Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
August 12, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: August 12, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
MapR Technologies, Inc. is receiving an equity financing of $50 million, with funds going towards the company's continued growth and innovative technology. The $50 million equity financing was led by Future Fund, with participation from all existing investors, including Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Qualcomm Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.
Redis Labs and Intel announced they have collaboratively benchmarked a throughput of 3 million database operations/second at under 1 millisecond of latency, while generating over 1GB NVMe throughput, on a single server with Redis on Flash and Intel NVMe-based SSDs.