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Veritas debuts new tools to aid the multicloud model
Spreading a firm’s workloads across multiple public clouds with the help of the best services from each can provide major operational benefits. But in practice, there are numerous technical barriers that stand in the way of organizations adopting such a model. Veritas Technologies LLC hopes to lower the barrier with three new tools announced today. Each is ...
Clustree secures $7.9M to harness machine learning for recruiting
Many of the startups working to commercialize artificial intelligence nowadays have chosen recruiting as the area where they wish to make their mark. Among them is Paris-based Clustree SA, which today said it has raised $7.9 million from local funds Idinvest Partners and Alven Capital to help it stand out from the pack. The startup ...
DigitalOcean adds firewall service to target serious workloads
DigitalOcean Inc. is pursuing an aggressive development roadmap to counter the competition from Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the other bigger players in the cloud market. The provider passed another milestone today after launching a native firewall for its infrastructure as a service platform. It’s designed to reduce the amount of effort involved in securing ...
Newly public Alteryx buys Y Combinator-backed Yhat to speed data science projects
Three months after going public in a $126 million offering, analytics powerhouse Alteryx Inc. is putting some of that money to use. At a user event in Las Vegas today, the company announced that it has acquired Yhat Inc., a Y Combinator-backed startup that sells tools for data scientists. The three products that make up ...
Cumulus launches tool for troubleshooting software-defined networks
The automated nature of software-defined networks makes it relatively straightforward to roll out changes, but this convenience comes at a cost. The fact that implementing an update requires little to no manual input means errors can spread across an environment before anyone has a chance to intervene, an issue Cumulus Networks Inc. wants to address. ...
Stealthy IoT security startup Armis closes $17M round
The rapid spread of connected devices is making it difficult for companies to keep track of all the hardware linked to their networks, which creates blind spots that can be exploited by a determined attacker. Fortunately, this threat is emerging as a growing priority for cybersecurity providers. Among them is Armis Inc., a stealth startup headquartered ...
Workey raises $8M for its AI-powered recruiting platform
Workey Employees Recruitments Ltd. believes that artificial intelligence can make hiring smoother both for recruiters and for candidates. The Israeli startup, which announced today that it has secured $8 million in funding, runs a job board that employs machine learning technology to match users with open positions. When a professional creates a profile on Workey, ...
Salesforce beefs up Heroku with new security controls
Salesforce.com Inc. wants to help Heroku customers protect their workloads more easily. To that end, the cloud giant today released a security toolkit for the application platform that aims to reduce the amount of work involved in meeting compliance standards. It’s modeled after Salesforce Shield, the encryption and monitoring bundle that the company sells for ...
NetApp jumps into the hyperconverged infrastructure market
Four months after revealing plans to enter the hyperconverged infrastructure market, NetApp Inc. is officially joining the fray with a new system it’s touting as the “most far-reaching” innovation in its 25-year history. The NetApp HCI is an appliance that offers up to 36 processing cores for running virtual machines and as much as 44 ...
Moore’s Law lives: In computing milestone, IBM develops 5-nanometer chip
While chip market leader Intel Corp. is only just starting to experiment with transistors that are 7 nanometers thick, a consortium led by IBM Corp. has already reached the next evolutionary stage of semiconductor technology. Engineers from the company’s research arm, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and GlobalFoundries Inc. are currently testing the world’s first batch ...