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Kubernetes co-developers aim to make the container orchestration software ‘boring’
Kubernetes, the orchestrator for the freestanding software operating environments called containers, has been described as the next Linux — meaning that it will soon be so ubiquitous that no one will even be aware that it’s there. That suits Craig McLuckie (pictured, right) and Joe Beda (left) just fine. The two VMware Inc. executives were ...
Illumio joins security unicorn club with $225M late-stage investment
In another sign of investors’ eagerness to buy into the surging interest in zero-trust security, Illumio Inc. said it raised $225 million in a new late-stage round that carries a $2.75 billion “unicorn” valuation. The Series F round was led by Thoma Bravo LLC with participation by Franklin Templeton Financial Services Corp. and Owl Rock ...
Transmit Security raises record $543M funding round to rid the world of passwords
Transmit Security Ltd., the newest entrant in the race to rid the world of passwords, early today said it has raised a record-setting $543 million funding round that values the company at $2.2 billion and marks what it says is the largest Series A funding of any cybersecurity company in history. The company, which was ...
Neo4j’s $325M funding round lifts fortunes of graph database industry
In a major shot in the arm for the graph database industry, market leader Neo4j Inc. today announced it has raised $325 million in what it says is the largest-ever venture capital round for a private database company. The Series F venture capital round brings its total funding to $515 million and bestows upon it ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW CLOUD STARTUPS
What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom
Cockroach Labs Inc. launched an enterprise version of the open-source CockroachDB distributed database six years ago at a time when “all companies wanted to run the database themselves,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Spencer Kimball. The business was steady, but like many firms trying to commercialize open-source software, the company had to cope with pricing ...
VMware extends zero-trust security options to its global points of presence
VMware Inc. is extending its offerings in the white-hot Secure Access Service Edge arena to the farthest reaches of corporate networks with the announcement of new support for edge devices delivered across a constellation of global points of presence. VMware Cloud Web Security, which is being launched today, is a cloud-hosted service that extends the ...
Dell touts simplification in broad upgrade of VxRail hyperconverged line
Dell Technologies Inc. is beefing up its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and adding an option for users to incorporate external third-party storage with a series of announcements tonight. The highlight of the multipart announcement is to “simplify operations and deployment from day zero through day two,” said Nancy Hurley, senior manager of program management for Dell’s ...
Surprise growth in data center business propels VMware past earnings estimates
VMware Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report highlighted both the progress the company is making in moving to a subscription sales model and the surprising resilience of corporate data centers. Revenues of $2.99 billion were better than analysts’ $2.95 billion estimates and earnings per share of $1.76 also beat estimates by four cents. Neither figure was ...
Okta reports strong growth, citing synergies from Auth0 acquisition
Okta Inc. today reported strong revenue and profit growth in its first fiscal quarter, highlighted by a 52% increase in its subscription backlog, but the identity and access management company issued mixed guidance for the second quarter and full year. Revenue for both is expected to come in ahead of estimates but forecast earnings-per-share is below ...
Databricks releases data-sharing protocol to open source
Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today to launch a new open-source project called Delta Sharing that provides an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, regardless of the platform on which the data resides. The company also announced reliability, governance and scalability enhancements to its “lakehouse,” the term it uses ...