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IBM buys cloud consultancy firm Taos Mountain
IBM Corp. said today it’s buying the managed and professional information technology services provider Taos Mountain LLC. San Jose, California-based Taos is said to be one of the largest multicloud consulting firms in North America, working with major enterprises to deliver managed services such as data center migration, platform engineering and hybrid cloud. The acquisition ...
Carbyne raises $25M in funding to transform 911 emergency response
Self-styled emergency technology startup Carbyne Ltd. said today it has closed on a $25 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $53 million. Hanaco Ventures and ELSTED Capital Partners led the Series B1 round, with participation from former CIA Director General David Petraeus and existing investors including Founders Fund and FinTLV. ...
Google and Nokia partner on cloud-native 5G edge infrastructure
Google LLC said today it’s working with the Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia Corp. to deliver advanced 5G networking solutions to communications service providers and enterprises. The aim is to help cloud service providers or CSPs and other enterprises modernize their network infrastructures and build on a “cloud-native 5G core,” the companies said. They will then ...
Swimm raises $5.7M in seed funding round and launches its unique code-sharing platform
Codebase tutorial provider Swimm Tech Ltd. said today it has raised $5.7 million in a seed funding round led by Pitango First. TAU Ventures, Axon Ventures and Fundfire, plus a group of high profile angel investors including the founder of code security provider Snyk Ltd., participated in the round as well. Swimm also announced the ...
VMware debuts Tanzu Advanced & Project Iris
VMware Inc. said today it’s adding a new product to its Tanzu portfolio for building and managing modern container-based applications. VMware Tanzu Advanced is said to build upon VMware Tanzu Standard, adding more focus on DevSecOps, which is a set of practices that combines software development and information technology operations. The aim of DevSecOps is ...
Microsoft’s vertical cloud platform for retail now in preview
Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch in preview of its second vertical cloud, and this time it’s targeting retailers with the promise of helping them to unlock their data and transform it into actionable insights. The Microsoft Cloud for Retail comes about two months after the launch of its first vertical cloud platform for healthcare ...
Oracle Database 21c update lands on Oracle’s cloud
Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of its updated flagship database offering, Oracle Database 21c, on its cloud infrastructure, featuring a raft of additions such as blockchain tables and artificial intelligence features. The launch of Oracle Database 21c, available today on the Oracle Cloud, comes alongside a new browser-based version of the low-code Oracle APEX ...
Amazon announces global expansion of its Contact Center Intelligence tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. is expanding the focus of its Contact Center Intelligence services that customers can use to add artificial intelligence capabilities to their contact center operations. AWS CCI can now be used with customer’s existing contact center providers to deliver new efficiencies, create more customized customer experience and get deeper insights from data, ...
Internal debuts its no-code platform with low-code capabilities
No-code application development startup Console Corp., which does business as Internal, announced today the launch of its platform that enables enterprise workers to build internal company tools to help them get work done faster. The company said its platform makes it possible for enterprises to open up internal application development to anyone within their organization, ...
No-code workflow automation startup airSlate raises $40M
Workflow automation startup airSlate Inc., which sells a “no-code” platform that helps office workers automate various business processes, said today it has closed on $40 million in additional investment. The funding, which comes from from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, General Catalyst and HighSage Ventures, brings its total amount raised to $80 million to date. AirSlate’s ...