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Snowplow Analytics raises $40M to grow its behavioral data crunching platform
Snowplow Analytics Ltd., a startup that helps businesses collect and own their customer data, said today it has closed on a new $40 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $55 million. Today’s Series B round was led by the venture capital firm NEA, with participation from existing investors Atlantic Bridge ...
Helios raises $5M to simplify distributed app development with easier troubleshooting
A startup called Heliosphere Ltd. is hoping to make life easier for developers by simplifying troubleshooting during application development, after closing on a $5 million seed funding round. Today’s round was co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC, and saw participation from numerous angel investors too, such as Benny Schnaider, co-founder of Salto Labs and ...
DataStax launches Astra Streaming for continuous processing of real-time data streams
Database company DataStax Inc. is boosting its offerings with the launch of its Astra Streaming data streaming service in general availability. Astra Streaming, built atop the open-source Apache Pulsar project, is designed to help enterprise customers get more value from their real-time data streams by analyzing that information as it’s created. Often considered a rival ...
Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy to make storage easy for remote workers
Cloud file data services firm Nasuni Corp. is expanding its capabilities to remote workers with the acquisition of Vehara Ltd., which is better known as Storage Made Easy. Nasuni announced the acquisition for an undisclosed price today, saying it will buy the entire company and its full product set, adding its staff to its own ...
Intel announces breakthrough in integrated silicon photonics, paving the way for faster networking interconnects
Researchers at Intel Corp. today announced they have made some noteworthy progress in the area of integrated silicon photonics, paving the way for faster networking between processors. Intel Labs claimed that its research represents “the next frontier” in expanding the communications bandwidth between compute processors in data centers and across networks. Silicon photonics is a ...
Google Cloud expands Earth Engine to help businesses and governments boost sustainability
Google Cloud is doing its bit to help big businesses become more sustainable, making its Earth Engine service available to enterprises and governments today. Announced at the Google Cloud Sustainability Summit today, the tool is said to provide access to more than 70 petabytes of “analysis-ready geospatial data.” Google Earth Engine is not a new product. ...
Google Cloud Armor adds rate limiting, bot management, threat intelligence and more
Google Cloud said today it’s adding to Cloud Armor’s capabilities to ward off the growing sophistication and intensity of cyberattacks against its cloud customers. Google Cloud Armor is the company’s main networking defense service, which is used both internally to protect services including Gmail and YouTube, and externally to safeguard customer’s own applications and services. ...
Sysdig adds Drift Control to protect against container modification risk
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced the eneral availability of a new feature called Drift Control aimed at preventing cyberattacks at runtime. With Drift Control, the company said, teams can detect, prevent and speed up incident response for software containers that have been modified in production. Sysdig sells tools for securing container environments that are ...
Yugabyte intros new migration engine for its powerful distributed database
Yugabyte Inc. today announced what it says are the most extensive set of updates ever made to its database ecosystem. The startup is the chief developer behind YugabyteDB, an open-source and high-performance distributed structured query language database that’s used to power global, internet-scale applications. YugabyteDB is known for features such as its high-performing document store, ...
Industrial giant Siemens to buy Brightly Software in $1.58B deal
The German industrial giant Siemens AG said today it has agreed to buy U.S.-based asset management software firm Brightly Software Inc. for $1.58 billion, with the deal expected to close before the end of the year. Brightly Software will be integrated with the Siemens Smart Infrastructure division, which sells digital systems that are used to ...