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Dell confirms it has acquired Cloudify to boost its cloud orchestration capabilities
Dell Technologies Inc. today revealed it has quietly acquired Cloudify Ltd., which sells cloud orchestration tools for enterprises. Cloudify’s offerings are used by cloud architects and DevOps teams to manage workloads, software containers and other components of multicloud information technology environments. For reasons unknown, Dell didn’t make any official announcement regarding the acquisition itself. The story ...
Qualtrics beats the Street’s expectations with strong revenue growth
Experience management software firm Qualtrics International Inc. posted fourth-quarter financial results today that beat analysts’ expectations and offered strong guidance for the coming quarter, sending its stock higher in after-hours trading. The company reported a net loss of $256.4 million. Earnings, before certain costs such as stock compensation, came to three cents per share, improving ...
ServiceNow posts strong earnings beat as it promises no layoffs in 2023
Workflow automation giant ServiceNow Inc. delivered solid fourth-quarter financial results today, beating Wall Street’s forecasts on earnings and offering a confident outlook for the remainder of the year. The company also pledged to avoid making any layoffs, despite widespread job losses elsewhere in the industry. For the quarter just gone, ServiceNow reported earnings before certain ...
Google Cloud reveals how it’s powering the growth of a trio of innovative big data startups
Google Cloud today shared how three unique startups have adopted its “Data Cloud,” using services such as Google BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Vertex AI as the foundation of their data-centric businesses. In a blog post, Gerrit Kazmaier, vice president and general manager of database and analytics at Google Cloud, highlighted how Ocient Inc., SingleStore Inc. ...
Digital health insurance startup Angle Health closes on $58M round of funding
Digital-first health insurance startup Angle Health Inc. says it’s ready to transform the healthcare industry after closing on a $58 million early-stage round of funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Portage, with participation from new investors PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty Ventures, Mighty Capital, Wormhole Capital, Mindset Ventures, Aloft VC and Pilot.com ...
Gemba, a VR startup that’s creating a metaverse for workforce training, raises $18M in funding
Virtual reality workforce learning startup Gemba said today it has closed on an $18 million early-stage funding round that brings its value to $60 million. The U.K.-based startup, officially known as TLN Training Ltd., said today’s Series A round was led exclusively by New York based investor Parkway Venture Capital, with the funding to help accelerate its ...
AWS opens doors to new cloud infrastructure region in Melbourne, Australia
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its second cloud infrastructure region in Australia has opened its doors to customers. The announcement came as the company promised to invest an additional $4.5 billion in the country over the next decade. AWS announced the new region, ap-southeast-4, back in December 2020. It’s based in Melbourne and consists ...
F5’s stock slumps as revenue growth slows to a crawl
Shares of the network traffic management and application security firm F5 Inc. fell in extended trading today after the company delivered mixed first-quarter financial results, beating expectations on earnings but falling short on revenue. The company’s net profit for the quarter fell from last year, totaling $72.4 million, down from the $93.5 million profit it ...
Yugabyte simplifies SQL database migration with YugabyteDB Voyager
Yugabyte Inc. said today that its unified database migration service YugabyteDB Voyager is now generally available, giving enterprises a simplified way to migrate workloads to its open-source distributed YugabyteDB platform. With the new offering, Yugabyte says, companies now have the option to leave behind the limitations of legacy and single-cloud databases and move to its ...
Data center-as-a-service startup ECL exits stealth with $7M in seed funding
Edge Cloud Link Inc., a sustainable, off-grid data center-as-a-service startup, exited stealth mode today armed with $7 million in seed funding to deliver on the idea of 3D-printed data centers that use hydrogen as their primary power source. Today’s round was led by Molex Ventures and saw participation from Hyperwise Ventures, and the funds will ...