Good Data Raises $2.5 Million For Cloud-Based Analytics

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.3] Czech startup Good Data has raised $2.5 million in Series C funding from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and other undisclosed investors. This brings the startup's total financing to $7 million. in addition, Tim O'Reilly, who is an investor in Good Data, has joined the startup's board. Good Data, which raised $2.5 million earlier this year from Marc Andreessen and others, was founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek. Good Data offers a cloud-based data analytics solution that is more cost-effective than similar products offered by IBM, SAP and Oracle. The startup launched a beta program earlier this year which drew over 2,000 customers.

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LinkedIn Flying High With 50 Million Business Users

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.2] LinkedIn has hit 50 million users, according to a blog post today, growing from 45 million users two months ago. And according to the latest comScore data, LinkedIn is steadily growing in terms of unique visitors. For September, LinkedIn had 9 million unique visitors in the U.S. compared to 8.7 million unique visitors in August. But it appears that LinkedIn's growth is mainly attributed to a burgeoning international user base. Worldwide, LinkedIn grew from 18 million unique visitors in July to 20 million unique visitors in August. The network's CEO, Jeff Weiner, said in the post that half of LinkedIn's membership is international, with 11 million users in Europe and 3 million users in India, which is seeing the fastest rate of adoption of LinkedIn. Weiner added that it took just 12 days for the network to accumulate the latest million users.

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Jitterbit Releases Version 3.0 Of Its Open Source Data Integration Platform

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Jitterbit, a open source data and application integration company, has launched the 3.0 release of its product. The new release includes the debut of the ‘MX’ Enterprise version of Jitterbit, which the company says is designed for especially large enterprise customers. MX joins the normal Enterprise version (which should be suitable for most businesses), as well as the Jitterbit Community product, which is available for free but doesn’t come with support.

In layman’s terms, Jitterbit helps applications and systems that wouldn’t normally be able to ‘talk’ to each other do just that, and it also helps automate some of the more tedious processes involved in data management, like transferring data between applications. Users map out which fields in various applications are linked, and then Jitterbit automatically handles the synchronization regardless of which protocol is being used.

The new version adds support for use by multiple users and across multiple servers simultaneously. It also includes a plug-in manager, which allows users to leverage the library of plugins that have been built by the community (examples include plugins that add encryption schemes or can scrape data from webpages). Finally, the company says that the application has significant performance boosts, as well as added support for JDBC-based systems and HTTP Endpoints.

Jitterbit launched its 2.0 release back in August 2008, introducing a drag-and-drop interface and a new business model that charges customers for a “rock-solid” version of the product that includes support (anyone is free to try out the ‘bleeding edge’ version on their own for free, but Jitterbit won’t provide support for it). Since then things have been going quite well for the company: Director of Online Marketing Daniel Oxenburgh says Jitterbit is currently on track to double the new customers it will acquire this year versus last year. Notable clients include NASA and Continental Airlines.

Competitors to Jitterbit include SnapLogic and Talend, which raised $12 million earlier this year.

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Cisco Bets Big On Mobile Data Networks With $2.9 Billion Purchase Of Starent Networks

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.1] Cisco is on a buying spree this month. This morning it announced a $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile networking infrastructure provider Starent Networks, which follows on the heels of another $3 billion acquisition announcement two weeks go for Two weeks ago it announced the $3 billion acquisition of video video-conferencing company Tandberg. You add $3 billion here and $3 billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money. Cisco has always been a large acquirer, and the fact that it is opening its purse strings again is a good sign for tech M&A overall. But these are relatively large bets for Cisco, which needs to keep at the forefront of networking technologies. The Starent acquisition gives it a strong play in mobile data networks as carriers migrate to 3G and 4G platforms. Broadband is moving to mobile, and Cisco needs to be there.

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Ellison Frenemy Benioff Takes The Stage At Oracle OpenWorld

Custom HTML Code at Top [Sample No.3] Salesforce.com CEO and founder Marc Benioff took the stage today at Oracle OpenWorld. The fact that Benioff is making an appearance is very strange considering Benioff and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison have been at odds over the past year. They are the perfect Frenemies. Taking the stage with Benioff is Michael Dell, which isn't surprising considering the recent partnership between Dell computers and Salesforce.com. Benioff and Ellison have an interesting past. Benioff worked at Oracle for some years and Ellison was one of the first investors as Salesforce, which Benioff highlighted in his speech. Benioff enumerated on the power of cloud computing, saying that it is more elastic, scalable and generally easier for companies to use. Salesforce currently has 63,200 paying customers.

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Why Google Wave sucks, and why it doesn’t matter

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Now that Google Wave is trickling out into the water supply, I’ve been sucked into “playing” with it alongside FriendFeed, Yammer, Skype, and email. Erick Schonfeld insists on discussing a project we’re readying, and unfortunately I’m able to sign in from my iPhone. The FriendFeed direct message interface is not exposed on the iPhone version, and Skype makes me feel stupid for entering a ping and then watching my battery indicator drop while waiting for some signs of life. In this environment Wave suddenly is acceptably lousy.

