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Domo’s BI platform gets a dose of multicloud and embedded analytics
Business intelligence platform provider Domo Inc. announced a major platform update today at its Domopalooza 2021 virtual user conference, with enhanced embedded analytics capabilities, more multicloud proficiency and an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. among the highlights. The new capabilities in Domo Everywhere, the company’s hub of embedded analytics tools, are supposed to ...
Developer cloud provider DigitalOcean’s stock drops on its public market debut
Developer-focused cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean Inc. launched its initial public offering today, but if it was expecting a stock pop it will have been sorely disappointed, as its shares lost almost 10% of their value on its first day of trading. The company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ...
Cisco and HashiCorp partner to bring infrastructure-as-code to on-premises environments
Cisco Systems Inc. said today that it’s integrating its cloud-based data center management service Intersight with HashiCorp Inc.’s multicloud infrastructure automation service Terraform. The integration will provide Cisco Intersight customers with an easier way to automate and provision multicloud infrastructure using “infrastructure-as-code,” the companies said. “Our goal is to bridge the gap between private and ...
Amazon Web Services partners with Hugging Face to simplify AI-based natural language processing
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s partnering with an artificial intelligence startup called Hugging Face Inc. as part of an effort to simplify and accelerate the adoption of natural language processing models. Hugging Face is a New York City-based startup that’s best known for its Transformers library, which makes it easy to access a ...
Adobe smashes earnings targets with double-digit cloud growth
Adobe Inc. ended its first quarter in a strong way, posting record sales, easily beating market expectations on earnings and revenue and raising its targets for the full year. The design software company today reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.14 per share on revenue of $3.91 billion, up 26% ...
ServiceNow buys Intellibot to bring robotic process automation into its toolbox
ServiceNow Inc. is getting into the robotic process automation game. The cloud automation company announced today it will buy the Indian RPA startup Intellibot for an undisclosed price. It said the deal should close by the end of the second quarter. ServiceNow, led by its Chief Executive Bill McDermott (pictured), announced the acquisition at a time ...
Haystack debuts a modern intranet platform for remote workers
Self-styled communications and information hub provider Haystack Inc. is exiting stealth mode today with a modern intranet platform that it says can help enterprises to provide better security for their remote workforces. Haystack said it’s launching its “employee experience platform” after raising $8.2 million from investors that include Coatue Management, Greycroft, BoxGroup and Day One ...
Quantum Brilliance unveils diamond-based quantum accelerator that can run at room temperature
A new quantum computing startup called Quantum Brilliance emerged from stealth mode today with what may prove to be a rather brilliant innovation: the world’s first quantum accelerator that can run at room temperature. The company has created a diamond-based quantum accelerator that it says does not have to be held in a near absolute ...
Managed open-source software startup Aiven raises $100M in Series C funding
Aiven Ltd., a company that provides fully managed services for open-source technologies on the most popular public cloud platforms, announced a $100 million funding round today that brings its total amount raised to $150 million. Atomico led the Series C round together with participation from Salesforce Ventures and World Innovation Lab, plus existing investors Earlybird ...
Identity verification provider Jumio gets $150M in private equity funding
Digital identity management and verification startup Jumio Corp. said today it has secured financing for its next stage of growth, a $150 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners. Jumio said it’s the single largest funding round to date in the digital identity space. The company said it highlights the growing importance businesses ...
