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There are numerous tools out there that promise to help companies streamline their internal support operations, but many of them hail from a time when on-premises software still ruled the workplace. Samanage Inc. has taken it upon itself to bring the industry …
DigitalOcean fills gap in its public cloud with new managed load balancing
With its public cloud on the verge of reaching a million users, DigitalOcean Inc. is ramping up feature development to ensure that new bookings keep coming down the pipe. The latest fruit of the provider’s efforts is a new load balancing mechanism designed …
HP’s new security software turns every browser tab into an isolated sandbox
HP Inc. may have exited the breach prevention market after splitting from its enterprise technology arm in 2015, but helping customers keep their personal computers secure remains a priority. The technology giant today unveiled a new piece of software called Sure Click …
Google launches new gateway for cloud application programming interfaces
As part of its campaign to provide greater freedom of choice in the public cloud, Google Inc. is giving customers a new option for managing the application programming interfaces they use to enable web services to communicate with one another. The search …
Docker debuts new security mechanism for application containers
One of the reasons behind the rapid adoption of containers is that the applications running inside them can be easily moved across different types of infrastructure, which simplifies a lot of administrative tasks. But this portability often has the opposite effect when …
Intel’s new top-end processor packs 24 cores and a hefty price tag
Moore’s Law may be becoming harder for the semiconductor industry to follow, but Intel Corp. keeps finding ways of increasing its chips’ computational power. The hardware giant maker on Thursday unveiled a new addition to its Xeon chip lineup that is hailed …
Zenefits lays off 430 employees, nearly half its workforce
Just when it started to look like Zenefits is returning to a more or less stable course, the management team has announced its biggest staff reduction reduction to date. The workforce management startup is laying off a full 45 percent of its …
ZingBox debuts an IoT security platform for finding hacked devices
The growing threat from Mirai and other new malware strains that can hijack millions of devices at a time is driving companies to revamp their security defenses. ZingBox Inc., a startup spun out of Stanford University’s incubator program, wants to help ease the …
Demisto raises $20M to bring chatbots into the cybersecurity world
While most chatbot startups focus on automating common business tasks such as sharing files and answering customer questions, Demisto Inc. is working towards an entirely different goal: fighting hackers. The two-year-old firm today said it has closed a $20 million funding round to …
Communications startup Fuze lands $104M ahead of IPO
While the industry has its attention fixed on Slack Technologies Inc., several other promising team communications providers are expanding aggressively in the background. One of them is the Boston-based Fuze Inc., known until recently as ThinkingPhones, which today announced that it has …