Why In-Q-Tel investment is a ‘stamp of approval’ for enterprise startups

In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm, is treated with reverence by business software providers.

Big Data startup Platfora pulls in $20M to ‘make Hadoop amazing’

Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with its flagship product to "unleash the potential of Hadoop," has raised its second round of funding.

‘Big data’ startup Platfora wants to unleash the potential of Hadoop

Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed "big data" startup, unveiled the product it has been baking for over a year at Strata, a data-focussed conference today.

How ready are you for big data?

Big data has been the subject of a lot of hype lately. But that doesn’t mean it’s a fad; this movement is certainly here to stay. It is essentially the business of how we deal with the volume, variety, and …

Hadoop data-management provider Platfora raises $5.7M months after launch

Platfora, a data management software provider based on Hadoop, announced on Thursday it has raised $5.7 million from Andreessen-Horowitz just a few months after the company was founded.

Hadoop is an open-source data-management software framework. It’s useful for companies that …