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Google Cloud’s new VM Manager brings automation to large instance fleets
Google LLC today introduced VM Manager, a bundle of tools for administrators designed to make it more time-efficient to manage large fleets of instances on Google Cloud. VM Manager’s features can be organized into two main categories. One set of features focuses on making it easier to manage the operating system running in instances, while ...
Email optimization startup SparkPost raises $180M to expand its market reach
SparkPost Inc., a startup helping to deliver more than a third of the world’s commercial emails, today announced that it has raised $180 million in fresh funding from LLR Partners, NewSpring Capital and PNC Bank. The valuation at which the round was raised isn’t being disclosed. SparkPost, based in Columbia, Maryland, provides a cloud service ...
DataStax targets data streaming market with Kesque acquisition
DataStax Inc. today said that it has acquired Kesque Inc., a startup with a data platform for powering real-time enterprise applications such as analytics and package tracking services. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. DataStax provides a commercial version of Apache Cassandra, one of the industry’s most popular NoSQL databases. Its software is ...
Commvault’s revenue hits record as new products gain momentum
Commvault Systems Inc. today reported $188 million in revenue for its third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, a 7% improvement from the same time a year earlier and a new all-time record for the company. Adjusted earnings per share set a record as well. Commvault provides data protection software and appliances that enable organizations to ...
DriveNets reels in $208M for its container-based carrier networking platform
DriveNets Ltd., a startup developing a software container-based networking platform for carriers, today announced that it has raised $208 million in funding at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. D1 Capital Partners led the round with participation from Atreides Management as well as returning DriveNets backers Bessemer and Pitango. The last two firms have made “significant ...
Data streaming startup Vectorized raises $15.5M to take on Apache Kafka
Vectorized Inc., a new data management startup, today disclosed that it has raised $15.5 million across two funding rounds from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund. The startup’s entry into the crowded data management market is an open-source stream processing platform dubbed Redpanda that was released this morning as well. It aims to ...
Amazon will add 3000+ workers to its Boston Tech Hub in latest major expansion
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to recruit more than additional 3,000 workers in Boston to support the growth of Amazon Web Services Inc., Alexa and other important parts of its business. The new hires will nearly double the workforce of Amazon’s Boston Tech Hub location. To support the expansion, the online retail giant has leased ...
Twitter buys email newsletter publishing startup Revue
Twitter Inc. has acquired Revue, a Substack Inc. competitor with a service that enables writers to publish email newsletters more easily and sell subscriptions to their content. Under the deal announced today, Revue will continue to operate as an independent business for the time being. Its team, which currently has six people, will be expanded ...
Food delivery startup Wolt raises $530M after tripling revenues
Helsinki, Finland-based food delivery startup Wolt Enterprises Oy today announced that it has raised an additional $530 million from investors, less than a year after closing its previous $100 million funding round. Wolt isn’t as well-known as rivals such as publicly traded Deliveroo Inc. but has a substantial presence in the food delivery market. The ...
Google workers in 10 countries launch global union alliance
Workers at Google LLC and its parent company Alphabet Inc. have formed a global union alliance that includes 13 unions in 10 different countries on launch. The alliance, called Alpha Global, was announced this morning. The news comes just weeks after a group of more than 200 Google workers in the U.S. and Canada formed ...