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JupiterOne closes $19M round to flag vulnerable assets in the corporate network
JupiterOne Inc. today said that it has raised $19 million in funding to expand the feature set and adoption of its cybersecurity platform, which enables administrators to find potentially vulnerable systems inside the corporate network. JupiterOne started out as an internal project at LifeOmic Inc., an Indianapolis-based healthcare software firm. It was spun out as ...
Accenture to invest $3B in new 70,000-person Cloud First business unit
Consulting giant Accenture plc is investing $3 billion in forming a new business unit that will focus on helping enterprises adopt the public cloud. The Cloud First group, which Accenture announced today, comprises about 70,000 professionals who will work under the leadership of longtime executive Karthik Narain. Narain was previously responsible for Accenture’s technology services in North America. ...
WANdisco launches LiveData Migrator to move on-premises Hadoop data to the cloud
WANdisco PLC today launched LiveData Migrator, a product it says enables companies to move data in on-premises Hadoop clusters to the cloud with considerably less hassle than what the process normally involves. San Ramon, California-based WANdisco provides software tools for automating the migration of business records between systems and related data management tasks. Its customers include Advanced ...
Google details RigL algorithm for building more efficient neural networks
Google LLC today detailed RigL, an algorithm developed by its researchers that makes artificial intelligence models more hardware-efficient by shrinking them. Neural networks are made up of so-called artificial neurons, individual mathematical operations implemented in code, that are linked together by software connections. These connections are what enable the artificial neurons to pass data to ...
Palo Alto Networks intros AI-infused network appliances based on CloudGenix tech
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today introduced two new networking appliances for corporate offices and edge locations, along with artificial intelligence technology that it says can automatically fix technical issues. Publicly traded Palo Alto Networks is best known as a provider of cybersecurity products. Last year, the company jumped into the network management business by acquiring ...
Qualcomm targets the enterprise with 16-core Cloud AI 100 inference chip
Qualcomm Inc. today shared technical details about the Cloud AI 100, an artificial intelligence chip with which it hopes to seize upon the growing enterprise demand for machine learning hardware. Qualcomm’s entry into the AI chip segment could put more pressure on market leader Nvidia Corp. in a time when it also faces rising competition ...
Apple reveals speedy iPad Air with 11.8B-transistor chip and refreshed smartwatches
Today at its much-anticipated “Time Flies” virtual event, Apple Inc. introduced a speedy new iPad Air model with a five-nanometer chip packing 11.8 billion transistors and announced a major hardware refresh of its smartwatch line. Notably absent from the event were Apple’s next-generation iPhones. Recent reports suggest that the devices will be formally introduced a ...
AWS details how tech firms use its cloud to aid COVID-19 response
Companies in multiple markets are using Amazon Web Services Inc.’s platform to build products that can aid the global response to COVID-19, and the cloud giant today shared details about some of its customers’ efforts. Brain Corp. is a San Diego robotics startup backed by more than $150 million in funding. The startup, which runs internal workloads ...
Devo raises $60M as IBM Security co-founder named CEO
Cybersecurity startup Devo Inc. today said that it has raised $60 million in fresh funding to accelerate its growth plans and also appointed a new chief executive to lead the effort. The funding was provided by noted venture capital firms Georgian Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Insight Partners. The new CEO is IBM Corp. veteran Marc ...
Snowflake potentially headed to $30B+ IPO after raising price target by 30%
Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake Inc. today boosted the target price range for its upcoming initial public offering by about 30%, saying in an updated S-1 filing that it hopes to sell its shares for $100 to $110 apiece. That’s up from a target of between $75 and $85 before. According to CNBC, which first ...