A Breakthrough in Database Technology. PiCloud Launches Serverless Computing Platform To The Public. Startup PiCloud is launching its platform to the public that allows for batch processing, high performance computing and scientific computing applications. PiCloud, which was incubated at Lightspeed Ventures, claims to “obviates servers,” and enables developers, scientists and engineers to set up applications on the cloud easily.
The PiCloud platform aims to simplify cloud computing through three actions. Cloud.call runs your custom function on the cloud, cloud.result retrieves the return value of your function and cloud.map maps your function to multiple arguments. The startup’s library, which supports the Python code, extracts the byte code, source code, and data necessary to move users’ computation to the cloud. PiCloud also offers a dashboard to manage submitted jobs and analyze usage. Starfish - ridiculously easy distributed programming with Ruby. MapReduce for Ruby on Rails?! – Kevin Chiu. Building Your Own Google - Forbes.com. Structure 2010 - The Quest for Exascale Computing Power.
Data Management Virtualization Startup Actifio Raises $8 Million. Actifio, a company that specializes in data management virtualization solutions, this morning announced that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding in a round led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. With the funds, Actifio intends to ramp up sales and marketing efforts. Actifio isn’t giving much detail on how its technology works, or exactly what it does just yet, but here’s the formal pitch: Actifio delivers a next-generation data management solution with radical simplicity, unprecedented agility and up to an order of magnitude lower cost.
Based on Data Management Virtualization (DMV) technology, Actifio transforms individual silos of point tools into a unified solution using efficient pipelined management across the data lifecycle.The company’s patent-pending DMV technology delivers unified data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity across the data lifecycle for virtual and physical IT environments.