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LiDAR startup Ouster comes out of stealth with $27M in funding
Ouster Inc., a San Francisco-based hardware startup backed by $27 million in funding, today launched from stealth mode to carve out a niche for itself in the crowded LiDAR market. LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is the method companies such as Alphabet Inc. use to help their autonomous vehicles navigate the roads. A ...
Alpin’s new cloud platform aims to solve ‘shadow IT’ problem
The accessibility of software-as-a-service products is a double-edged sword. One hand, the average cloud offering is much easier to manage than the on-premises alternative, but on the other, users often sign up for applications without approval from the information technology organization. Boulder, Colorado-based Alpin Inc. today launched a platform to combat this phenomenon, which can ...
AWS goes after the single sign-on market with free cloud service
In a low-key announcement on Thursday that only started making the rounds this morning, Amazon Web Services Inc. introduced a new service to take on Okta Inc. and other established single sign-on providers. The tool has a fairly straightforward value proposition. Organizations can use AWS SSO to let users access the different assets in their internal cloud environments with a single ...
Nvidia’s new Titan V chip targets desktop-based AI development
Nvidia Corp.’s new Titan V graphics processing unit shares little resemblance to the earlier gaming-oriented chips in the series. The GPU, which the company unveiled Thursday night, retails for $2,999 and is geared toward artificial intelligence applications. Unlike other Nvidia graphics cards optimized for AI, however, it’s designed to be used in desktops rather than servers. ...
Preempt debuts new breach prevention platform to combat insider threats
Preempt Security Inc., a breach prevention provider backed by notable investors such as General Catalyst Partners, sees room for improvement in how companies handle the potential risks posed by internal users. The startup is seeking to reduce the threat with a new “adaptive” network protection product that it unveiled this morning. The Preempt Platform, as the ...
Code review startup PullRequest raises $2.3M in seed funding
Thanks to technologies such as software containers, development teams are now releasing new code as often as several times a day. One downside is that they don’t have nearly as much time to look for potential bugs as before, a challenge that PullRequest Inc. is taking on. The Austin, Texas-based startup’s efforts have attracted $2.3 million ...
Microsoft launches new open-source Kubernetes tools for Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. hopes to one-up Amazon Web Services Inc. on a key competitive front in the cloud computing wars. The technology giant today launched two open-source projects geared toward companies that use Kubernetes, the popular software framework Google LLC released in 2014. It’s the go-to tool for orchestrating software containers, which are increasingly used in the enterprise ...
Inflect raises $3M to become the Kayak of data center services
When a company needs to grow its infrastructure footprint, for example when expanding into a new market, one of the first steps is to check what data center services are available in the region and how they can help advance the project. The issue is that obtaining up-to-date provider information tends to be rather difficult. San ...
Microsoft taps AMD’s Epyc chips to power new Azure cloud instances
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is counting on the powerful Epyc server processors that it unveiled in June to challenge Intel Corp.’s long-held dominance of the data center market. Today, the company announced what could prove to be an important milestone toward that goal. AMD said Microsoft Corp., the second-largest player in the base-level infrastructure-as-a-service segment of ...
Intuit to acquire cloud-based time tracking provider TSheets for $340M
Intuit Inc., the venerable provider of cloud accounting tools for companies and individuals, today announced that it has agreed to acquire partner TSheets.com LLC in a $340 million deal. Eagle, Idaho-based TSheets offers a software-as-a-service platform for managing employees’ work hours. It has two main components each designed to handle a different aspect of the task. The most important ...