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Perforce acquires Seapine to expand into application lifecycle management
Version control and source code management company Perforce Software Inc. just announced its acquisition of Seapine Software Inc., a provider of application lifecycle management solutions, to expand its portfolio of enterprise developer and designer tools. From the drawing board to under the customer’s fingers, developing and deploying an application passes through many hands in the ...
Graphics processor services coming to Google Cloud in 2017
Google Inc. early next year will start offering graphics processing unit chips as a computing service alongside the standard processors in its cloud computing platform, in an effort to make it easier for enterprises to use machine learning. While central processing unit chips such as Intel Corp.’s are commonly used for versatile, general-purpose computing problems, GPUs ...
PwC’s Vulcan fuses three blockchain providers into one fintech solution
Financial technology consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers today announced the release of its new fintech platform, Vulcan Digital Asset Services, designed to put the power of digital tokens in the hands of business and the enterprise. To make this all happen, PwC’s Vulcan platform is built in conjunction with digital identity company Netki, enterprise blockchain solutions provider ...
IMAX raises $50 million fund to jumpstart move into virtual reality
IMAX Corp., the cinema technology company best known for its theaters with giant screens and 3D technology, has completed the first phase of a $50 million virtual reality fund. Investing alongside IMAX other partners include Acer Inc., one of the world’s premium hardware and manufacturing companies; and Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading entertainment and ...
xMatters DevOps platform links with Zendesk marketplace
xMatters Inc. announced today that the DevOps communication automation platform’s capabilities have been integrated into Zendesk’s marketplace. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zendesk Inc. is a customer service platform provider that builds software to improve customer engagement. This integration with xMatters adds enterprise-level features that quickly notify the right on-call resources, at the right time, and ...
IBM Bluemix Garage Method site expands cloud-native DevOps architecture tutorials
IBM Corp. just announced the addition of cloud-native DevOps architecture tutorials and code samples for toolchains on the company’s Bluemix Garage Method website. IBM is looking to give businesses integrating DevOps — the practice of closing the gap between development and operations teams by emphasizing collaboration and automation — a top-down organizational view of how ...
BlockApps brings power of blockchain as a service to China
BlockApps, a startup focused on bringing the Etherium blockchain to enterprise companies, has announced the introduction of blockchain as a Service in China during the International Blockchain Week 2016 in Shanghai. Blockchains are a technology for distributed ledgers that can be used to provide cryptographic proof-of-publish, digital signing and other capabilities. As a platform, a ...
DroneDeploy launches the first app market for drones
Cloud-based drone platform DroneDeploy today announced the opening of its App Market, the first drone industry app store. The store launched with more than 15 apps directed at businesses using drones. It also provides access to the world’s largest dataset of drone 2D maps and 3D models. The company’s new App Market will provide a one-stop ...
Hackers now favor Internet of Things botnets for attacks
Attackers are turning away from reflection-style attacks, which use Internet services to amplify traffic, toward compromised Internet of Things devices, according to the recently released Q3 2016 DDoS Threat Report from distributed denial of service security firm Nexusguard Inc. An Oct. 16 attack used a host of compromised IoT devices to knock numerous major services offline including ...
Blockchain-powered image attribution engine launches to credit creators
Anyone who wants to find images from the Internet to use in social or other media has huge burdens: attributing the image to the creator and even making sure it’s OK to use it. To solve that issue, blockchain-powered startup Mediachain Labs last week announced the official release of an open-source image attribution platform that aims ...