Intelligence agencies are about to get a boost in their data analytics savvy now that In-Q-Tel has formed a partnership with RedOwl Analytics, which finds anomalies in large piles of data. Read more »
Bina Technologies, a company aiming to make genome processing faster and cheaper, has accepted $1.75 million for its Series B round, which included $6.25 million from Sierra Ventures. Behind the new… Read more »
Bitly found a new CEO in Mark Josephson, who was an executive at Patch. Josephson wants to keep the company moving beyond just shortening links and toward providing data to publishers… Read more »
Zendesk has put in place many features and networking upgrades to put a stop to cyberattacks, following the one that hit it earlier this year. Read more »
Diablo Technologies has designed a system for packing flash into servers’ memory slots, so data can get written quickly. It’s a fresh approach that could pick up the way PCIe flash… Read more »
NASA divisions have signed up for cloud services without getting certain approvals and have left some data less secure than federal officials would like, according to a new report. Read more »
Companies with cloud-computing services now have a market capitalization in excess of $100 billion. Now Bessemer Venture Partners has an index to keep on top of the top publicly traded cloud dogs. Read more »
6fusion just released a tool for comparing the cost and performance of deploying workloads on Amazon (s amzn) Web Services with other infrastructure. It uses a common denominator to make fair… Read more »
Security has been one issue inhibiting cloud adoption, and the hubbub about PRISM only seems to have made it a bigger concern. That’s why we’ll talk about cloud security at Structure:Europe… Read more »
Dropbox’s new Datastore API does something similar to what a New York startup does. But little NimbusBase is unperturbed, aiming to become a more vendor-neutral backend for application data. Read more »