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• SDN start-up PLUMgrid opens up on OpenStack

  Supports more distributions of cloud framework; enhances software for microservices, visibility

• ​What you can learn from startups

  Digital guru, Steve Sammartino, on why big companies must learn from startups and the new players disrupting them.

• Do we really have to call them unicorns?

  Unicorns used to be special. Now there are so many of them that we should probably find a better name.

• The 15 biggest enterprise ‘unicorns’

  These are 15 of the highest valued enterprise software companies that have received venture funding but have not yet been sold or gone public.

• Australian and Chinese edutech companies establish partnerships

  Australian edutech startup, Inkerz, will tap into the Chinese market with it signing Memorandums of Understanding with Chinese companies, Shenzhen Yifang Digital Technology and Shijiazhuang Dazhong Network Communication.

• Machine learning algorithm to help VCs choose startups

  Machine learning API company, BigML, and Telefónica Open Future, the telecom’s global entrepreneurship and innovation network, have partnered to build an algorithm that helps venture capitalists decide which startups to invest in.

• Google Capital likes CrowdStrike for endpoint protection

  Next-gen endpoint protection vendor CrowdStrike has landed $100 million in new investments to beef up sales and engineering and continue its push to make anti-virus software obsolete.

• BlueChilli to open a new startup co-working space in Melbourne

  Startup accelerator BlueChilli is expanding with a new office that is to open in Melbourne on August 1.

• 12 hot application container startups

  The container revolution is upon us.

• Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself

  Mohit Aron has a tough act to follow: His previous startup, Nutanix, may be on the cusp of filing for an IPO that values the hyperconverged infrastructure company at $2.5 billion. But Aron is off to a good start with his new venture, Cohesity, which this week emerges from stealth mode with $70 million in venture funding, reference-able customers such as Tribune Media, and a focus on a potentially big market in converging the secondary storage that houses so much DevOps, data protection, analytics and other unstructured data.

• HP buying SDN company for NFV

  HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2184029/data-center/sdn-company-helps-build-clouds.html?nsdr=true">ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers</a>.

• Budget 2015: Tax breaks for small business, more support for startups

  Generous tax cuts for small businesses and removing obstacles to crowd-sourced equity funding for startups were two key measures announced in last night's federal budget.

• Billions of reasons to listen to these Unicorn startup founders

  Unicorns are all the rage these days, and we're not talking about the ones in fantasy stories or on your kids' bedspreads. The unicorns that people at events like last week's <a href="http://tiestartupcon.com/">TIE Startup Con</a> (formerly TIEcon East) are agog over are private companies with valuations of $1 billion or more, such as co-working office space provider <a href="https://www.wework.com/">WeWork</a> and data virtualization company <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2216568/security/actifio-debuts--introduces-new-data-protection-applications.html">Actifio</a>, whose founders talked shop during the opening panel at the Cambridge, Mass., get-together for entrepreneurs and investors.

• Australia an innovation laggard: Where we went wrong

  Australian innovation is stuck in a rut. Why did this happen and how can we pick up the pace?

• SDN start-up stitches together Clouds

  A software-defined networking start-up has emerged from stealth mode proposing accelerated deployment of applications and services spanning private, public or hybrid clouds.