.com. Update #2: A more comprehensive and more recent list of Big Data startups is available in my Big Data 50 2014 report. Check it out! The Big Data space is heating up, and…
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