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Former Google VP Chet Kapoor joins DataStax as CEO
Database company DataStax Inc. has a new chief executive officer today: former Google LLC Vice President Chet Kapoor. He replaces outgoing CEO Billy Bosworth, who will leave the company in a few weeks following a short transition period. Bosworth said in a blog post that DataStax began its search for a new CEO earlier this year, ...
Big-data firm Databricks bags $400M late-stage funding round
Investors are upping their stakes in the big data company Databricks Inc., which today said it has bagged a massive $400 million round of funding. The Series F round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Late Stage Venture Fund and saw participation from new investors BlackRock Inc., T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and Tiger Capital Management. ...
Splunk offers expanded data access and real-time stream processing
Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. early today announced the general availability of its new Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor capabilities in the on-premises and cloud versions of its Data-to-Everything Platform. The goal, it said, is to enable federated search and stream processing at a massive scale. Announced at its annual .conf19 event ...
Adobe brings its Magento e-commerce platform to AWS and Azure
Adobe Systems Inc. today announced some updates to its Magento Commerce platform that’s used by small and medium businesses to run their e-commerce operations. Adobe acquired the open-source Magento platform for $1.68 billion last year. The Magento Commerce platform is an online retail system that had processed $155 billion in annual sales for merchants at the ...
Nvidia debuts supercomputing platform to deliver AI at the network edge
Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles late Monday to announce availability of its new EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform that’s all about harnessing so-called “edge data” for artificial intelligence purposes. Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang (pictured) said EGX would enable companies to harness rapidly streaming data ...
IBM debuts new capabilities for Watson Anywhere AI initiative
IBM Corp. today updated its Watson AI tools to help customers eliminate some of the data complexities that prevent them from implementing artificial intelligence-based technologies. The updates are all part of IBM’s so-called “Watson Anywhere” initiative that involves scaling AI across any kind of cloud computing platform. Watson Anywhere’s main aim is to make data accessible ...
Rebranded as Virtana, Virtual Instruments debuts cloud cost optimization platform
Virtual Instruments Inc. is moving beyond simple information technology infrastructure management, rebranding itself as “Virtana” and debuting a new cloud cost optimization platform called “CloudWisdom” that’s tightly integrated with its main offering. The company makes a living selling tools that help enterprises to understand, manage, optimize and automate their hybrid information technology environments. It’s useful ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS
IT spending is falling, but cloud sees more acceleration
Enterprises are tightening the purse strings in the fourth quarter of 2019, with spending on information technology infrastructure set to fall from a year ago. That’s according to the latest forecast from Enterprise Technology Research. Dave Vellante, chief analyst at SiliconANGLE sister market research firm Wikibon and co-host of theCUBE, ran down the details in the ...
Call tracking company Invoca raises $56 million
Call tracking and conversational analytics platform provider Invoca Inc. said today it has raised $56 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $116 million. Existing investor Upfront Ventures and new investor H.I.G. Growth Partners co-led the round, which saw participation from other backers as well, including Accel and Morgan ...
Atlassian acquires Jira automation startup Code Barrel
Business productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. said today it’s buying a company called Code Barrel Pty Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Code Barrel sells a popular automation tool for Atlassian’s project tracking software Jira, which enables users at more than 6,000 organizations to automate routine operations without writing any code. Atlassian said its plan ...