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Cloud price wars escalate as Microsoft slashes compute rates
Two weeks into the new year, the public cloud is already witnessing its first major skirmish. Microsoft Corp. this week made a significant price cut to one the most popular virtual machine types on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform in response to a series of similar markdowns that archnemesis Amazon Inc. announced over the preceding days. The first ...
IBM buys German machine learning firm to combat fraud
As the growing use of counterfeit prevention technology in credit cards makes traditional payment fraud increasingly difficult to pull off, hackers are turning to new and more sophisticated methods in order to target their victims. IBM Corp. wants to help the banking industry maintain its edge in this intensifying game of cat-and-mouse with the acquisition ...
VeloCloud snags $27 million from Cisco and friends to take SDN beyond the data center
It’s always notable when a top enterprise vendor invests in an up-and-coming startup, even if that startup doesn’t count more than 100 major global brands among its clientele like VeloCloud Inc. does. The four-year-old outfit announced this morning that it secured a $27 million investment from Cisco Systems Inc. and several leading venture capital firms ...
Amazon launches new time-constrained instance type for sporadic workloads
While its broad selection of capabilities is often the first selling point that comes up during industry discussions, the credit for Amazon Inc.’s massive success in the public cloud is split equally with its accommodative business model. The company has been consciously working to preserve its edge on that front by providing increasingly convenient purchasing ...
App Annie raises a massive $63 million to widen mobile analytics lead
Like practically every other part of the technology world, the mobile application ecosystem is also undergoing major changes thanks to the introduction of data insights into the picture. Much of the credit for the rapid adoption of the trend among developers goes to App Annie Inc., which raised $63 million in new funding this morning ...
Atlassian tackles technical support pains with first post-IPO update
Providing technical support is an unavoidable part of the modern IT professional’s work, but much of the time spent handling service requests nowadays is wasted on unnecessary drudgery that can be automated with the right tooling. Atlassian Inc. hopes to fill the role with the new iteration of its ticketing software that debuted this morning, ...
Looker bags $48M from Kleiner Perkins to grow overseas
Another week, another business intelligence startup raising funds to tap the exploding demand for analytics. Looker Data Sciences Inc. this morning announced the completion of a $48 million investment round led by venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) that will help finance its international expansion plans. The push overseas is meant to ...
Cisco tackles cloud overspending with new service
With worldwide public cloud spending estimated to have reached $70 billion last year, the market for cost management solutions is naturally on the rise, both in terms of revenue and the number of vendors looking to carve out a slice of the pie. The latest major player to throw its hat into the ring is ...
Distil Networks bolsters bot hunting service with first acquisition
Although the security operations of the modern enterprise are becoming increasingly automated thanks to the growing use of machine learning in network protection software, a human touch is still needed to pull everything into working order. That’s the reasoning behind Distil Networks Inc.’s newly announced acquisition of ScrapeSentry Inc., a professional services outfit that specializes ...
Elastifile raises $35 million for its universal all-flash storage stack
Just as declining memory prices have given rise to new analytics solutions that avoid the reliance of traditional data processing software on cheaper but slower spinning disk, so is the increasing accessibility of flash driving a shift to faster architectures over in the storage arena. The newest player that is trying to seize the trend ...