Technology Research

Workday, HR software company, raised $637 million in its IPO. The company offered 22.75 million Class A shares at $28 per share, bringing market cap of about $4.5 billion. offering of 22,750,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $28.00 per share. The HR software market is forecast [...]

RainStor, a provider of database solutions for Big Data, has raised $12 million. The new funding will be used to accelerate engineering, expand a team and target marketing at Big Data market serving financial services, government, communications and other sectors driving the Big Data wave. RainStor provides a database, which enables the enterprise to manage [...]

Cloudant, provider of cloud solutions, has announced a custom development and strategic investment agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT), the venture arm of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Cloudant provides the Cloudant Data Layer as a service, a secure NoSQL-based cloud database service for developers of fast-growing Web and mobile applications. The U.S. government explores NoSQL technology to [...]

VMware has announced coming acquisition Nicira, Inc., a network virtualization company and provider of software-defined networking (SDN), for $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. This acquisition considerably strengthens VMware position in emerging software-defined datacenter marketplace. The idea of software-defined datacenter is to abstract hardware resources and pool resources [...]

The first National Science Foundation Regional Grants Conference of fiscal year 2012, will be hosted by The University of Texas at Austin on October 17-18, 2011. Key officials representing each NSF program directorate, administrative office, the NSF Office of International Science & Engineering, Office of General Counsel, and Office of the Inspector General will participate [...]