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Cisco Systems Inc. is expanding its lineup of data center management tools with a new cloud service designed to take some hassle out of day-to-day operations. Dubbed Intersight, the platform works with the company’s Unified Computing System and HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances. It augments …
Baidu launches a $1.5B autonomous vehicle fund
A week after Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed plans to invest in companies pursuing autonomous driving and other emerging vehicle technologies, another of Asia’s tech titans is joining the fray. Chinese search provider Baidu Inc. today announced the launch of a 10 billion …
Manifold exits stealth to simplify how developers buy cloud services
Development teams increasingly employ cloud-based tools as part of their work — so much so, in fact, that managing all the different services used for a project can often be a major hassle. Arigato Machine Inc., which conducts business under the Manifold name, …
Amazon is reportedly developing Alexa-powered smart glasses
Amazon.com Inc. is actively working to get Alexa on more devices beyond its own Echo smart speakers. The company recently released a development kit to help other hardware makers make use of the voice assistant, and now it’s reportedly preparing to take the effort to …
HubSpot acquires chatbot development startup Motion AI
Just two months after buying Kemvi Inc. to give customers access to better market intelligence, HubSpot Inc. has picked up another startup. The marketing automation giant this morning announced the acquisition of Motion AI Inc., a two-year-old chatbot development specialist. With the …
DigitalOcean launches Spaces, a much-needed object storage service
DigitalOcean Inc. is marking its seventh product launch in 18 months. Following an extensive beta testing phase, the well-funded cloud provider today rolled out an object storage service called Spaces. DigitalOcean Chief Executive Officer Ben Uretsky hailed it as “the most important …
HashiCorp’s new Sentinel tool creates corporate ‘policy guardrails’
Infrastructure automation provider HashiCorp Inc. is doubling down on policy enforcement. The startup, which counts Pinterest Inc. and Barclays PLC among its clients, today introduced a framework called Sentinel to help companies enforce internal compliance policies. It was developed to address the …
Google’s natural language processing service gets smarter
Like other web giants, Google LLC is investing a lot of resources into recruiting artificial intelligence researchers. Improving its developer services is one of the ways in which the company has been putting that talent to use. Today, the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary released two new …
Twilio opens its cloud communications platform to nondevelopers
Some 1.6 million developers use Twilio Inc.’s namesake cloud platform to provide communications features such as voice calling in their applications. Now, the company hopes to grow that number even further by bringing nontechnical professionals into the fold. Twilio today unveiled a new service that …
Threat Stack’s centralized cybersecurity vision attracts $45M in funding
Against the backdrop of the attack against Equifax Inc. that compromised over 140 million consumers, companies are investing heavily in cybersecurity to avoid becoming the next headline. Startups such as Threat Stack Inc. are rushing to meet the demand, with enthusiastic support …