Cloudera cofounder Mike Olson steps down as CEO, former ArcSight head steps up

Big data startup has had an executive shakeup, with its CEO stepping down to make way for former ArcSight CEO Tom Reilly.

CloudByte cooks up $4M for software-defined storage

Showing VCs are more than willing to throw money at buzzword-filled startups, software-defined storage startup CloudByte has raised $4 million in new funds.

General Electric joins the ‘big data’ party

GE just announced a new "big-data" and analytics platform it calls “Predictivity," and it has some big partners on board to give it reach.

Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says

Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet."

CareCloud raises $20M to vanquish ‘walking dead’ and ‘dinosaurs’ of health IT

CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software that helps doctors improve patient care, increase collections, and streamline operations. It's the latest big deal in a "record year" for digital health.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander: PRISM saved us 50 times

"Thank you for working to protect America," Rep. Rogers said. "You're doing a very difficult job -- thank you on behalf of America."

SendGrid launches email marketing service that undercuts MailChimp & Constant Contact

Email infrastructure business SendGrid takes a dive into new waters with its own email marketing service, which will challenge Constant Contact and MailChimp.

Following 243 percent growth, cloud-backup startup Zetta.net grabs $8M

Enterprise cloud-backup provider Zetta.net has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services.

Microsoft doubles speech recognition speed while improving accuracy

I'm sure you're happy to know that deep neural networks perform significantly better than shallow networks. But you might be thrilled to learn that Microsoft has doubled the speed at which it can translate what you say into text ... while also improving accuracy.

RelSci racks up $30M for its digital database of the world’s most influential people

Relationship Science has amassed an online Rolodex with profiles of the world's "top decision-makers," and people are willing to spend thousands of dollars a year for access.

Cloudflare: 150B pageviews/month, 30GB of log data/minute, and more surfers than Facebook

"It's like a giant game of Risk," Prince says as he talks about trying to put servers in Turkey, which is hard, and settling for Bulgaria, which is the gateway to the country.

Google is working on new tech to eliminate all child porn on the Web

Search and mobile superpower Google is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from the Web.

‘Caliente’ startup GoodData raises $22M from Latin America’s largest enterprise company

Big data company GoodData has raised $22 million from Latin America's largest enterprise software company TOTVS and entered into an exclusive partnership.

Eyeing exit strategies, RingCentral names former WebEx bigwig David Berman president

Cloud phone systems biz RingCentral has named former WebEx bigshot David Berman as its new president. Berman will likely help the company look at opportunities like being acquired or going public.

Study of 61K Amazon Web Services instances finds 23K should improve their security

A new study by by cloud optimization company Newvem checked 61,545 Amazon Web Services instances which total a yearly spend of over $157 million. The good news is that cloud users are getting much more savvy about security, utilization, and optimization.

But there's still room to improve -- a lot of room.

Tibco acquires Streambase to bring real-time analytics tech to Wall Street

Tibco today acquired Streambase to augment its analytics offering and appeal to the largest financial firms on Wall Street.