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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 ...
Microsoft is using boiling liquid to cool one of its Azure data centers
Microsoft Corp. revealed today that it has been experimenting with what it calls a “two-phase immersion cooling technology” using a liquid that boils at extremely low temperatures to keep its data centers cool. The company explained in a post today on its Innovation blog that it has already implemented the technology in production at its ...
Google open-sources Lyra codec for high-quality voice calls with very low bandwidth
Google LLC said today it has open-sourced a codec called Lyra that relies on machine learning to enable high-quality voice calls in low bandwidth situations. Lyra, which is now hosted on GitHub, can compress audio down to as little as 3 kilobits per second while still ensuring a sound quality that compares well with other ...
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo debut new servers based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors
Data center infrastructure providers Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. all announced refreshed server lineups today that feature Intel Corp.’s new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new Intel chips launched today are based on an improved architecture that’s said to provide built-in acceleration for a range of data center ...
Dell expands its data protection with new PowerProtect Backup Service
Dell Technologies Inc. is stepping up its cloud data backup capabilities with the launch of a new data protection service designed to safeguard software-as-a-service applications and other cloud workloads. In a blog post today, Laura Dubois, vice president of product management at Dell’s Data Protection product management organization, said enterprises are rapidly embracing SaaS applications ...
Tessian updates its intelligence platform to strengthen employee security behavior
Enterprise security firm Tessian Ltd., which sells tools that enable companies to assess the risk posed to their data and systems by their employees, is adding a new Human Layer Risk Hub to its platform. Tessian debuted its Human Layer Security Intelligence platform last year. It’s tools are designed to reduce the risk of accidental ...