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Applause nabs $35M for its crowdsourced app testing platform
Companies are finding increasingly creative ways to shorten their release cycles. Some are adopting new development methodologies that can speed up code deployment, while others are tapping the power of the crowd with the help of providers like Applause Inc., which raised $35 million today to spread the word about its approach. The Massachusetts-based startup ...
IBM hires Silicon Valley veteran Michelle Peluso as its first CMO
A few months after hiring former AOL Inc. executive Bob Lord as its chief digital officer, IBM is welcoming another new member to the management team. The technology giant this week appointed Silicon Valley veteran Michelle Peluso to the newly created position of Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Peluso joins Big Blue from Technology ...
Sapphire Ventures raises $1B to fuel startup investments
Sapphire Ventures LLC has come a long way since spinning out of SAP SE in 2011. The former corporate investment arm, based in Palo Alto, CA, now ranks as one of the most prolific venture funds in the U.S., maintains an in-house market development team focused on mentoring founders and, last but not least, boasts ...
SAP launches Build, a cloud-based tool for prototyping enterprise apps
There’s much more to software development than just writing code. Application teams must also create a fine-tuned interface for every project if they want users to take full advantage of its features, a task that SAP SA hopes to ease with a new service called Build. The tool’s main selling point is a built-in template ...
Bessemer leads $25M investment into file sharing provider CTERA
While cloud lockers such as Box and Dropbox can make it much easier to manage business data, many organizations still prefer to handle employees’ file sharing activates on their own. As a result, they’re recruiting the help of providers like CTERA Networks Inc., which today raised $25 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Systems Inc. and Vintage ...
Cato Networks raises $30M to move enterprise WANs to the cloud
Like so many other on-premise systems, networking gear is being replaced with cloud services that promise to lower costs and ease management operations. One of the providers driving the trend is an Israeli startup called Cato Networks Inc. that raised $40 million in funding this morning to fuel its work. The firm runs a hosted ...
Y Combinator graduate GitLab raises $20M for its developer software
The fast-growing developer interest in GitLab Inc. and its namesake code hosting platform has not gone unnoticed by the investment community. August Capital, an early backer of several prominent tech firms including Splunk Inc., today led a $20 million funding round into the startup with the help of existing investors Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. ...
Dell sells off EMC’s content management division for $1.62B
Days after announcing plans to lay off 3,000 workers from EMC to reduce operating expenses, Dell Technologies Inc. is making another big reduction at its newly acquired storage subsidiary. The vendor today entered an agreement to sell the Enterprise Content Division (EDC) to Canadian software giant OpenText Corp. for $1.62 billion. While business units that find ...
HP buys Samsung’s printing business to ‘disrupt’ copier market
After seeing its printer revenues fall in double digits for several quarters in a row, HP Inc. is finally taking action to curb the decline. The company today announced that it’s acquiring the A3 printing business of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in a $1.05 billion deal that is set to buy it more than 6,500 patents ...
Nimble Storage goes “app-centric” with new management features
Balancing different workloads’ capacity requirements is about to become much easier for Nimble Storage Inc. customers. The flash array maker today introduced a set of “app-centric” management features that promise to help avoid situations where a virtual machine eats up too many resources and compromises the performance of its neighbors. Such incidents tend to occur ...