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Scalyr’s application monitoring platform adds Kubernetes to the mix
Cloud-based application monitoring startup Scalyr Inc. today is updating its platform to make it easier to monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments. The company is also adding support for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s CloudWatch monitoring and management service. Scalyr stepped up into the spotlight late last year when it secured a $20 million early-stage funding round led ...
ThoughtSpot adds voice search to its business intelligence platform
Business intelligence software provider ThoughtSpot Inc. is adding a new feature called SearchIQ in the latest release of its platform today. The update provides natural language processing and search-by-voice capabilities via an intelligent layer that sits atop of ThoughtSpot’s existing relational search engine. What this means is that users can now ask questions about their ...
Robotic process automation firm UiPath grabs more funding at $3B valuation
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. seems to know a thing or two about getting investors to part with their cash. The company, which recently landed a massive $225 million Series C funding round led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG venture arm, early today said it has closed on an “extension” of that round with an ...
Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
Hell-bent on pushing their so-called “digital transformation” agendas, enterprises will spend almost $2 trillion a year by 2022 in order to get there, according to a new analysis from International Data Corp. The research firm said enterprises will spend a combined $1.97 trillion on technologies that enable the digital transformation of their businesses in 2022, ...
SurveyMonkey’s shares jump on its first earnings report since IPO
Survey software company SurveyMonkey Inc. cheered investors Tuesday with a smaller-than-expected loss in its first quarterly earnings report since going public. Revenue also came in above estimates, helping the company’s stock jump in after-hours trading. The San Mateo, California-based company reported an adjusted loss of a penny a share. Revenue was up 18 percent to $65.2 ...
Cisco hardens its SD-WAN networking platform to secure cloud-hosted apps
Cisco Systems Inc. is fusing the best of its security software offerings with its software-defined wide area network tools announced today, in a bid to help secure modern applications no matter where they’re accessed from. Cisco’s SD-WAN platform is used to connect enterprise networks such as branch offices and data centers over large geographic distances. ...
Google builds AI model that accurately distinguishes among human voices
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit has made some big advances in its efforts to build a system that can accurately distinguish among different human voices. The system employs something called “speaker diarization,” defined as the process of partitioning out a speech sample into distinctive homogeneous segments according to which speaker said what. This process comes ...
Cloud companies form Ceph Foundation to advance object storage tech
The Linux Foundation Monday announced the formation of a new “Ceph Foundation” backed by more than 30 major technology firms hoping to support and manage the popular open-source storage technology. Ceph is a unified and distributed storage system used by some of the world’s largest cloud service providers, including Rackspace Inc. as well as major ...
IBM’s Summit and Sierra supercomputers ranked as world’s most powerful
The U.S. now has two machines atop the world’s supercomputer rankings, with a pair of IBM Corp.-built systems holding first and second place ahead of their Chinese competitors. The latest edition of the Top500 List shows that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summit supercomputer (pictured), which first secured the No. 1 spot in June, has ...
Oracle’s cloud adds new options for high-powered computing workloads
Oracle Corp.’s Cloud Infrastructure business is adding new bare-metal compute instances for high-performance computing workloads such as artificial intelligence and engineering simulations. The bare-metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances — meaning they ship without additional software, making them lean and thus potentially faster — announced Monday are an addition to the company’s Clustered Network. That’s a ...