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Auth0 raises $15M to make building authentication functionality into apps a breeze
Most of the authentication providers out there cater to IT personnel seeking to better regulate how line-of-business users access third party services, but Auth0 Inc. is different. The Washington-based outfit is working to help companies improve the security of their own software, an effort that received a$15 million boost today from Trinity Ventures and three other backers. ...
Study: Most U.S. IT pros now make over $100K annually
Working in IT has never been more lucrative. According to the newest DevOps Salary Report from infrastructure automation giant Puppet Inc., some 58 percent of enterprise technology practitioners in the U.S. now earn over $100,000 annually. This figure represents a massive 11 percent increase over 2015 when less than half of the community counted itself ...
SecureAuth joins the fiercely competitive cloud SSO market
Now that its on-premise authentication platform has been deployed at over 1,000 organizations, SecureAuth Corp. is looking to replicate its success in the cloud. The vendor launched a managed incarnation of the offering this morning that promises to help workers interact with web applications more safely. SecureAuth Cloud Access supports about 8,000 software-as-a-service offerings and ...
SimpliVity intros a 22TB all-flash hyperconverged appliance
Hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage, two of the most-buzzed about technologies in the data center today, are coming together. One of the vendors driving the trend is SimpliVity Corp., which today added a new model to its popular line of integrated appliances called the CN-5400-F that packs 14 speedy Intel S3610 SSDs into a 2U chassis. ...
Syncsort picks up UK mainframe outfit Cogito to unlock big iron data
Though analytics technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, many traditional organizations still rely on mainframes for their most important data processing workloads. Syncsort Inc. hopes to put itself in a better position to target this segment by acquiring Cogito Ltd., a British firm that develops software for freeing information locked in big iron deployments. The firm sells performance optimization tools ...
Google’s new IntelliJ plugin helps developers deploy cloud apps more easily
Google is coming up with new and increasingly creative ways to lure developers away from rivaling cloud providers. As part of its efforts, the company has launched a plugin for JetBrain s.r.o’s popular IntelliJ IDEA that provides the ability to push code to its hosted platform-as-a-service environment directly through the native interface. The offering appears ...
GitLab takes on Atlassian and GitHub with a new visual issue tracking board
Managing application projects is about to become much easier for GitLab Inc. users. The startup today introduced an issue tracking feature for its fast-growing code hosting platform that promises to help development teams organize the features, enhancements and other items on their to-do lists more effectively. The GitLab Issue Board is a sleek graphical panel ...
Bessemer leads $29M investment into email security provider Virtu
While popular email services such as Gmail and Outlook aren’t likely to suffer a large-scale data breach, individual inboxes can still be compromised in a myriad of other ways that present just as big of a threat. To mitigate that risk, a fast-growing startup, Virtu Inc., raised $29 million today from a group of top investors ...
Microsoft buys scheduling AI startup Genee
A week after Salesforce.com Inc. revamped the calendar in its email extension to help users manage their meetings more easily, Microsoft is moving into the scheduling automation space as well. The company today acquired a startup called Genee Inc. that has developed a chatbot for making business appointments. Although Microsoft plans to shut down the ...
What you missed in Big Data: Bringing analytics to the corporate masses
Vendors are investing heavily to address the growing demand for analytics functionality in the enterprise. As part of this push, Salesforce.com Inc. last week acquired a startup called BeyondCore Inc. that specializes in extracting meaning from large databases with upwards of millions of records. Its namesake business intelligence platform works by mapping out the mathematical ...