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AWS backs $36.6M funding round for GitOps inventor Weaveworks
Amazon Web Services Inc. and a group of other prominent investors have led a $36.65 million funding round into Weaveworks Inc., the startup behind the increasingly popular “GitOps” approach to managing cloud applications. The round, announced today, brings Weaveworks’ total raised to $60 million. AWS was joined in the round by GV, the venture capital ...
SingleStore raises $80M more for its real-time relational database
SingleStore Inc., the database startup known until recently as MemSQL, today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Dell Technologies Inc. and Hercules Capital joined Insight in the round. A number of SingleStore’s existing investors took part as well, among them Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm. San ...
Oracle adds automated load balancer to its public cloud
Oracle Corp. today pulled back the curtains on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Flexible Load Balancer, a new service in its cloud platform aimed at making it easier to add and remove network resources inside enterprise application environments. Load balancers are a foundational component of enterprise technology environments responsible for managing network traffic. They help divide ...
Cisco to acquire online events startup Slido to enhance Webex
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to acquire Slido s.r.o., a startup that helps companies provide a better experience for audiences attending online events such as virtual conferences and webinars. Cisco plans to use the startup’s technology to enhance the capabilities of its Webex videoconferencing platform, which competes with Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Slido provides ...
DoorDash seeks to raise up to $3.1B in IPO after boosting target range
DoorDash Inc. has upped the fundraising target for its forthcoming initial public offering and is now looking to raise as much as $3.1 billion from public investors. The food delivery giant disclosed the revised goal today in a regulatory filing spotted by Bloomberg. It said in the same filing that the funds raised through the ...
Intel’s latest quantum control chip manipulates qubits with radio pulses
Intel Corp. has shared details about Horse Ridge II, a quantum control chip that it describes as a milestone toward enabling large-scale quantum machines. The company revealed the chip on Thursday during a virtual event hosted by its Intel Labs Unit. Horse Ridge II emerged from the company’s efforts to tackle what it sees as ...
Nutanix’s storage services get a hybrid cloud boost
Nutanix Inc. today announced upgrades for two of its storage products, Objects and Files, that will enable companies to take better advantage of the public cloud in their operations. Publicly traded Nutanix is a major provider of software for managing information technology infrastructure. Objects and Files are two services that companies can deploy atop their ...
AWS will power Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s SAP environment
Siemens Smart Infrastructure, a unit of industrial giant Siemens AG that makes equipment for buildings and electricity grids, will move its mission-critical SAP applications to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud as part of a deal announced today. The companies divulged the agreement against the backdrop of AWS’ virtual re:Invent event. SAP SE’s applications are used ...
‘Google for developers’ startup Sourcegraph lands $50M Sequoia-led round
Sourcegraph Inc., a startup whose technology helps developers at companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC manage their code, today announced that it has closed a $50 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The Series C investment comes just eight months after Sourcegraph’s last raise. Since then, the startup claims, annual recurring revenues ...
Salesforce expands its low-code capabilities with Einstein Automate
Salesforce.com Inc. today previewed Einstein Automate, an upcoming cloud offering that will enable users to create workflows for automating tasks such as processing customer requests with little to no coding. Einstein Automate is made up of two tools: Flow Orchestrator and MuleSoft Composer. Both are expected to become accessible for customers in 2021. Flow Orchestrator ...