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Clarifai gets $60M in funding to simplify AI development on unstructured data
Another day and another artificial intelligence startup is raising money — and today it’s Clarifai Inc., which closed on a $60 million round led by New Enterprise Associates. Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital and New York University also participated in the Series C round, bringing Clarifai’s total amount raised to date ...
Elastic buys Optimyze to add ‘continuous profiling’ to its observability tools
Elastic N.V. is looking to create a full set of observability capabilities into its enterprise search platform after acquiring a startup called Optimyze Inc. today that specializes in continuous profiling. Three-year-old Optimyze is a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup that’s best known for its Prodfiler tool. Information technology teams use Prodfiler to monitor resources such as central processing ...
Canonical delivers Ubuntu 21.10 release with cloud-native features
Canonical Ltd. today announced a major update to the Ubuntu Linux operating system, with improvements that beef up security, enable cloud-native application development and enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation. The Ubuntu operating system is one of the most popular versions of the Linux operating system. It has a big presence in the enterprise, ...
NXP Semiconductors moves all of its chip design workloads to Amazon’s cloud
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has kicked off what could be the start of a new trend in the computer chipmaking industry, announcing that it’s moving the vast majority of its electronics design automation workloads to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. The company said today it has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. By ...
DevOps darling GitLab closes 35% above initial public offering price
Updated: DevOps company GitLab Inc. today closed its first day of stock trading a hefty 35% above its initial offering price. The stock had opened trading at 22% above its IPO offering price of $77 a share, which in turn was well above an already-elevated price range. The company raised more than $800 million in its IPO late Wednesday ...
Naveen Rao’s MosaicML debuts with a mission to improve machine learning training
Former Intel Corp. executives Naveen Rao and Hanlin Tang have gotten back into the startup game, announcing the launch of a new company called MosaicML today that promises to optimize machine learning. MosaicML is exiting stealth mode armed with $37 million in funding round led by Lux Capital DCVC, Future Ventures, Playground Global, AME, Correlation, ...
New Relic brings ‘instant observability’ to hundreds of applications
New Relic Inc. has unveiled its master plan to bring observability into more enterprise applications. The company announced an open-source ecosystem of “quickstarts” today that make it easy for software engineers to instrument observability, set up dashboards and receive alerts from their technology stack in a matter of minutes. New Relic bills itself as an ...
Aware raises $60M in funding to help manage compliance and risk in Slack and Teams
Collaboration tool governance startup Aware, incorporated as Nullable Inc., said today it has raised $60 million in a new round of funding. Goldman Sachs Growth Equity led the Series C round, with participation from previous investors, including Spring Mountain Capital, Blue Heron Capital, Allos Ventures, Ohio Innovation Fund, JobsOhio and Rev1 Ventures. Aware has built ...
Pure Storage and NetApp bring more data management capabilities to cloud-native apps
Data storage companies Pure Storage Inc. and NetApp Inc. are pushing forward in their efforts to solve the problem of data portability for cloud-native software. Pure Storage today announced a major update to Portworx by Pure Storage’s PX-Backup platform, while NetApp unveiled an entirely new product as part of its Astra suite of Kubernetes storage ...
TriggerMesh open-sources its application integration platform
Cloud-native integration platform company TriggerMesh Inc. said today it’s open-sourcing its flagship platform under the Apache Software License 3.0. The TriggerMesh Integration Platform makes it easy for enterprises to link together applications running in different clouds and on-premises data centers. That’s important, because most business applications need to integrate with other apps to perform business ...