I’m down at Oracle’s OpenWorld event, which lands like Normandy on Howard Street with a massive tent that this year has proved helpful in the rainstorm hitting full force. The occasion was Salesforce boss Marc Benioff’s quasi-keynote in a small theater just off the main Moscone hub. I caught up with Marc after the presentation at the Salesforce booth, a massive presence punctuated by a giveaway of two SmartCars or equivalent. As Marc suggested, they were one of three exciting things at this year’s conference.

The first was the strange Scott McNealy/Larry Ellsion co-keynote on Sunday night, a delayed-on-account-of the-EU swan song by McNealy that picked up midsentence from his first take at JavaOne in June. Jonathan Schwartz was nowhere to be seen, though his number 2 John Fowler was given a visible role in the proceedings. Scott seemed determined to thread the needle of continuity with the old Sun vibe, but even Ellison’s rosy words of support for MySQL and IBM badmouthing in favor of Sun hardware did little to alter the truth that Sun survives only in its products but not the ideas that might have been coming.

Ellison made it clear in recent days that he’s still stuck on his who-cares-about-cloud-computing schtick, but Benioff for one thinks he’s missing the obvious. While Oracle allowed Salesforce to team up with Michael Dell in this little alternate conference within a conference, Benioff seemed happy to promote being right about the cloud in the midst of the lion’s den. From my vantage point at the back of the theater, there was a small hemorrhage of attendees when Facebook/Twitter integration with its Call Center and CRM services were demoed. But if 10% left, that meant 90% got a message 180 degrees from the show-wide Oracle Fusion meme, Marc’s third exciting theme.

So it will go with Google Wave, as it begins to penetrate the legacy environements of Gmail, Gchat, and Apps. Right now it’s a red-haired step child of both the cloud and the stream, pretty much useless in both courts. The more that user feedback intrudes, the more Wave will devolve to an email clone. But if Google resists that impulse, something big is likely to happen. This is not about user experience; it’s a war for control of the Google realtime platform, and the central mechansim to slow down Facebook and Twitter. As such, they need to fail, and fail fast â€" and then start integrating with or absorbing Gmail and Apps.

They can look no further than Yammer for tips; the Twitter enterprise clone has rapidly expanded its rich clients on the desktop and the iPhone to provide push notification at a precisely the time we need it. In particular the iPhone app is suddenly more useful than email, with new messages indicated on the icon as they are received (42 at the moment) and direct messages popping up in a Push notification. Email has too much flow and not enough filtering to avoid constant interruptions by needy PR and the like, and forget about Twitter or even FriendFeed in their current firehose status.

Wave could grab this away from Yammer with little trouble, but the big problem is one of focus. The prize is stream control, the metering of stream dynamics and some sort of pass-off to a stream feed that can be consumed after the high order Yammer-type business flow is absorbed. For now, Wave can co-exist with FriendFeed/Facebook, and ignore Twitter and email. That leaves Skype and Google Docs traffic, which suggests that Gmail and Gchat integrate Waves as a new datatype to be launched into once pressing messages are triaged.

A strategy begins to emerge: high priority messages, Wave document discussion, stream maintenance, and email/presence monitoring. Using the Oracle/Cloud example, start pilot cloud projects, task IT with building hybrid on-premise “private/public” clouds, then negotiate with hosting and virtualization layers as M&A activity drives the move to cloud consolidation.

Wave sucks in its implementation, in its stonewalling of our need for priority stream filtering, in its confusion about its entry point into Google, or vice versa. But that will get sorted out by brute force, more likely by Facebook and FriendFeed integration, and whatever Twitter can buy in house to avoid cannibalization by Track invaders from their increasingly quarantined thrid party vendors. And Microsoft and Apple loom to mop up if Google slips too much or dithers too long, which probably means they won’t Wave may suck, but it won’t matter for long.

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Dell and Salesforce.com Team Up to Offer a Cloud Solution For SMB’s

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If you disagreed with the views Larry Ellison expressed a few weeks ago regarding cloud computing and its future, you weren’t alone. Today, banking on the future success of cloud computing, Dell and Salesforce.com announced a new line of cloud based solutions for small and medium sized businesses to enhance the effectiveness of customer relationship management applications.

This new Dell-Salesforce.com solution will integrate Salesforce.com’s CRM applications with Dell’s Integration Services in order to help solve critical integration issues between applications; thus reducing IT costs for small and medium sized businesses. These new solutions were built and tested in house by the IBM small and medium sized business unit and will include a cloud-based contact management application to store and manage contacts, track customers, and run activity reports, among other processes.

Furthermore, these new solutions offer data cleansing and migration tools, and a “Virtual Integration Appliance,” which is used “to deploy integration appliance functionality on any hardware in their virtualized environment.”

The move to the cloud is done through their Cloud Integration Service, which helps to integrate Salesforce.com tools with other cloud applications.

More information regarding these solutions can be found here.

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