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What you missed in Cloud: Big wins all around
Despite the continuing decline in venture capital spending, several cloud startups managed to buck the trend last week and secure the funding necessary for their growth plans. Among them was CloudEndure Ltd., which raised $6.2 million from a duo of unnamed ”global strategic investors” to finance the development of new functionality for its disaster recovery ...
DigitalOcean takes out a $130M credit line to scale its public cloud globally
Running a public cloud isn’t cheap, especially if the goal is to provide a similar level of service as Amazon Inc. and the other web giants that dominate the infrastructure-as-a-service market. To try and level the playing field somewhat, DigitalOcean Inc. this week revealed that it’s taken out a $130 million line of credit from ...
Azure Media Analytics lets enterprises tap their video feeds and user content
Microsoft Corp. wants to help organizations get as much use out of their video assets as the rest of their unstructured data with a new set of cloud services for processing visual content that rolled out today. Azure Media Analytics provides tools for performing image stabilization and other mundane tasks as well as more advanced ...
Google’s AI engine, TensorFlow, can now scale across thousands of machines
Five months after its initial release, TensorFlow may finally start finding use in large-scale artificial intelligence projects. The credit goes to the new iteration of the framework that Google rolled out yesterday, which introduces the ability to scale algorithms across hundreds and potentially even thousands of machines. The functionality is made possible by the inclusion ...
DigitalGenius raises $4.1M for its customer service bot
The competition in the customer service automation space kicked up another notch today after DigitalGenius Inc. announced that it’s secured $4.1 million in funding from a group of nine institutional investors. According to the startup, the cash will be spent on trying to broaden the adoption of its Human+AI Platform, which uses machine learning algorithms ...
Nexthink lands $40M to harness machine learning in the fight against hackers
The rapid increase in the number of attacks against corporate networks is creating a lot of new business for security startups like Nexthink SA, which snagged $40 million from investors today to try and increase its momentum even further. The capital will be used to open a sales office in Boston tasked with marketing the Swiss ...
CloudEndure raises another $6M for its managed disaster recovery service
As more organizations back up their workloads to the public cloud, the venture capital community is widening its efforts to monetize the trend. The latest beneficiary of the push is a disaster recovery startup called CloudEndure Ltd. that today revealed it’s raised $6 million in financing from unnamed “global strategic investors.” The cash infusion comes ...
New Lucidworks tool lets companies create customized data libraries for their users
Although organizations usually build their analytics infrastructure with sophisticated business intelligence models in mind, not every interaction requires a complex query or mathematical formula. Workers often only need the ability to quickly fetch a certain record from their company’s data trove, which requires search functionality that can take a great deal of additional effort to ...
Hortonworks shores up Hadoop security with new open-source technologies
Security emerged as a central talking point at the Hadoop Summit today after Hortonworks Inc. introduced a set of new features for its distribution of the platform aimed at helping customers protect their deployments more effectively. Standing out in particular is the addition of integration with Apache Metron, an emerging open-source system for identifying malicious activity. ...
The creators of Linux’s I/O stack just raised $40M for their new storage startup
The software-defined storage market is crowded with dozens of vendors ranging from small startups to well-established incumbents like EMC Corp., but Khosla Ventures believes that there’s still room for one more. The technology investment giant was today named among the contributors to a $40 million round into an outfit called Datera Inc. that promises to provide a ...