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Cloudera Lands $40 Million From Ignition, Accel Launches $100 Million Big Data Fund

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 8, 2011 at 5:03 am PT

As Hadoop World gets underway in New York today, Cloudera, the start-up company that is putting on the event, has landed a big new investor.

Hadoop Start-Up Cloudera Teams Up With Storage Player NetApp

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 7, 2011 at 4:59 am PT

Cloudera, the company best known for building a business around the open source big-data platform Hadoop, has teamed up with storage concern NetApp.

Former Blue Nile Execs Raise $43 Million to Nurture Their New Baby, Zulily

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 10, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Zulily, an 18-month-old site aimed at mothers looking for bargains on clothing and accessories for babies and kids, closed a third round of venture capital today, totaling $43 million.

Box Expands Mobile Offerings, Names Yahoo’s Chris Yeh as VP of Platforms

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 14, 2011 at 7:49 am PT

The fast-moving, enterprise-focused file-sharing service makes a big mobile push and makes a key hire from Yahoo to manage developer relations.

Web Start-Ups Get Upper Hand Over Investors

Pui-Wing Tam and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

As venture capitalists scramble to get a piece of Silicon Valley’s new Web boom, entrepreneurs like Aaron Levie are finding they have the upper hand. Mr. Levie, 26 years old, founded online storage provider Box.net in 2005. While his 140-person Palo Alto, Calif., company has money in the bank, Mr. Levie saw the Web investing environment heat up recently, driven by interest in fast-growing start-ups such as Facebook Inc. and Zynga Inc.

Fusion-io, Star of Enterprise Storage, Files for an IPO, Cites Facebook Relationship

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 9, 2011 at 7:08 am PT

Storage star Fusion-io has filed for an IPO. Its flash memory-based technology is the secret sauce in Facebook’s data centers.

Fusion-io Adds Supermicro as Partner, Expands With IBM

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 1, 2011 at 5:29 am PT

Having gotten its flash-memory based technology into servers from the top three server vendors, Fusion-io cuts a deal with a white-box manufacturer, while expanding its offerings with Big Blue.

Box.net, The File Sharing and Collaboration Cloud For Businesses, Raises $48 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 24, 2011 at 5:15 am PT

Box.net, the cloud-based collboration and file-sharing service launched a in a dorm room, has landed a big round of venture capital funding–and has also raised some debt.

Start-Up Fusion-io Breaks EMC's "Record" on Enterprise Flash

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 25, 2011 at 7:59 am PT

When not stuffing cars at an event in New York last week, EMC executives bragged that the company had sold more flash memory to enterprise customers than any other company. They forgot to check with start-up Fusion-io.

Flash Storage Startup Fusion-io Speeds Up Trading At Credit Suisse

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 7, 2010 at 7:59 am PT

Keep a close eye on Fusion-io. Its flash-memory based storage technology is quietly winning lots of business in data centers around the world. I say quietly, because very often the companies using it don’t like to broadcast that fact to the world. One who is willing is Credit Suisse, though it won’t say much.