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October 9th, 201211 AM PST/ 2 PM ESTAttend this Webcast to hear customer stories and discover how the Oracle Database Appliance: * Increases ROI by reducing capital and operational expenses * Frees IT staff by reducing deployment and management time from weeks to hours * Takes the worry out of supporting mission critical application workloads
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IDC White Paper: Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization and Consolidation in Midsized Firms with Network Storage
The twin concepts of virtualization and consolidation in IT environments are increasingly being applied by midsized firms to improve performance and gain efficiency. Improvement in the coordination of resources can result in greater competitiveness and lower costs.
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Wikibon ROI Study: Business Case for Unified Storage Consolidation for Microsoft Windows Installations
Unified storage is infrastructure that supports multiple types of storage within a single management framework.
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Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centers for Consolidation
This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing the physical infrastructure in the receiving data center. This approach allows for shorter timelines and high efficiency while avoiding the commonly expected difficulties and complexities often experienced with consolidation projects.
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Best Practices for Cloud-Based Information Governance
This white paper explores the latest ideas on evaluating governance in cloud deployment. It offers best practices for cloud-based information governance and outlines solutions for eDiscovery, archiving and records management, social media and electronic communication governance, and data protection.
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JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds
Big Data: Investments Flow into the Next Big Thing
By Dick Weisinger, on January 4th, 2012Analysts seem to agree that the stars are aligning for Big Data. Nearly every end-of-year list of predictions for the direction of IT in 2012 includes Big Data.
James Kobielus, Forrester analyst, wrote on his blog that “Big data was inescapable in 2011. Without a doubt, it was the paramount banner story in data management, advanced analytics, and business intelligence (BI). The hype has been relentless, but it’s been driven by substantial innovations on many fronts.”
In presentations both Gartner Vice President David Cearley and Gartner analyst David Cappucio identified Big Data as one of the top 10 strategic trends for IT in 2012.
Information Management magazine reports general agreement among analysts like Thomas Davenport. The article reports that ”Big data analytics will top all other areas of growth in analytics during 2012 due to the rapid expansion of social, mobile, location and transaction-based data taken in by various industries, according to predictions from the International Institute for Analytics.”
Ken Vander Wal, CISA, CPA, international president of ISACA said that “Big Data is going to evolve out of its ’shiny new object’ status in 2012. IT leaders will need to figure out how to coax order out of the chaos from all those zeroes and ones, as well as optimize ROI and manage data privacy.”
Patti Prarie, CEO of Brighter Planet, wrote on the Huffington Post said that Big Data Analytics will be a hot trend in 2012, explaining that “As the volume of enterprise data sky-rockets, an industry is growing up around using this flood of information to help companies operate more efficiently and sustainably. Companies increasingly will be deploying sophisticated software as a key component of their sustainability strategy.”
Hot technologies attract money and interest from venture capitalists. It’s no different now with what’s happening in the area of Big Data.
In December, in an article on IT investment areas for 2012, writer Clint Boulton identified Big Data as a ”market too that is ripe for investment and acquisition.”
The New York Times reports Peter Goldmacher, an analyst and managing director at Cowen & Company as saying that “Venture capital is absolutely foaming at the mouth over big data. The volume of data being created now is not 10 times bigger, it is like a thousand times bigger.”
Paul Sloan executive editor at C|Net writes that “Big data was a big term in 2011 and, as fuzzy as it sounds, it represents a monstrous opportunity for companies beyond the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn. Anyone using an app-loaded smartphone is generating data that can be mined and made useful.”
Financial analysts identify IBM as a strong player because of their trove of Big Data technologies. Online investment site seekingalpha writes that IBM “is at the center of the big data trend and is going to capitalize on the information revolution better than anyone… Big data is a high margin business.” IBM has a big stake in Big Data, but more likely, startups are where most of the new Big Data action will happen.
Accel Partners have set up a $100 million venture fund for investments called the Big Data fund. The Wall Street Journal reports that the fund ”will focus on infrastructure, storage, security and enterprise applications, all the way up to business intelligence, mobile apps, financial trading apps and more.”
Mu Sigma, foe example, an Indian big data, analytics and decision support services for global enterprise customers company, secured a $108 million investment round led by General Atlantic.
Other examples of startups starting to receive money include PlaceIQ and GridGain.
The Wall Street Journal reports that PlaceIQ, a stealthy geolocation and big data company that tracks where smartphone users are and what they might be doing, raised $4.2 million in venture funds. In December, startup GridGain, a company specializing in high performance cloud computing and real time big data processing received a $2.5 million Series A round of financing led by RTP Ventures.
The trend of Big Data investments is likely to pick up later in the year.January 4th, 2012 | Category: Big Data3 comments to Big Data: Investments Flow into the Next Big Thing
[...] years, opening a lot of opportunities for new startups and business ideas. Big Data companies like Mu Sigma, has been able to secure more than $100 million in a recent investment round, a quantity not so common for non business-to-consumer [...]
[...] years, opening a lot of opportunities for new startups and business ideas. Big Data companies like Mu Sigma, has been able to secure more than $100 million in a recent investment round, a quantity not so common for non business-to-consumer [...]
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New York Venture Capital Firms
Venture capitalists love New York State small businesses. If your New York small business is short on resources, take a look at our list of NY venture capital investors.
Want to get in touch with New York venture capital firms? Browse our list of venture capital firms in New York.
- Abbott Capital Management, LLC
- Advantage Capital Partners
- Apax Partners, Inc.
- ARCH Venture Partners
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Braemar Energy Ventures
- Cross Atlantic Partners, Inc.
- CW Group, Inc
- DFJ Gotham
- Dolphin Equity Partners
- Entrepia Ventures, Inc.
- Euclid SR Partners
- ff Venture Capital - A well-known New York seed-stage venture capital firm, ffVC was founded in 1999. It is one of the oldest early-stage investors in New York, with over 155 investments in over 50 companies (as of June 30, 2012). Their strategy is to be the institutional-quality investor in the Seed/Series A space by identifying and helping to build startups that can be the low cost, disruptive player in their industry. Among their most successful exits are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007).
- FTVENTURES
- Gefinor Ventures Management Inc.
- Harbert Management Corporation
- IBM Venture Capital Group
- Impact Venture Partners
- INVESCO Private Capital
- JEGI Capital L.L.C.
- JK&B Capital
- KBL Healthcare Ventures
- L Capital Management
- Lancet Capital
- Ledra Capital
- Milestone Venture Partners
- Mitsui Global Investment
- Morgan Stanley Venture Partners
- NEC USA, Inc.
- Needham Capital Partners
- NextPoint Partners, L.P.
- New York State Small Business Technology Investment Fund
- Northwood Ventures
- Pennell Venture Partners, L.L.C.
- Pitango Venture Capital
- Psilos Group Man
- Radius Ventures, L.L.C.
- Rock Maple Ventures
- RRE Ventures
- Softbank Capital
- Sprout Group
- Thoma Cressey Equity Partners
- Topspin Partners, L.P.
- Trillium Capital Partners
- VantagePoint Venture Partners
- Venrock Associates
- Venture Capital Fund of America/VCFA Group
- Warburg Pincus
- Willowridge Incorporated
We are constantly updating our list of New York venture capital firms. If we are missing a local venture capital firm, please let us know.
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