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Machine learning automation startup DataRobot lands $100M round
Well-funded machine learning startup DataRobot Inc. has just added $100 million more to its war chest via a late-stage round of funding led by Meritech and Sapphire Ventures. DFJ Growth and existing investors NEA, IA Ventures and Intel Capital also participated in the Series D round, which brings DataRobot’s total funding to date to $225 million. ...
ServiceNow beats earnings forecast as customer acquisition strategy gathers speed
Updated: ServiceNow Inc. is feeling good about itself after posting solid financial results again in its latest quarter, beating market expectations and seeing its stock price edge upwards in after-hours trading. The company, which sells workflow automation software to enterprises, reported third-quarter income before certain costs such as stock compensation of $129 million, or 72 ...
Former Microsoft Windows boss Terry Myerson becomes a venture capitalist
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Terry Myerson is joining the venture capital business about six months after announcing his departure from the Redmond-based software giant. Myerson, a 21-year company veteran who most recently served as Microsoft’s executive vice president of Windows and Devices, quit the company in the summer after announcing plans to do so in March. ...
NetApp extends its ability to manage data across multiple clouds
NetApp Inc. is taking another key step in its transition from a traditional storage company to one that’s more focused on managing data in the emerging landscape of multicloud environments. At its NetApp Insight conference Tuesday, the company announced a number of new public and hybrid cloud products aimed at making data management easier. The new products ...
All-flash data warehouse startup Yellowbrick Data raises $48M
Ambitious data warehouse startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today said it has landed a second chunky funding round, barely three months after it emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in financing. This time around it has raised $48 million in a Series B round of financing led by Next47, with participation from new investor DFJ Growth and ...
Baidu creates the world’s first simultaneous translation system
Baidu Inc.’s advances in artificial intelligence often go unheralded next to the likes of Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. But the company is actually one of the leaders in the field, having developed its own specialized chip for AI workloads, an operating system for AI, cancer-detecting algorithms and even a no-code platform that lets unskilled ...
HashiCorp updates its infrastructure automation suite for hybrid clouds
Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. is using its HashiConf event this week in San Francisco as a launchpad for a number of new products and updates aimed at helping companies better manage their multicloud information technology deployments. HashiCorp specializes in automating the increasingly complex process of rolling out applications and infrastructure across diverse environments that include ...
Tableau users can now query their data in natural language
Software makers these days are all about providing tools that can help ordinary business workers make more sense of their company’s data and the insights this can generate. Tableau Software Inc., one of the leading data analytics firms around, is no different in this regard, so it’s adding a new feature called Ask Data that allows ...
Rookout adds breakpoints to Kubernetes, making container apps easier to debug
Rapid debugging tools startup Rookout Inc. is bringing its capabilities to Kubernetes, meaning that developers who use software containers to build their applications can locate and fix any problems with their apps more easily. Rookout’s main focus up until now has been on providing debugging tools for serverless computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services ...
At OpenWorld, Oracle debuts new AI-powered cloud app services
Oracle Corp. is putting software as a service at the forefront of its cloud strategy as it kicks off its annual Oracle OpenWorld conference today in San Francisco with a number of important updates to its cloud application portfolio. The updates leverage Oracle’s continuing investments in areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a ...
