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TechCrunchIT  4 hours ago:

Blue Coat Buys Intel-Backed Solera Networks To Beef Up In Big Data, Encrypted Data Security -

Web security provider Blue Coat Systems -- itself acquired in a $1.3 billion deal by Thoma Bravo at the end of December 2011 -- is making an acquisition today: it's buying Solera Networks, a specialist in big data security, for an undisclosed sum (although we have reached out to the company to ask).
TechCrunchIT  15 hours ago:

Basho Co-Founder Raises $3M To Launch Orchestrate.io, A Twilio For Databases -

Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications.
TechCrunchIT  17 hours ago:

Producteev's Social Task Manager Now Free And Enterprise-Ready As It Preps For Full Jive Integration Later This Year -

In November, Jive Software acquired Bay Area cloud-based, collaborative task manager, Producteev, to boost its social business platform.
TechCrunchIT  2 days ago:

Alteryx Raises $12M For Data Analytics Platform That Shapes Data Into Apps -

Alteryx has raised $12 million for its business intelligence service designed for data analysts to build tools out of their own internal data and that from third parties.
TechCrunchIT  3 days ago:

What Sets The Google Cloud Platform Apart From The Rest -

There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O.
TechCrunchIT  5 days ago:

Backupify Is Phasing Out Free Consumer Products; Drops Support For Facebook Personal Profiles, Blogger, Picassa And Flickr -

Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we'd heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on paid services for enterprise customers.
TechCrunchIT  5 days ago:

Big Data Visualization Goes Public: Tableau Software Raises $254M As Shares Pop 58%; Fellow Enterprise IPO Hopeful Marketo Raises $85M -

The march of the enterprise software IPOs continues, with not one but two companies debuting on New York stock exchanges today.
TechCrunchIT  6 days ago:

Tableau Software To Open Trading On The NYSE At $31 Per Share With Market Symbol “DATA” -

Data visualization software company Tableau Software, going by the symbol "DATA," will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at $31 per share, up from earlier today when the company said it would trade in the $28 to $30 range.
TechCrunchIT  6 days ago:

“In The Studio,” VMware's Parth Shah Helps Explain The World Of Enterprise IT -

This is the final episode of my show on TCTV, "In The Studio." The final guest is a good friend, Parth Shah (no relation), an engineer with VMware, and before that, at Yahoo! Parth combines the precision of CMU CS graduate's take on web development with a hacker mentality, and has the rare skill of being able to explain some of the most complex enterprise IT concepts to those who don't have as much context -- such as me! In this short conversation, Parth shares with us his work at VMware and his generalized thoughts on how the enterprise stack is being disrupted today.
TechCrunchIT  6 days ago:

An Offer You Can't Refuse: Bitcoin Startup BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund (The VC Run By The PayPal Mafia) -

BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million.