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New Cray supercomputer offers petaflop computing power in one cabinet
More than 30 years after selling its first supercomputer, Cray Inc. continues to push the envelope on processing power. The company unveiled a new data crunching system at the SC16 computing event in Utah today that is the first of its kind to incorporate Nvidia Corp.’s latest-generation P100 accelerators. Based on the chip maker’s 16-nanometer ...
Forward Networks exits stealth with math-based approach to fighting network issues
Three years after banding together to take on the data center market, David Erickson and his team of Stanford Ph.D.s at Forward Networks Inc. are finally ready to reveal what they’ve been working on. The startup is emerging from stealth today with a platform that promises to help companies improve the reliability and security of ...
IBM and Nvidia launch PowerAI, a hardware-optimized deep learning toolkit
IBM Corp. and Nvidia Corp. today revealed the next step in their plan to capitalize on the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. At the annual SC16 supercomputing conference today, the companies are showcasing a jointly developed toolkit dubbed PowerAI that contains custom versions of Torch, Theano and Caffe, three of the most popular open-source deep ...
RiskIQ raises $30.5M to help enterprise security teams find vulnerabilities
As the historic breach of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2014 demonstrated, even one overlooked server or vulnerability can have disastrous consequences. To fill the gaps in their understanding of the threat landscape, companies are turning to security assessment providers such as RiskIQ Inc., which nabbed a $30.5 million investment today led by Canadian venture ...
Adobe acquires TubeMogul for $540M to fill out marketing cloud
With eMarketer predicting that spending on digital video advertisements will increase by double digits annually through 2020, it’s no wonder Adobe Systems Inc. has decided to join the fray. The technology giant today inked an agreement to buy TubeMogul Inc., a publicly traded company that helps brands buy and manage broadcast ad inventory, for about $540 million ...
Sapho expands its enterprise push notification service to Google Analytics and Zendesk
Staying on top of new information is easier said than done for business professionals who interact with upwards of dozens of different applications over the course of the average work week. In a bid to ease the challenge, a startup called Sapho Inc. has developed an alerting platform that makes it possible to pull updates ...
Neo Technology closes $36 million in funding as graph database adoption soars
The investment community has taken note of Neo Technology Inc.’s rapid rise in the database market. Greenbridge Partners Ltd, a venture capital firm co-owned by Swedish billionaire Melker Schorling, led a $36 million financing round into the startup today with support from three of its existing institutional backers. Neo will use the new funds to ...
Hired raises $30M more to scale its tech job marketplace
The online recruiting space has seen a surge of competition in recent quarters thanks to the emergence of startups such as Hired Inc. that are reimagining the traditional job search website. Tthe San Francisco-based outfit raised $30 million today as part of a follow-up to the $40 million investment that it closed earlier this year. ...
Castle raises $2 million to fight rising threat of account takeover attacks
The ransomware and botnet attacks that have been dominating the headlines lately are only two of the online threats that organizations have to deal with these days. An equally pressing danger is the rise of so-called account takeover campaigns that target users with privileged access rights to a service or personal data in their profiles. ...
Sequoia leads $10M investment into network analytics startup Indeni
Visa Inc., Fujitsu Ltd. and Comcast Corp. don’t have much in common from a competitive standpoint, but behind the scenes, they all rely on a startup called Indeni Inc. to keep their data centers running smoothly. The Palo Alto-based firm has quietly emerged as a force to be reckoned within the information technology operations world ...