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Nvidia announces Omniverse Enterprise suite for real-time, photorealistic graphics design
Nvidia Corp. has long touted the ability of its extremely powerful graphics processing units in advanced 3D product design, and now it’s making it possible for teams to collaborate on their projects in real time in a shared virtual space. The new Nvidia Omniverse Enterprise offering announced today at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference virtual event makes it ...
Amazon launches Lookout for Equipment, its predictive maintenance service for factory machines
Industrial machine operators might want to take a closer look at a new service from Amazon Web Services Inc. that uses machine learning to help them schedule maintenance work on their equipment. The Amazon Lookout for Equipment service was made generally available today, and works by amassing data from sensors installed on manufacturing equipment and ...
Workers at Amazon’s Alabama warehouse vote against joining union
Updated: Amazon.com Inc. appears to have won a historic union election vote at one of its biggest warehouse facilities. According to a Wall Street Journal count Friday morning, warehouse workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted not to unionize. With 72% of the 3,215 mail-in ballots, about half the nearly 6,000 eligible workers, about ...
Computer vision startup CrowdAI launches with $10M Series A funding
Startup CrowdAI Inc. announced the official launch of its artificial intelligence-based customized VisionAI platform today alongside a $6.25 million round of funding. Threshold Ventures led the Series A round, together with participation from Susa Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Jerry Yang at AME Cloud, and Y Combinator. The raise brings its total funding to date ...
Automated development environment startup Gitpod raises $13M
Open-source developer platform startup Gitpod GmbH said today it has raised $13 million in funding and made several updates to its platform that are aimed at accelerating software development in the cloud. The round, led by General Catalyst, will be used to help Gitpod expand its position in the emerging developer environment automation business while ...
Business messaging platform Gupshup raises $100M
Conversational messaging platform Gupshup, which is owned and operated by Webaroo Inc., said today it has raised $100 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion. The funding comes from Tiger Global Management, and Gupshup said it will soon be followed by a second injection of capital from more investors that it ...
Gartner: Digital transformation will drive even more tech spending
Enterprise executives will spend big on digital transformation this year, and that will help to drive overall global information technology spending by 8.4%, to $4.1 trillion, by the end of 2021. That’s according to a new update from research firm Gartner Inc. of its first prediction in January that IT spending would hit $3.9 trillion this ...
Okta debuts privileged access and identity governance tools to expand market reach
Cloud identity management firm Okta Inc. is building on the launch of its revamped developer experience earlier this week with the planned release of new products that will help it significantly expand its market opportunity. It’s also partnering with the content delivery provider Fastly Inc. to help that company protect users against “Layer 7 threats” ...
VMware Carbon Black expands container security through the entire CI/CD lifecycle
Software virtualization giant VMware Inc. is expanding its container and Kubernetes security capabilities with a key update to its VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload offering announced today. The update, the company said, will increase visibility for containerized applications throughout the development lifecycle, from build to deployment in the cloud or on-premises. VMware Carbon Black Cloud ...
IBM Cloud for Financial Services now generally available with expanded partner ecosystem
IBM Corp. hit a key milestone today when it announced that the world’s first financial services-ready public cloud is now ready for prime time. The company has been working on IBM Cloud for Financial Services for a long time. The offering was first revealed back in 2019 when IBM said it was working alongside Bank ...