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Israel’s Proov raises $7M for its proof-of-concept cloud
There’s much more to buying software in the enterprise than just choosing the vendor with the most appealing value proposition. Organizations must also painstakingly test every product to see whether it works with their existing infrastructure, a task that Proov Inc. is looking to simplify. The Israeli startup today raised $7 million from Mangrove Capital Partners and ...
IBM unveils new chip and servers for data-intensive workloads
Since exiting the commodity server market in 2014, IBM Corp. has been able to pay much more attention to its high-end machines. The latest fruit of the vendor’s efforts is a trio of Power LC models that are built to run complex artificial intelligence and analytic applications. The most noteworthy of the systems is the two-socket S822LC, ...
Fast-rising DevOps startup HashiCorp raises $24M in funding
For a startup that hit the scene in only 2012, HashiCorp Inc. punches above its weight. The outfit has seen its open-source application management tools downloaded millions of times in the last few years, recently passed the seven-figure quarterly sales mark and today raised an additional $24 million to fuel its growth efforts. The capital ...
vArmour joins the deception-based security game
The growing interest in deception-based security software from startups like the recently funded GuardiCore Ltd. is starting to draw the attention of more established players as well. The latest entrant into the race is vArmour Inc., which today unveiled a new honeypot tool for its namesake breach prevention system that promises to help organizations deflect hacking ...
DigitalOcean offers $100K in cloud credits to startups
DigitalOcean Inc. is stepping up its efforts to court startups. The infrastructure-as-a-service provider today launched a program called Hatch that offers eligible teams $100,000 worth of free cloud resources plus training materials, priority support and other assistance. The initative aims to level the playing field against better-established providers like Amazon Inc. that are also trying ...
Desktop-as-a-service startup Dizzion raises $6.4M amid growing competition
Like the rest of the IT industry, the desktop virtualization market is seeing more and more organizations switch from on-premise solutions to hosted alternatives that are easier to manage. One of the providers working to capitalize on the trend is a Denver-based startup called Dizzion Inc. that raised $6.4 million in funding today to fuel ...
What you missed on Big Data: Ease-of-use tops the agenda
It’s a rule of thumb in the technology world that the more accessible a product is, the more widely it will be adopted. As a result, analytics vendors constantly working to make it easier for customers to extract insight from their data. Google led the charge last week by releasing a new machine learning feature ...
What you missed in Cloud: Investing in growth
The industry’s top cloud providers regularly release new features and services to stay ahead of the market. Last week, Amazon was revealed to be developing a new type of cloud instance called the P2 as part of its competitive efforts that will be based on Nvidia Corp.’s speedy K80 GPU. The anonymous insider who leaked ...
Salesforce.com’s new Wave apps promise to ease analytics for marketing and finance pros
One of the reasons for Salesforce.com Inc.’s continued dominance in the software-as-a-service market is that it regularly releases new products and features to keep up with customer demands. The latest addition arrived this morning in the form of two new extensions for its Wave Analytics service that aim to make its capabilities more accessible to ...
Billionaire Thomas Siebel’s PaaS startup C3 IoT raises $70M
Having a well-known founder can go a long way towards helping a startup attract investors. The latest example of that is C3 IoT Inc., the platform-as-a-service provider led by Silicon Valley billionaire Thomas Siebel, which today raised $70 million in a funding round led by TPG Growth. The cash infusion follows a series of major ...