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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Pendo claims ‘unicorn’ status after bagging $100M in new funding
Software application optimization company Pendo.io Inc. is the latest tech unicorn after announcing today it has raised an even $100 million in a late-stage round of funding. The Series E round brings Pendo’s total amount raised to $206 million and sets a valuation …