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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Periscope Data raises $25M to boost cloud data visualization service
As data becomes increasingly essential to making business decisions, organizations are adopting new tools that can help their users access important information more easily. One of the startups working to capitalize on the trend is San Francisco-based Periscope Data Inc., which raised $25 …