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Zoho announces new business intelligence and data preparation tools
Software-as-a-service business tools provider Zoho Corp. today announced a new business intelligence platform that combines its new data preparation application with an enhanced version of its analytics application to help companies gain better real-time insights to inform their business strategy. Zoho is a leading provider of cloud-based business applications, which cover a wide range of processes ...
MongoDB 5.0 release adds time-series data and serverless instances into the mix
MongoDB Inc. is updating its namesake document-oriented database, adding key enhancements such as time series support and a preview of serverless database in the cloud version of its platform. In addition to the MongoDB 5.0 release, the company announced some major enhancements to Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Search and MongoDB Realm during its MongoDB.live event today. ...
Cloud video surveillance platform startup Cloudastructure raises $28M
Cloud-based video surveillance infrastructure provider Cloudastructure Inc. said today it has secured $28 million in funding through the somewhat unusual route of a Regulation A+ offering. The company also said it has secured $21 million in exercisable warrants, bringing its total funding offered to $49 million. Cloudastructure has also filed to increase the Reg A+ offering ...
Amperity gets $100M later-stage funding to grow its customer data management platform
Customer data management company Amperity Inc. has joined the unicorn startup club after raising $100 million in a late-stage funding round that takes its market value to more than $1 billion. HighSage Ventures led today’s Series D round, with participation from existing investors Tiger Global Management, Declaration Partners, Madrona Venture Group and MaderaTechnology Partners, bringing ...
Impact, which helps companies manage partnerships with influencers and affiliates, raises $150M
Global partnership management platform provider Impact Tech Inc. is looking to expand after raising $150 million in funding. Today’s private equity funding round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Providence Public, bringing Impact’s valuation to $1.5 billion. Impact says its Partnership Cloud platform is designed to help brands shift from traditional advertising methods to ...
Arctic Wolf raises $150M for its security operations platform that blends software with human experts
Security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. has raised an additional $150 million in a late-stage funding round that takes its value to $4.3 billion. Viking Global Investors and Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital, led today’s Series F round, together with participation from other existing investors. Arctic Wolf sells a cloud-native managed ...
Dialpad integrates Meetings with its main app for more consistent, unified communications
Business communications-as-a-service provider Dialpad Inc. has revamped its voice-over-internet-protocol-based UberConference videoconferencing product. The new Dialpad Meetings product announced today adds new features and is meant to serve as a unified communications platform for companies that helps to simplify business collaboration and eliminate the growing phenomenon of “app overload.” Dialpad Meetings is based on the same ...
PC market braces for a decline as pandemic-driven sales boost fizzles out
Demand for personal computers appears to be running out of steam, with analysts saying today they predict a steady decline in shipments for the rest of the year. The PC market got a huge kick from the COVID-19 pandemic. That led to millions of professionals and students upgrading their PCs over the last year in ...
Gmail adds full support for the Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard
Google LLC today announced a small but potentially important email security update. It’s adding full support for the emerging Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard in Gmail. BIMI, as it’s called, helps email recipients to know that the message they’re receiving is an authentic one. The BIMI specification works by allowing companies to display their ...
Nvidia reveals how its BlueField DPUs boost Palo Alto Networks’ virtual firewall performance
Nvidia Corp. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. detailed today how they created what they say is a massively accelerated virtual next-generation firewall that doesn’t impact network performance. Announced in May, Palo Alto’s VM-Series NGFW helps to accelerate packet filtering and forwarding by offloading traffic from server processors to dedicated Nvidia BlueField-2 data processing units. It further speeds ...