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What you missed in Cloud: Google, Amazon chart global expansion
After years of trailing Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in the cloud market, Google believes that it’s time for a change of strategy. The search giant last week launched an ambitious reorganization effort that is set to see its infrastructure- and software-as-a-service portfolios move under a dedicated division along with several other related products. The ...
Demandbase launches AI-powered tool to help marketers find new leads
Salesforce.com Inc. isn’t the only cloud vendor that is infusing artificial intelligence functionality into its offerings. Today, Demandbase Inc. is following the software-as-a-service giant’s lead and launching a new business graph for its business-to-business marketing platform that uses machine learning algorithms to help users to find leads faster. Dubbed DemandGraph, the tool is based on ...
What you need to know about Nutanix’s blockbuster IPO
Technology firms that have been holding off their initial public offerings of stock for fear of lackluster investor interest may be rethinking those plans today. The latest tech company to go public, the cloud computing company Nutanix Inc., saw its shares jump 66 percent from their initial offering price when trading opened today. Originally expected to ...
Aiming to supercharge AI, Amazon launches cloud service powered by graphics chips
Confirming rumors rumors from a few weeks ago, Amazon.com Inc. today unveiled a new cloud computing service for artificial intelligence and other data-intensive applications. The new addition to Amazon Web Services’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is based on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from Nvidia Corp., which increasingly are used in the branch of AI called deep learning neural networks ...
Cloudflare launches two new services for dealing with traffic surges
A few days after Akamai Technologies Inc. launched a service for speeding up media-heavy websites, CloudFlare Inc. is upping the ante by rolling out two new administrative tools to its rivaling content delivery network. The first addition is a security system called Traffic Control that promises to help companies make their online properties more resilient ...
Unicorn sighting: Apttus raises $88M at $1.3B valuation, launches AI called Max
It’s a big day for Apttus Corp. and its cloud-based billing automation. The company, which helps organizations prepare invoices and contracts, today raised a hefty $88 million investment from a group of backers led by UAE-based fund GII. The funding brings its valuation to $1.3 billion, making it a new unicorn. Apttus will now shift gears ...
Contrast Security raises $16M to help applications defend against attacks
By their nature, the traditional security tools that organizations use to protect their in-house workloads don’t lend themselves too well to modern services deployed in the cloud or inside containers. As a result, chief information officers are turning to new-generation breach prevention providers such as Contrast Security Inc., which raised $16 million in funding today ...
Akamai picks up stream processing startup Concord
Analytics appears to be taking on a bigger role in Akamai Technologies Inc.’s growth plans. The content delivery giant today announced that it has acquired Concord Systems Inc., the New York-based startup behind the open-source stream processing engine of the same name. The framework employs Apache Mesos to handle the logistics of distributing analytics workflows ...
Druva raises $51M to help companies protect their off-premises data
Organizations have limited control over the business information that employees store in the cloud and on their mobile devices, but that information needs to be protected just as much as the data they keep behind the firewall. One of the vendors working to address the challenge is Druva Software Pvt Ltd., which raised $51 million in ...
Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises
As the Apache open source software Kafka continues to gain traction among large organizations for its ability to handle streaming data such as Twitter feeds, their requirements are becoming an increasingly important priority in the project’s roadmap. Confluent Inc. set out to address some of those demands today by adding new automation features to its ...