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Intel Capital calls off $1BN portfolio sale
Since joining the venture capital game in 1991, Intel has backed more than 1,400 startups across 57 countries and an even bigger number of segments, from software-as-a-service to healthcare automation. And according to a new blog post from the head of its investment arm, Wendell Brooks, the company plans to continue at full-throttle despite the ...
SDN buzz: Viptela raises $75M on $875M valuation
Raising $75 million would constitute a major feat for a four-year-old startup even under normal circumstances, but Viptela Inc. has managed to do so amid a historic slump in venture capital activity. The round was led by Redline Capital Management, which had previously invested in security provider vArmour Inc. earlier this week, and saw Northgate Capital ...
Agari raises $22M to protect companies from phishing
More and more organizations are training their employees to identify fraudulent emails, but judging by the 270 percent increase in phishing incidents that the FBI has recorded since 2015, the effort isn’t nearly as effective as it could be. So CSOs are now turning to automated scam prevention providers like Agari Inc., which raised $22 ...
EMC releases a unikernel engine for building next-gen cloud apps
EMC Corp., the parent company of hypervisor maker VMware Inc,. is emerging as an unexpected force in the industry shift beyond traditional server virtualization. The company yesterday open-sourced a homegrown tool called Unik that is meant to streamline the creation of unikernels, a promising alternative to virtual machines and containers. Whereas the average vSphere or ...
If Demisto has its way, your company’s data will soon be protected by a chatbot
Hardly a week seems to go by nowadays without some fresh-faced startup introducing a new way of using chatbots in the enterprise. The latest addition to the list is Demisto Inc., which raised $6 million from private equity giant Accel and a number of angel investors this morning to harness the technology for network protection. ...
Report: Nokia to lay off 10,000-15,000 workers
Two years after selling its mobile business to Microsoft Corp., telecom equipment maker Nokia Corp. is reportedly bracing for another major organizational shake-up. Risto Lehtilahti, a union official from the company’s home country of Finland, revealed to Reuters today that between 10,000 and 15,000 employees could go out of work in the foreseeable future. The figure represents ...
Pattern gets $2.5M to help salespeople become more organized
By itself, a chore like writing down client requests or sending a thank-you note after signing a contract doesn’t require too much effort from salespeople. But over the course of a workday, such menial tasks end up consuming a lot of time that could otherwise be used to generate new business. The problem returned to the fore ...
Nutanix brings hyperconverged infrastructure to SMEs
The fact that hyperconverged appliances can be managed centrally makes them immensely appealing to small and midsize businesses with limited IT staff. However, SMEs often struggle to take advantage of the benefits since most systems are geared towards the enterprise crowd and carry a price tag to match. To try and remedy the situation, Nutanix ...
Druva is applying AWS’ on-demand pricing model to cloud backup
Amazon Inc. has built a multi-billion-dollar cloud empire by enabling organizations to spin up virtual machines through a simple web interface and bill them only for the hardware resources that they use. Now, Druva Inc. wants to replicate the company’s success in the data protection space by adopting a similar on-demand pricing model for its ...
Kafka gets a stream processing engine to compete with Spark and Samza
Apache Kafka was originally developed to complement stream processing engines such as Samza and Spark, but it may soon end up displacing them in many organizations if Confluent Inc. has its way. The startup, which was founded in 2014 by the original creators of the message broker, today released a real-time analytics module for the project ...