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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 ...
Kasten launches data management platform to tackle new needs of software containers
As adoption of application containers continues to expand, more companies run up against the challenges involved in deploying the technology on a large scale. A startup called Kasten Inc. exited stealth mode today to tackle one of the biggest obstacles: data management. The issue affects so-called stateful applications such as databases that must store information ...
Phishing prevention startup Ironscales lands $6.5M round
Ironscales Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity provider, this morning announced that it has raised a $6.5 million funding round led by K1 Capital Management to tackle one of the biggest online threats facing enterprises today. The startup develops tools for fending off phishing attacks, which target an organization’s employees with legitimate-looking emails designed to obtain ...
Nvidia brings its GPU Cloud to desktops in bid to democratize AI development
Nvidia Corp. is moving to lower the entry barrier to developing artificial intelligence models. The chip maker, which sells graphics processing units commonly used for running AI applications, today updated its Nvidia GPU Cloud to support everyday desktops. Machines running the company’s consumer-oriented Titan accelerators can now take advantage of deep learning capabilities that were previously available only ...
Eyeing hostile takeover, Broadcom pushes to oust Qualcomm’s board
Three weeks after its record-breaking $105 billion bid to acquire Qualcomm Technologies Inc. was rebuffed, Broadcom Ltd. is escalating its takeover effort. The semiconductor giant today issued a proposal to unseat Qualcomm’s board of directors, which unanimously rejected last month’s acquisition offer for being too low. Broadcom has put together a list of 11 replacement nominees that ...