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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …