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Fresh off its $3.7B Cisco buyout, AppDynamics revamps its platform
While the AppDynamics Inc. management team was busy sorting out the company’s $3.7 billion sale to Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this year, product development efforts evidently continued as normal. The application monitoring provider today rolled out the first major update to its namesake toolkit since the completion of the acquisition last month. One of the main ...
Secondary storage startup Cohesity raises over $90M in new round
A dozen of the biggest names in technology and venture capital are betting that a startup called Cohesity Inc. will shake up the data storage market. Led by GV, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc., the group has invested more than $90 million into the firm today as part of a round that brings ...
Salesforce adds new automation features powered by its Einstein AI
Like other enterprise tech giants, Salesforce.com Inc. is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to stand out from the competition. The company is doubling down today with a new iteration of its flagship Sales Cloud that sports several features powered by its self-learning Einstein data-crunching system. The additions are designed mainly to automate the manual work ...
DigitalOcean launches a free monitoring service for its public cloud
Hot on the heels of introducing a native load balancer to make it easier for customers to manage their computing workloads across virtual machines, DigitalOcean Inc. is augmenting its public cloud again in a bid to further improve usability. The startup today rolled out a free monitoring service that can provide insight into the behavior of every ...
Qumulo raises $30M for its ‘data-aware’ storage platform
After more than quadrupling storage shipments over the past year, Qumulo Inc. is marking another milestone in its efforts to disrupt traditional array makers. The company today announced that it has secured a $30 million funding round led by China’s Northern Light Venture Capital and several unnamed “strategic investors.” Four of the funds that contributed ...
Security startup Darktrace introduces ‘digital antibody’ against malware
Despite the plethora of threat mitigation tools available, research carried out by the Ponemon Institute indicates that fully containing a breach can still take companies months in some cases. Darktrace, a British security startup that has raised over $100 million from investors, believes that the solution is to automate the threat response process. The ...
Mist launches new service to unlock Internet of Things location data
Companies often require the ability to track the location of the sensors and other connected devices on their networks, but not every endpoint can provide positioning data, especially in indoor environments. Mist Systems Inc. hopes to overcome the challenge with a new cloud-based tool that can pinpoint where a device happens to be in ...
BlackBerry’s stock soars after earnings beat revenue and profit expectations
BlackBerry Ltd.’s efforts to recover from the decline of its once-dominant handset business appear to be moving on the right track. In its fourth-quarter earnings report today, the company revealed it beat analyst estimates on all major counts during the three months ended Feb. 27. One of the areas where BlackBerry made the biggest improvement is the ...
OneLogin harnesses machine learning to make sign-ins less of a hassle
Amid the fierce competition in the identity management market, OneLogin Inc. is turning to artificial intelligence for an edge. The company unveiled a new iteration of its authentication service today that employs machine learning algorithms to fine-tune how much scrutiny is applied to users when they try to sign into a service. According to OneLogin, ...
HelloSign launches service for turning documents into mobile-native ‘workflows’
The electronically signed forms that are replacing physical paperwork in offices worldwide are proving easier to store and manage, but they can still be a hassle to fill, especially on handsets with limited screen real-estate. HelloSign Inc. has taken it upon itself to tackle the challenge. The startup today introduced a new service called HelloWorks ...