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VMware’s Cloud Foundation gets support for persistent data storage
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. today updated its popular VMware Cloud Foundation offering with new improvements centered on storage, networking and management for virtual machine- and container-based applications. VMware Cloud Foundation is the company’s hybrid cloud platform for managing VMs and orchestrating software containers, which are used to host the components of modern, agile applications. It’s an ...
Qualcomm enjoys massive earnings growth but misses revenue forecast
Smartphone chip company Qualcomm Inc.’s first-quarter financial results came in a bit mixed today, with profit just beating expectations and revenue falling short. Despite strong guidance for the next quarter, the company’s stock fell after-hours. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.17 per share on revenue of $8.235 billion, up ...
Serverless data-sharing startup Vendia raises $15.5M in new funding
Serverless data-sharing platform startup Vendia Inc. said today it has secured $15.5 million in a new early-stage round of financing, just six months after it launched with $5.1 million in seed funding. Canvas Ventures led the Series A round with participation from BMW Capital, Sorenson Capital and several of the investors from the initial seed ...
Evinced raises $17M in Series A funding to automate web accessibility
Evinced Inc., a startup that has built tools designed to make websites and software applications more accessible to people with disabilities, said today it has raised $17 million in an early-stage round of funding. Microsoft Corp.’s venture fund M12 co-led the Series A round with BGV and Capital One Ventures. Engineering Capital, a seed investor ...
Data center optimization startup Granulate raises $30M round
Real-time computing workload optimization startup Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. said today it has closed a $30 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $45 million to date. Red Dot Capital Partners led the Series B round, together with existing investors Insight Partners, TLV Partners, and Hetz Ventures, plus new investor Dawn ...
Ubuntu Core 20 release beefs up security for IoT and edge devices
Ubuntu operating system developer Canonical Ltd. today announced that Ubuntu Core 20, its containerized OS for “internet of things” devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. The company said Ubuntu Core 20 is a “major release” that brings it in line with the Ubuntu 20.04 release that debuted in 2020. The main updates are centered on ...
FireEye reports record quarterly revenue, aims for $1B in sales in 2021
Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. announced record fourth-quarter revenue today and said that it could top $1 billion in sales for the first time in 2021. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 12 cents per share on revenue of $248 million, up 5% from a year ago. That was better ...
MongoDB’s Realm Sync enables data sharing between edge devices and public cloud
Document-oriented database company MongoDB Inc. said today that a new service called Realm Sync is now generally available to all customers. Realm Sync is a fully managed service that lets users synchronize their data between its MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Realm databases. MongoDB Atlas is a cloud database that’s popular with developers thanks to its ...
Machine learning experiment tracking startup Weights and Biases raises $45M
Machine learning startup Weights and Biases Inc. said today it has raised $45 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $65 million. The Series B round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Coatue, Trinity Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. Weights and Biases has created a platform for ...
Microsoft brings its Azure Quantum cloud service into public preview
Microsoft Corp. said today that its Azure Quantum platform that lets customers play around with quantum computing tools built by its hardware and software partners is now in public preview. The company wants researchers and developers to start using its quantum cloud service to explore, build and test new applications that can take advantage of ...