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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 ...
With new SDK, Zoom aims to get more developers to embed video into their apps
Zoom Video Communications Inc. on Monday made a number of announcements focused on software developers that should help to expand its video calling software ecosystem into more apps. The updates include an easier way for developers to access its software development kit to embed Zoom’s video services inside their applications. The new Buy Now option ...
Open-source robotic process automation firm Camunda raises €82M in new round
Open-source automation software company Camunda Services GmbH said today it has raised €82 million (about $100 million) in a new round of funding. Private equity firm Insight Partners led the Series B round, with participation from existing investors Highland Europe. Camunda is an emerging player in the red-hot robotic process automation market that involves using software robots ...
Box tightens its integration with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams
Cloud storage provider Box Inc. is stepping up its integrations with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams as it bids to make it easier for users of those platforms to access and collaborate on content. For example, today’s integrations enable Box notifications to appear directly within Microsoft Teams, so users can see any important updates to ...
VMware buys cloud-native observability platform startup Mesh7
Data center software giant VMware Inc. is beefing up its cloud-native security offerings with the acquisition of a startup called Mesh7 Inc. for an undisclosed price. Today’s deal reflects the growing importance enterprises are placing on securing their cloud-native applications and the microservices that are used to build them. Mesh7 is a cloud-native application security ...
Amazon S3 Object Lambda makes it easy to process same data for different apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new tool for customers that makes it simple to prepare the same dataset for multiple application requirements. The S3 Object Lambda tool works by retrieving data from the Amazon S3 Simple Storage service and automatically processing and transforming it for each app that needs to use it. AWS Chief ...
Google debuts A2 VMs powered by Nvidia A100 GPUs, its largest cloud instances yet
Google LLC announced general availability of a new family of Compute Engine A2 virtual machines today that are based on Nvidia Corp.’s Ampere A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units. The new VMs are the first in the world to pack 16 of Nvidia’s A100 GPUs into a single VM, making them the largest single-node GPU ...
PagerDuty reports solid earnings but stock falls on wider projected loss
Shares of incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. fell almost 5% in after-hours trading today after it projected a net loss for the next year that’s larger than Wall Street’s view. That came despite a strong fiscal fourth-quarter performance that saw the company beat expectations on earnings and revenue. The company reported a loss before certain ...
