Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
SecurityScorecard raises $27.5M to benchmark companies’ cybersecurity
When it comes to cybersecurity, companies have more to worry about than attacks against their infrastructure and employees. There’s also the risk of hackers indirectly obtaining sensitive data by compromising third parties such as suppliers, a threat SecurityScorecard Inc. is tackling. The startup today announced that it has raised a $27.5 million funding round to ...
Unlikely allies Amazon and Microsoft unveil Gluon to ease machine learning projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the two top players in the fiercely competitive cloud infrastructure market, make for unlikely allies. But recent history shows even the oldest industry rivalries can be set aside to pursue common interests. Today, the two technology giants introduced a jointly developed machine learning library called Gluon. Available under an open-source ...
Sysdig upgrades its container monitoring platform to hunt for security threats
Like the other aspects of managing containerized applications, breach prevention often requires a much different approach than in a traditional software environment. San Francisco’s Sysdig Inc. today unveiled a new product aimed at enabling companies to handle the task more efficiently. Aptly named Sysdig Secure, the offering is based on a piece of open-source software called Falco ...
Cloud Foundry gets new software container toolkit codeveloped by Google
Cloud Foundry, the popular open-source application platform favored by enterprises, got a major upgrade today. The industry body responsible for maintaining the software today introduced a new component designed to help its many corporate users adopt containers, which allow applications to run unchanged across different computer environments. Dubbed the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, or CFCR ...
Alibaba launches $15B global research initiative to explore emerging tech
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founder Jack Ma (pictured) has a new plan for gaining an edge over Western rivals in the technology arms race. Today, the Chinese e-commerce giant announced the launch of an internal program that is set to see more than $15 billion invested in research and development over the next three years. Data compiled ...
ShiftLeft’s new cybersecurity platform customizes itself for every workload
Thanks to sophisticated development tools and practices that have emerged in recent years, application teams are producing code faster than ever. The downside is that the shorter release cycles become, the less time is left to check for potential security flaws. ShiftLeft Inc. has taken it upon itself to address the challenge. The startup, which operates ...
Nvidia’s new Pegasus chip targets tomorrow’s fully autonomous vehicles
There is still a way to go before self-driving vehicles can achieve true autonomy as defined by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s five-level automobile classification system. But according to Nvidia Corp., the processors needed to support the capability is already here. Jensen Huang (pictured), chief executive of the chip giant, today unveiled a new computing module code-named Pegasus at ...
SoftBank leads hefty $93M funding round for enterprise AI startup Petuum
Petuum Inc. is looking to help more companies take advantage of artificial intelligence and build self-learning applications. To support the effort, the Pittsburgh-based startup has raised $93 million in a newly announced funding round. The investment, announced today, was led by a subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Corp., a major force in the venture capital ...
Mimecast launches new cloud platform for safekeeping workers’ emails
Although chat services such as Slack are making significant inroads into the enterprise, email remains the go-to communications tool in many situations. Managing the countless messages produced by a large company’s employees on a day-to-day basis requires an extensive set of tools. One of the most basic necessities is an archiving system for preserving correspondences with ...
GM acquires LiDAR startup Strobe to advance its self-driving car plans
Many of the car makers and tech firms currently developing self-driving vehicles source sensory equipment from external suppliers, but General Motors Co. intends to build its own. To that end, the auto giant today said it has acquired Strobe Inc., a low-key hardware startup based in Pasadena, California. The financial terms of the deal were not ...