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Growing competition in the chip market is driving Intel Corp. to aggressively hunt for new technologies that can help maintain its leadership position. According a tipster who recently spoke with The Register, the vendor has secretly acquired a startup called Soft Machines …
Zenedge raises $6.2 million for its AI-powered firewall
As hackers continue to improve their methods, organizations are swapping traditional security software for more modern products that can provide better protection against attacks. A Florida-based startup called Zenedge LLC raised $6.2 million in funding today to try and capitalize on the trend …
Google boosts cloud efforts with $625M Apigee acquisition
For the first time since absorbing Motorola Mobility Inc. in 2011, Google is acquiring a publicly traded company, announcing today that it’s buying cloud-based application programming interface management provider Apigee Inc. for $625 million. It’s a key move in Google’s attempt to …
Israel’s Proov raises $7M for its proof-of-concept cloud
There’s much more to buying software in the enterprise than just choosing the vendor with the most appealing value proposition. Organizations must also painstakingly test every product to see whether it works with their existing infrastructure, a task that Proov Inc. is looking …
IBM unveils new chip and servers for data-intensive workloads
Since exiting the commodity server market in 2014, IBM Corp. has been able to pay much more attention to its high-end machines. The latest fruit of the vendor’s efforts is a trio of Power LC models that are built to run complex artificial …
Fast-rising DevOps startup HashiCorp raises $24M in funding
For a startup that hit the scene in only 2012, HashiCorp Inc. punches above its weight. The outfit has seen its open-source application management tools downloaded millions of times in the last few years, recently passed the seven-figure quarterly sales mark and …
vArmour joins the deception-based security game
The growing interest in deception-based security software from startups like the recently funded GuardiCore Ltd. is starting to draw the attention of more established players as well. The latest entrant into the race is vArmour Inc., which today unveiled a new honeypot …
DigitalOcean offers $100K in cloud credits to startups
DigitalOcean Inc. is stepping up its efforts to court startups. The infrastructure-as-a-service provider today launched a program called Hatch that offers eligible teams $100,000 worth of free cloud resources plus training materials, priority support and other assistance. The initative aims to level …
Desktop-as-a-service startup Dizzion raises $6.4M amid growing competition
Like the rest of the IT industry, the desktop virtualization market is seeing more and more organizations switch from on-premise solutions to hosted alternatives that are easier to manage. One of the providers working to capitalize on the trend is a Denver-based …
What you missed on Big Data: Ease-of-use tops the agenda
It’s a rule of thumb in the technology world that the more accessible a product is, the more widely it will be adopted. As a result, analytics vendors constantly working to make it easier for customers to extract insight from their data. …